>>8681430 (PB) Re: Stephanie Murphy (D-Florida) requesting 'investigation' of PDJT administration's handling of COVID.
"She has claimed that President George W. Bush appointed her as a lead operator in responding to the Avian Flu crisis in 2005". In her own press release, she says she worked at the DoD at that time:
"Let me explain. From 2004 to 2008, under President George W. Bush, I worked at the Department of Defense. In 2005, when I was covering the Southeast Asia portfolio, I helped lead the U.S. government’s response to the threat posed by H5N1, known as the avian flu virus.
At the time, avian flu had killed scores of people in Asia. As a government, we were worried about the virus spreading to other parts of the world and especially to the United States. We were concerned about both the national security implications and the public health implications."
About that blurb. There wasn't a single case of H5N1 in the USofA (cap related). Her bio is a little sketchy - I'd be asking lotsa questions if she came in for an interview. How does anyone go from getting a masters degree in Foreign Affairs to a security specialist lead(ing) the USG response to the threat posted by H5N1 one year later?
MURPHY, STEPHANIE, a Representative from Florida;
born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 16, 1978;
B.A., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., 2000;
M.S.F.S., Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 2004;
consultant; businesswoman; foreign affairs specialist, United States Department of Defense, 2004-2008;
faculty, Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., 2014-2016;
elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2017-present)
Then there's that whole GB $7 Billion dollar request to consider…. Seems to this anon that COVID had a couple of dress rehearsals.
H5N1 study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4933299/
H5N1 epidemiology Map: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4933299/figure/F2/
Murphy press release: http://archive.vn/UKelO
Murphy bio: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M001202
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_effects_of_H5N1
Bush pandemic plan: https://web.archive.org/web/20090111210653/http://www.whitehouse.gov/homeland/nspi.pdf