The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History

The travel ban didn’t help much. There were thousands of US citizens flying back and probably hundreds of them already carrying the virus. The travel ban most likely slowed the spread down but looking at the situation today, it was insignificant.

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Post by nate_meurer » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 5:04 AM UTC

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #2

Of course no mention of the Feb 3rd travel ban.

The travel ban bought us valuable time. Or it would have. Remind me what Trump did during the following weeks?

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Post by ebcode » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

Well, the intelligence was there, but the President was not. I think the author's point is that the covid-19 outbreak is the worst presidential failure in U.S. History. But FP is probably not capable of publishing that headline.

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Post by ksk » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

Have other governments handled it any better though? Seems like most developed countries got screwed, despite having ample lead time from China..

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

ksk wrote: post #7

Have other governments handled it any better though? Seems like most developed countries got screwed, despite having ample lead time from China..

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

ksk wrote: post #7

Have other governments handled it any better though? Seems like most developed countries got screwed, despite having ample lead time from China..

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Post by blackrock » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 7:06 AM UTC

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #2

Of course no mention of the Feb 3rd travel ban.

The travel ban bought you time.

But you had to go into lockdown, and shut down the borders everywhere. This is what Trump failed to do.

The virus actually came in from Europe. And when they finally shut down travel from Europe, and everyone immediately flocked home, then this caused the east coast to explode in infected cases.

And New York was just a Petri dish, that the virus was incubating there for weeks.