WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Donald 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.
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WNU Editor: The US intel community wants to look good, but I am not impressed. Many non-intel sources were raising concerns on what was happening in China in January. This blog's first post on what was happening in China was on January 20 .... Deadly Coronavirus From China Has Global Health Officials On Alert, and was then followed with daily posts for two weeks under the hash-tag Wuhan Coronavirus, that was then followed by the hash-tag Covid-19 when the official name was designated for this pandemic.
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The govt knew. the govt was warned. specialists knew and told us another virus going to happen...Trump is where the buck stopped
The simulation’s sobering results — contained in a draft report dated October 2019 that has not previously been reported — drove home just how underfunded, underprepared and uncoordinated the federal government would be for a life-or-death battle with a virus for which no treatment existed.
The draft report, marked “not to be disclosed,” laid out in stark detail repeated cases of “confusion” in the exercise. Federal agencies jockeyed over who was in charge. State officials and hospitals struggled to figure out what kind of equipment was stockpiled or available. Cities and states went their own ways on school closings.
Many of the potentially deadly consequences of a failure to address the shortcomings are now playing out in all-too-real fashion across the country. And it was hardly the first warning for the nation’s leaders. Three times over the past four years the U.S. government, across two administrations, had grappled in depth with what a pandemic would look like, identifying likely shortcomings and in some cases recommending specific action.
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event 201 financed by Bill Gates, WHO, THE PHARMA CO's, & the John Hopkins Bloomberg Health Institute had their pandemic exercise only after the CDC + Department of Health and Human Services published their Oct 2019 report on their pandemic war excersise "Crimson Contagion". So it looks like everybody knew to great detail... And then there's the accidental virus release at Fort Detrick biolab 4, which the Chinese are saying was released + spread by the gigantic global war games excersise "DEFENDER EUROPE 20" the largest in 25 years with over 37,000 US members along with thousands of NAto members.
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