Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Illinois governor on FEMA supply: It's like the wild west out here" video.

  1. The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing?  So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do.. “I think, importantly, what Obama did leave Trump is a global health infrastructure that we had set up informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,” Ben Rhodes said before pointing to a National Security Council (NSC) pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump administration in 2018. And what we did is set up, in the White House, ... an office that was responsible for managing pandemics, managing global health threats that was shut down two years ago by President Trump. And when you don’t have an office like that, you don’t have dedicated people inside the White House who are ensuring that information is acted upon. When you see an outbreak in a place like Wuhan, China, you want people in the White House who are thinking about what needs to be done right away so that you don’t get behind the curve, which is what happened in this White House. You need a president who’s willing to hear bad news, willing to understand that they’re going to have to focus on something that they may have not intended to focus on. President trump clearly did not want to hear that bad news when he heard about the outbreak in coronavirus,” --Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under President Obama. Trump said that COVID-19  “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided the world.”  His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of disbelief. Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump’s decision in 2018 to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House, charged with preparing for WHEN, NOT if, another pandemic would hit the nation. The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense survived the transition from President Obama to Trump in 2017. Trump’s elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. “One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,” Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed.. She said the directorate was set up to be the “smoke alarm” and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire — “all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.”
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  2. President Obama said that when making a decision, it's helpful not to watch TV or read social media.That's because that "creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment," He also said it's important to "have a team with a diversity of opinion" to help with making decisions and providing context. President Obama had two important tips for any president to help make good decisions. First, Obama said, you should "make sure you have a team with a diversity of opinion sitting around you." "The other thing that's helpful is not watching TV or reading social media," he said. "Those are two things I would advise, if you're our president, not to do. It creates a lot of noise and clouds your judgment." Obama spoke about entering office during the Great Recession, and he said that the presidency is like "drinking out of a fire hose." "That's doubly true when you're in the middle of a crisis," Obama said. A president can't absorb all the information on their own when making a decision, so it's important to have teams to provide information and context about the problem, he said. "Then what you have to do is create a process where you have confidence that whatever data is out there has been sifted and sorted," Obama said. Obama said that because there's so much information out there now, including "opinion wrapped up as fact" and clickbait, it's important to filter through the noise. "What it does mean is that if you are susceptible to worrying about what are the polls saying or what might this person say about this topic, or you start mistaking the intensity of the passion of a very small subset of people with a broader sense about your country or people who know something about the topic, that will sway your decision-making in an unhealthy way," "I am asking you to hold fast to that faith that is written into our founding documents...that ideal whisper...by slaves and abolitionist, that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders, and those who marched for justice. That creed...reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battle fields, to the surface of the moon. A creed at the core of every American, who's story is not yet written....YES WE CAN!!" --President Barack Obama
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