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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
--Charles Darwin
"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."
--Wayne Dyer
Like most Americans, Public health and national security experts shook their heads in disbelief when Trump said the coronavirus “came out of nowhere” and “blindsided the world.”
Experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years and criticized the Trump administration’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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