Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
White House deviated from pandemic plan



This is another attempt to blame Trump, and as I'll demonstrate with quotes, later paragraphs in the article itself demonstrate that you can't just follow a textbook plan. The plan has to adapt to the situation. i.e., No battle plan survives the first day of actual combat. The plan has to adapt to new realities of the situation.

 Originally Posted By: from the article
The 69-page document, obtained by Politico, lays out step-by-step responses to a pandemic, such as implementing directives on workplace safety and procurement of safety equipment.


Politico = offshoot of the Washington Post = blame-Trump/hate-Trump media, and constructing a narrative to fit that agenda.

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Under the NSC timeline, the Trump administration in late January should have begun issuing directives aimed at "coordination of workforce protection activities including ... [personal protective equipment] determination, procurement and deployment," according to the report. Such actions have only been recently implemented.


Ah. That would have been while the Democrats completely shut down all legislation for two months with phony Presidential impeachment House hearings and Senate impeachment, with no chance of success and no evidence, just to smear the president?
Yeah, that gave Trump plenty of free time to mull all his options with an emerging pandemic. At that point China had still not revealed just how infectious this virus is. We found that out in February when South Korea shared their research with the CDC and NIH. That's when we found out just how virulent this new Covid-19 strain is.

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A request for congressional funding to combat the pandemic, the timeline further dictates, should have taken place a month before it happened. President Trump signed into law two bills responding to the coronavirus epidemic in March and is expected to sign a third aimed at providing an economic stimulus in the days ahead.


That is jaw-droppingly evasive of the fact that Democrats have acted as an obstuction to swift legislation, and that Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) flatout said this was a time to try and ram through Democrat ideological wish-list spending that had nothing to do with the Covid-19 crisis, such as funding abortion, sanctuary cities, and allowing same-day registration and voting that enables voter-fraud in favor of Democrats.
Even when Trump aggressively pursued legislation to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, Democrats tried to shake him down and insert all these other Democrat projects, holding up the legislation. When a bipartisan deal was already negotiated, Pelosi came in and wrecked it, delaying legislation for roughly another week.

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An official with the NSC told Politico in a statement that the report had been replaced by newer policies taking into account lessons from the spread of Ebola in Africa.

“We are aware of the document, although it’s quite dated and has been superseded by strategic and operational biodefense policies published since,” the official said. “The plan we are executing now is a better fit, more detailed, and applies the relevant lessons learned from the playbook and the most recent Ebola epidemic in the [Democratic Republic of the Congo] to COVID-19.”


That's pretty clear confirmation that the plan couldn't be implemented as it was on paper, but had to be modified and adapted to new conditions as the Covid-19 crisis has unfolded. It is in polar opposition to the click-bait headline of the article itself.