U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic

U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.

The intelligence reports didn’t predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores or recommend particular steps that public health officials should take, issues outside the purview of the intelligence agencies. But they did track the spread of the virus in China, and later in other countries, and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.

Taken together, the reports and warnings painted an early picture of a virus that showed the characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that could require governments to take swift actions to contain it. But despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans. Lawmakers, too, did not grapple with the virus in earnest until this month, as officials scrambled to keep citizens in their homes and hospitals braced for a surge in patients suffering from covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

Intelligence agencies “have been warning on this since January,” said a U.S. official who had access to intelligence reporting that was disseminated to members of Congress and their staffs as well as to officials in the Trump administration, and who, along with others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information.

Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” this official said. “The system was blinking red.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...597_story.html


It’s a Trump Plague, brought on by the incompetence of the fat lying bastard and total lack of morality and ethics throughout his administration!

Mother Nature is wipings her ass with Trump and what’s left of his movement.

They knew this was coming and suppressed information so t.rump’s “numbers” wouldn’t look too bad. The POS said so himself.

I don’t wish illness on anybody. But if you’d think I this is a hoax, like your lord god king bufu originally said, then you’ll get what yous deserve, no matters what anybody said. Dumber than shit is hardwired into your tiny brains.

You hypocrites can pray.

Pray your wives don’t see your ECCIE page by accident, that is. LOLLING!

We were too busy with the impeachment fiasco to worry about things such as a virus in China.

Thanks, Democrats.

Oh you mean the same open borders people , let all in its ok ,,, this is getting like the movie Idiocy

We were too busy with the impeachment fiasco to worry about things such as a virus in China.

Thanks, Democrats. Originally Posted by Jackie S

Well, the intelligence agencies were writing reports that were being delivered to the Senate intelligence committee, Homeland security and the White House. They were warning the fat lying bastards regime a Pandemic was a reality. But the fat lying bastard believed his good bubbly Xi over the intelligence.

Call it what it is, the Trump Plague.

Oh you mean the same open borders people , let all in its ok ,,, this is getting like the movie Idiocy Originally Posted by rexdutchman

What fucking movie are you trying to reference, chucklehead?

Idiocracy? Sort yourself out, you slavering clown!

Congress could have been passing legislation to deal with the virus during January, but they were paralyzed with the impeachment hoax. That was when the President imposed a travel ban on China which everyone agrees was the best first step to slow the virus entering this country and which the demoncRATS called "racist" and "xenophobic".

If anything, it's a Pelosi plague.

On December 31, 2019, China reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in people associated with the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province.1 On January 7, 2020, Chinese health authorities confirmed that this cluster was associated with a novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV.2 Although cases were originally reported to be associated with exposure to the seafood market in Wuhan, current epidemiologic data indicate that person-to-person transmission of 2019-nCoV is occurring.3-6 As of January 30, 2020, a total of 9976 cases had been reported in at least 21 countries,7 including the first confirmed case of 2019-nCoV infection in the United States, reported on January 20, 2020. Investigations are under way worldwide to better understand transmission dynamics and the spectrum of clinical illness. This report describes the epidemiologic and clinical features of the first case of 2019-nCoV infection confirmed in the United States.


From the New England Journal of Medicine.

President Donald J. Trump Has Taken Unprecedented Steps To Respond To The Coronavirus And Protect The Health And Safety Of Americans

Healthcare

Issued on: March 11, 2020


https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings...ety-americans/


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RESTRICTING TRAVEL FROM IMPACTED AREAS: President Donald J. Trump is taking further action to curb the spread of the coronavirus to the United States from other countries.

• President Trump is issuing a proclamation under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to restrict travel to the United States from foreign nationals who have recently been in certain European countries.
  • Section 212(f) of the INA only applies to the movement of human beings, not goods or cargo.
• The restriction applies to foreign nationals who have been in the Schengen Area, 26 countries in Europe with open borders agreements, in the last 14 days.
• Those who are exempt from these restrictions, such as American citizens, will be directed to a limited number of airports where screening can take place.
• There is extensive travel back and forth between Europe that heightens the risk here in the United States.

LOOKING OUT FOR AMERICAN BUSINESSES AND WORKERS: President Donald J. Trump is committed to protecting American businesses and workers from the impacts of coronavirus.

• The President is announcing an economic assistance package to help support businesses and workers who have been harmed by this outbreak.
• President Trump has instructed the Small Business Administration (SBA) to exercise available authority to provide loans to businesses affected by the coronavirus.
  • These loans will help overcome disruptions caused by the coronavirus.
  • The President is calling on Congress to increase funding for this program by an additional $50 billion.
• The President will be instructing the Department of the Treasury to defer tax payments for certain individuals and businesses negatively impacted by the coronavirus.
  • This action will provide more than $200 billion of additional liquidity to the economy.
• President Trump is calling on Congress to immediately pass payroll tax relief.
• The President announced that he will soon be taking emergency action to provide financial relief for workers who are ill, quarantined, or caring for others due to the coronavirus.
  • The President also called on Congress to take action to extend this relief for workers.

LEADING AN AGGRESSIVE, WHOLE-OF-GOVERNMENT APPROACH: President Trump has taken unprecedented steps to protect the health of Americans in response to the coronavirus.

• The President is leveraging all of our resources to respond to the coronavirus, bringing together government and private industry in a collaborative response.
• The Trump Administration declared a public health emergency in January to bolster response efforts.
• President Trump took early action to help curb the spread of the virus from other countries to the United States, providing important time for response and preparations.
  • In January, President Trump acted quickly to restrict travel from foreign nationals traveling from China.
  • In February, the President restricted travel for individuals recently traveling from Iran.
  • The Administration put into place mandatory screening for all travelers coming into the country from Italy and South Korea.
  • Travel advisories for severely impacted areas like Italy and South Korea have been raised to their highest level.
• Today, the President directed his Administration to make general-use face masks available to our healthcare workers.
  • The Administration’s actions will help make millions of general-use respirators available to keep healthcare workers safe and mitigate transmission of the virus.
• President Trump signed into law more than $8 billion to fund response efforts.
• The Administration has taken bold steps to incentivize the development of therapeutics and vaccines to treat and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
• Working across the public and private sectors, the Trump Administration continues to drastically expand testing capacity.
  • More than 1 million tests have been distributed nationwide, with another 4 million tests being shipped out by the end of the week.
  • Testing is now available in every State lab in the country and commercial labs are now deploying tests, which will help generate a dramatic increase in availability.
• The Trump Administration has released guidance on how to keep businesses, schools, community gathering places, and families safe.
  • From the start, President Trump has made keeping the public informed a top priority.
• The Administration has announced that health plans with health savings accounts will be able to cover coronavirus testing and treatment without co-payments.

As per the usual propaganda - and Chinese apologist and useful idiots - the Lies of the fascist DPST faction is all they have.

Trump took action regarding borders 10 days after the first case of Wuhan Virus was confirmed in America. At the oppostion of Biden and the Fascist DPST party.

You know who you are - your TDS and Trump hate won't change - nor will your non-factual point of view.

revel in your Lies , J66, and ilk et al. Anyone with a brain used for thoughtful evaluation understands calling Trump a mass murderer, and excusing China and Xi's authoritarian totalitarian actions to spread the Wuhan virus are characteristics of people the Chinese call "Useful idiots"!!!
Move to China and live under the Chinese communist Party - who enforce discipline with the hollow end of 7.62.

fascist DPST's are doing their best to undermine and subvert actions to control the pandemic - and have No answers for anything to do differently - other than Impeach Trump.

Fascist DPST's opposed Trump's action vociferously - until it became so clear they were wrong that they had to change their tune.

Useful idiots - to the Chinese!

More lies??? While the nation is struggling? You are a low life 66. 66? Hmmm, almost the anti Christ but not bad enough.
Anyway, Trump was acting while congress was impeaching and that includes that little vacation when Nancy was figuring out her bed step. Trump closed down travel with China while the democrats to a person condemned it as racist. Now the very smart scientists and doctors say it was a very good thing to do but Biden is still calling it xenophobic and racist. It took two years before they began testing on a vaccine for the Swine Flu under Obama. Under Trump, 30 days.

Well, the intelligence agencies were writing reports that were being delivered to the Senate intelligence committee, Homeland security and the White House. They were warning the fat lying bastards regime a Pandemic was a reality. But the fat lying bastard believed his good bubbly Xi over the intelligence.

Call it what it is, the Trump Plague. Originally Posted by Jaxson66

And you get the total dumbass award today. You say the Senate and House committees were briefed, there for Democrats are just as liable as Republicans. To be honest I blame Democrats more because Schumer chastised Trump for Chinese travel restrictions which is the thing every country should have done.

JA666 with another NOTHING thread...you dumb lying B*****D!!

It's late March and the idiot in chief still has no clue. It's still the fake media's fault

More lies??? While the nation is struggling? You are a low life 66. 66? Hmmm, almost the anti Christ but not bad enough.

More lies for sure coming straight from the fat lying bastards mouth and his piss boys

Anyway, Trump was acting while congress was impeaching and that includes that little vacation when Nancy was figuring out her bed step.

Wrong, the fat lying bastard was ignoring the intelligence reports and focusing on his “ big deal “ with China, and his “ Crowdstrike “ conspiracy, He didn’t want to be bothered by a epidemic in China


Trump closed down travel with China while the democrats to a person condemned it as racist. Now the very smart scientists and doctors say it was a very good thing to do but Biden is still calling it xenophobic and racist

Thats Fox opinion network propaganda, Biden did call trump a racist but not for closing travel to China, he called him racist because that’s a fact.

. It took two years before they began testing on a vaccine for the Swine Flu under Obama. Under Trump, 30 days

So ?
. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

Someone somewhere should lock that fat lying bastard in quarantine at trump tower and let Pence handle this fiasco. The fat bastard does nothing but talk in riddles and circles.

And you get the total dumbass award today. You say the Senate and House committees were briefed, there for Democrats are just as liable as Republicans. To be honest I blame Democrats more because Schumer chastised Trump for Chinese travel restrictions which is the thing every country should have done.


Public health experts have criticized China for being slow to respond to the coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan, and have said precious time was lost in the effort to slow the spread. At a White House briefing Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said officials had been alerted to the initial reports of the virus by discussions that the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had with Chinese colleagues on Jan. 3.

The warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies increased in volume toward the end of January and into early February, said officials familiar with the reports. By then, a majority of the intelligence reporting included in daily briefing papers and digests from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA was about covid-19, said officials who have read the reports. Originally Posted by farmstud60

I said? Expert heath officials made that statement. You’re the one afflicted by the raging dumbass.

I said? Expert heath officials made that statement. You’re the one afflicted by the raging dumbass. Originally Posted by Jaxson66

You ain't got shit to say about Trump's travel ban and bullosey response to it...You sir are the LYING BASTARD!!