"We are at a critical point as a #global #community. #Climate disasters are worsening, #pandemics remain a threat, digital divides are growing and regressive regimes are rising.
None of these challenges can be addressed by half of society. When #women lead, priorities change: #wellbeing is valued and #inclusivity prioritised."
“President Obama's administration, learning from the 2009 H1N1 outbreak and the 2014 Ebola crisis, created a detailed pandemic preparedness infrastructure. They left behind a 69-page "Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents." Page nine specifically warned about novel coronaviruses. The playbook contained step-by-step advice on questions to ask, decisions to make, and which federal agencies were responsible for what. It included sample documents for inter-agency coordination. Obama officials even conducted an in-person pandemic response exercise with incoming Trump officials in January 2017.
“Trump ignored all of it.
“On January 22, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, his administration took down the science advisory website and deleted all pandemic preparedness reports.” —Patti Vasquez, progressive Chicago radio host and candidate for Illinois state office
#PublicHealth #InfectiousDiseases #vaccines #CoronaVirus #COVID #pandemics
#Pandemics last for decades, not months.
Improperly handled, pandemics can become needlessly endemic.
#Diseases that could have been wiped out or decimated are threatening to make roaring comebacks.
This is what #gop #maga #republican #conservatism #fascism has brought to the entire world. #superstition #ignorance #suffering #death