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 .

 

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   :

 

“Coronavirus Live Updates: South Korea Raises Threat Alert Level Live Updates: South Korea Raises Threat Alert Level

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 .