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  1. Trump’s failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic didn’t begin with the administration’s inability to send out the millions of test kits and the protective medical gear for health care workers.  It didn’t start with Trump’s reckless and irresponsible messaging downplaying the crisis even as it’s worsened, nor with his mid-March insistence that social distancing measures could be lifted by Easter. It began in April 2018 — more than a year and a half before the SARS virus. The Trump administration began dismantling the team in charge of pandemic response, firing its leadership and disbanding the team in spring 2018. The cuts, along with Trump’s repeated calls to cut the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public health agencies, made it clear that the Trump wasn’t prioritizing the federal government’s ability to respond to disease outbreaks. Trump is now doing everything that he can to try and deflect blame and rewrite history. Testing is one of the most crucial steps in battling epidemics. It lets health officials identify the  infected and isolate them. They can then trace that sick person’s recent contacts to make sure those people aren’t sick and to get them into quarantine as well. March 30, Trump said, "We have done more tests, by far, than any country in the world, by far." He complained that his administration wasn't getting enough credit for overcoming what he claimed was a broken test system that he inherited. Both of those claims were blatant lies. South Korea, which has been widely praised for its response to coronavirus, tested more than 66,000 people within a week of the first community transmission within its borders. By comparison, the US took roughly three weeks to complete that many tests. And it was impossible for Trump to have inherited a broken testing system for COVID-19, when the coronavirus did not exist until late last year. "What President Obama did leave Trump, was a global health infrastructure that we had set up, informed by the lessons of the Ebola outbreak,” Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Adviser under Obama said, referring to the NSC pandemic directorate that was dismantled by the Trump in 2018. “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.” Trump has defended his record, arguing, “I’m a "businessperson." I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.” But experts argue that’s not how pandemic preparedness works, and that's definitely not how a virus works.  “You build a fire department ahead of time,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security stated. “You don’t wait for a fire.” Trump, being the stable genius that he is,  believed it was smarter to wait and put together a fire department, AFTER a five alarm fire starts.
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