Alert: The Federal
Government Is In Charge of Managing the Coming
Coronavirus Pandemic
The USA
is at threshold of a major crisis but Americans are likely unaware of the magnitude
of the danger due to Federal Government incompetence. The CDC has totally
botched our ability even to test for the coronavirus, so we really have no clue
how many coronavirus cases we have and we lack the means currently to test for
it in the coming days:
"Expanded screening for the
coronavirus has been postponed amid issues with a test developed by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the Trump administration had
planned to expand screening to various state and local public health labs, only
three of more than 100 such labs nationwide have verified the CDC’s test for
use, Politico reported. The CDC has also had to postpone its plans
to screen samples collected during flu surveillance for the virus using public
health labs in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told the
publication further delays could leave public health officials ill-equipped to
detect scattered cases as they accumulate." - https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/483980-issues-with-cdc-coronavirus-test-pose-challenges-for-expanded-screening
The Federal Government malfeasance
is worse than that though, as partially explained in the article at http://www.startribune.com/could-u-s-have-moved-faster-on-coronavirus-response/567634592/
:
“As
the world grapples to contain a troubling new strain of the coronavirus, an
early criticism of the U.S. response has come from an influential critic: Dr.
Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration. Gottlieb
is alarmed that this country’s capacity to test for the pathogen is lagging as
the outbreak spreads from China to 27 other countries. It is imperative that
Congress and the Trump administration act on his concerns to ensure the nation
has the readiness and resources to contain this new public health threat. In a
long Twitter thread posted Sunday, Gottlieb said swifter, broader screening is
needed nationally to detect coronavirus, which has sickened more than 28,000
people in China. The “Catch 22,” as Gottlieb called it, is that so far, only
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been able to run the tests for
this virus, creating a bottleneck. For testing to occur elsewhere, leaders of
two key federal agencies must sign off to allow the CDC to share technology.
There’s generally a two-part process during outbreaks. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
first has to determine whether there’s a public health emergency or “significant
potential” for one. Once that decision is made, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) can issue an emergency authorization allowing testing
beyond the CDC. The Department of Health and Human Services finally declared
the public health emergency on Jan. 31 — a full month after the outbreak was reported
in Wuhan, China. ...Tensions between Verma and HHS Sec. Alex
Azar have repeatedly made headlines,
raising serious questions about how well the agency is running.”
More on that Federal Government
feud that involves male-female and white-nonwhite conflict is at https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/11/azar-verma-trump-082816
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Federal
law does not allow any party other than the Federal Government's CDC to control
for coronavirus testing, but the Federal Government has shown it is
incompetent to administer the program.
This follows the bungled return of
coronavirus-infected parties which had been on the cruise ship in Japan:
“CDC’s principal deputy director, Anne Schuchat, reportedly argued against letting them board the
planes. She expressed concern about infection control and noted that the agency
had already assured the weary cruise ship passengers that they would not be evacuated
with anyone who had tested positive for the virus or showed symptoms of
COVID-19. Anthony Fauci,
head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reportedly
backed up the stance, noting the concerns were valid and should be considered. But Robert Kadlec, assistant secretary
for preparedness and response for the Department of Health and Human Services,
argued for letting them fly. He noted that the evacuation aircraft, two Boeing
747s, were already equipped with infectious disease doctors and areas enclosed
by 3-meter-high plastic walls to keep infected passengers. The US State
Department ultimately made the decision to let the infected passengers return
to the US on the aircraft.” - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/coronavirus-patients-flew-to-us-after-cdc-explicitly-recommended-against-it/
Meanwhile, there is growing evidence
of the pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
:
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The
move empowers the government to lock down cities, as Italy imposes its own
regional lockdown and cases rise in Iran.
The spike in South Korea, along with rising numbers in Iran
and Italy, adds to fears that the window to avert a global pandemic is
narrowing.”
One example of the extreme
challenge this likely pandemic presents:
The official name of this coronavirus is SARS-CoV-2. The official name of the disease it
causes is: COVID-19. "The
evidence from patient samples suggests that 2019-nCov (SARS-CoV-2) is
actively acquiring new mutations that may enable it to escape antiviral drugs.
This raises a serious challenge to the development of conventional drugs and of
vaccines. The same limitations apply to other deadly RNA viruses such as SARS
or MERS." From: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0290-0#Fig1
Financial
markets are increasingly taking note, such as at https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-sink-on-growing-concern-of-outbreaks-economic-impact-2020-02-23
:
“U.S. stock futures sink on growing
concern of outbreak’s economic impact...The global spread of the virus in
patients with no links to China suggests “things are about to get extremely
problematic, and market conditions could get exponentially worse this week,”
Stephen Innes, chief market strategist with AxiTrader,
wrote in a note Sunday.”
A 2012 CDC report at https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/APHL_Conference_LEI_Report_508.pdf
anticipated some of the problems that are now upon us: “Public health
laboratory directors work in a highly dynamic environment. In recent years,
most have experienced serious financial pressures, driven largely by state and
local governments’ responses to the economic recession. Many public health
laboratories’ budget and staffing numbers have been
cut substantially, and, as a result, some have stopped performing certain
tests. CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are
concerned that many public health laboratories are in danger of losing the
capacity to perform critically needed tests and services. This has the
potential to impair the ability of public health authorities to respond
effectively to conventional health risks as well as to public health
emergencies, such as influenza pandemics.”
That report goes on to present the Federal and State barriers to sharing
of information in some of its complexity.
The centralized Federal Government structure was misconceived, and the USA should return to the Articles of Confederation, along with partitioning out the “blue areas” of the USA and discarding political correctness.
Hence the Goal of our Cause is to partition out
of the USA those liberal blue areas in a sea of red areas that remain part of
the USA and to restore to the USA of Anglo-American Patriot
States the Articles
of Confederation as our national constitution. The USA was founded as a
Confederation of Anglo-American
Patriot
States, not as a centralized “global
nation” empire ruled by elites. Yet progressively the former founding
vision has been replaced by the latter political reality. This Cause seeks to return America to its
historic identity, an identity described in historian Dr. Samuel P.
Huntington’s book Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity.
America’s
first national flag (the Continental Colors or Grand Union flag) is the
symbol of our enterprise precisely because it reflects our national identity:
National Facebook Group Advocating A
Return to the Articles of Confederation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ReturnToArticlesOfConfederation/
Committees of Correspondence by State: http://www.puritans.net/articles/State%20Committees%20of%20Correspondence%20by%20State.htm
Index of Articles related to this Cause: http://www.puritans.net/articles/indexarticlesconfederation.htm
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