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Like why didn't they send people who had a few years ago dealt with Ebola. It's not like we didn't have people who went over there to help or people who treated infected people stateside --granted Ebola transmission is different but you still need PPE, but people know the protocol in practice, not just reading about how to wear PPE.

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Those people were fired by the Trump administration in 2018.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

It's like I'm living in a simulation or the movie Idiocracy and I desperately want out.

Hope you have plenty of guns to kill the zombies

Not sure why you’re being downvoted because that’s the exactly correct answer.

The previous administration converted the highly successful infrastructure they built up while responding to the Ebola virus into permanent infrastructure which was quickly dismantled by the current administration.

Because any suggestion that somehow politics and politicians are directly responsible for bad shit gets instantly down voted to oblivion on HN.

It could be because he is misrepresenting the content of the article.

Quoting: "funding for the CDC’s global disease outbreak prevention efforts had been reduced by 80%, including funding for the agency’s efforts in China. But that was the result of the anticipated depletion of previously allotted funding, not a direct cut by the Trump administration.

Since January 2019, actual funding (vs. requested/proposed funding) is controlled by the House leadership of the opposition party.

how exactly is it controlled by the "House leadership of the opposition party." when bills need to pass the senate too, and the republicans are flat out refusing to pass anything.

All spending bills originate in the House.

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