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"…of the many things that kept me up at night as national security advisor and in fact still keep me up at night, in terms of things that could go badly wrong for our national security. Very near the top of my list has always been the threat of a pandemic,… "
Susan Rice, Obama's Former National Security Advisor, Breaks Down
The Pandemic Playbook Left For The Trump Administration
[FB]Live Interview - April 16
We are speaking to former national security advisor Susan Rice about why the US should have been more prepared to handle this pandemic and what we need to do now.
<she left behind a 69-page pandemic playbook as a part of a full package to prepare the Trump administration for an outbreak but adds, "it wasn't a priority for the Trump administration."
<the US wasted two months before properly responding to the crisis which cost the country greatly in terms of lives and economic loss.
<"We can't begin to rationally talk about reopening when less than 1% of Americans have been tested and many people who seek testing still can't get it."
<We underinvest in protecting against risks we can't see and pay extraordinary costs when they strike.
<Short-termism is why Trump thought it was ok to submit successive budgets to Congress … that cut CDC and NIH budgets.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-live-former-national-security-180317165.html