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I'm curious, would HRC have done better in the pandemic?  It's holy writ here that Trump is responsible for the entire American pandemic.  It is clear that Obama's team would have handled it perfectly, just as they handled the H1N1 pandemic perfectly:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4861530/ron-klein

From Ron Klein:

"I was in the White House in 2009 and 2010, I was working for VP Biden, I lived through the H1N1 response as a WH staffer.  Bunch of really great, really talented people working on it and we did every possible thing wrong.  60 million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time and it's just purely a fortuity that this wasn't one of the great mass casualty events in American history.  It had nothing to do with us doing anything right.  It just had to do with luck...imagine a virus with different lethality and you can just do the math on that."

Don't know what it says about Hillary, but it says a lot about the administration in power at the time that given the very, very poor response outlined in this quote, nothing was done. As I have been saying all along, the CDC knew about and published papers on their own shortcomings. They weren't the only ones. It was clear our pandemic response wasn't where it needed to be on a state and local level either. The only way you got tested was if they were already admitting you to the hospital.
It must be understood that every administration has to make trade-offs. Fixing this problem would have cost money and frankly was not much in the public mind, because in this case it turned out to be "just the flu". Like many problems our nation has encountered, the opportunity to fix it before it became a disaster was not acted upon. We are paying the price now.

[Goose]

I'm curious, would HRC have done better in the pandemic?  It's holy writ here that Trump is responsible for the entire American pandemic.  It is clear that Obama's team would have handled it perfectly, just as they handled the H1N1 pandemic perfectly:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4861530/ron-klein

From Ron Klein:

"I was in the White House in 2009 and 2010, I was working for VP Biden, I lived through the H1N1 response as a WH staffer.  Bunch of really great, really talented people working on it and we did every possible thing wrong.  60 million Americans got H1N1 in that period of time and it's just purely a fortuity that this wasn't one of the great mass casualty events in American history.  It had nothing to do with us doing anything right.  It just had to do with luck...imagine a virus with different lethality and you can just do the math on that."

Don't know what it says about Hillary, but it says a lot about the administration in power at the time that given the very, very poor response outlined in this quote, nothing was done. As I have been saying all along, the CDC knew about and published papers on their own shortcomings. They weren't the only ones. It was clear our pandemic response wasn't where it needed to be on a state and local level either. The only way you got tested was if they were already admitting you to the hospital.
It must be understood that every administration has to make trade-offs. Fixing this problem would have cost money and frankly was not much in the public mind, because in this case it turned out to be "just the flu". Like many problems our nation has encountered, the opportunity to fix it before it became a disaster was not acted upon. We are paying the price now.