George W. Bush in BusinessInsider.com


On Health Care: Created 381-page pandemic plan for emergency response

[In 2005, a decade prior to the MERS virus epidemic], President George W. Bush was at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. As he read "The Great Influenza," by historian John M. Barry, he was shaken by the story of a mysterious plague that killed millions worldwide [the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919]. He feared it˙could happen again.

He told his Homeland Security team, "Look, this happens every 100 years. We need a national strategy." In a November 5, 2005 speech outlining the plan, he said, "if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today." The administration created a 381-page plan that would outline the proper responses to possible virus outbreaks.

On Jan. 28, 2020, Trump's DVA medica advisor Carter Mecher pushed for immediate social distancing for cornoavirrus. Mecher was one of the medical advisers who, in 2006, had conceived for George W. Bush a pandemic response strategy of "social distancing."

Source: Business Insider, YouTube video "Totally Under Control" Sep 14, 2020

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