Maybe Biden does not have an image problem which seemed to have tarnished Hillary Clinton. Uncle Joe seems more friendly and less formal. Is this what it takes to win the general?

Except that the Ukraine scandal that got Trump impeached directly involves him.

HE RESPONDED EARLY?!?!

Good lord dude.

Late January was relatively early. The WHO actually criticized him for it.

Many countries did travel restrictions. They also had containment measures inside the country in the early stage. The US government botched testing capacity. Trump slashed funding to the CDC and shut down the global pandemic response team in 2018.

He didn’t actually slash funding, he just proposed slashing funding in 2021, but it got shot down by congress.

The cuts started in 2018, as the White House focused on eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. In March of that year, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded.

That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was forced to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% as its funding for the program began to run out. The agency, at the time, opted to focus on 10 priority countries and scale back in others, including China.

Also cut was the Complex Crises Fund, a $30 million emergency response pool that was at the secretary of state’s disposal to deploy disease experts and others in the event of a crisis. (The fund was created by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)

Overall in 2018, Trump called for $15 billion in reduced health spending that had previously been approved, as he looked at increasing budget deficits, cutting the global disease-fighting budgets of the CDC, National Security Council (NSC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) in the process.

The effects of those cuts are being felt today. While the CDC announced plans to test people with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19, those have been delayed and only three of the country’s 100 public-health labs have been able to test for coronavirus. The administration’s request for additional funding came roughly two weeks after officials said HHS was almost out of funding for its response to the virus.

Most of the funding comes from a one-time, five-year emergency package that Congress approved to respond to the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa. About $600 million was awarded to the CDC to help countries prevent infectious-disease threats from becoming epidemics. That money is slated to run out by September 2019. Despite statements from President Trump and senior administration officials affirming the importance of controlling outbreaks, officials and global infectious-disease experts are not anticipating that the administration will budget additional resources.

If more resources are used on coronavirus, less resources are used on other illnesses. So there is a cost to being bullish on coronavirus. I assume the cost of what’s happening in Italy is as much the people sick with other things who can’t get treatment from overwhelmed hospitals.

when did she lose twice?

also, that would make sense if Biden was charismatic and drew voters from Bernie. but he's not. they were just sexist.

Hilarious to see Gabbard finish below candidates who have dropped out in many states. She did not even get 1% of vote. Why the fuck is she wasting time and who is paying for it if she is not a Russian Spy as alleged.

lol that's not what I'm saying.

Hillary drove a lot of people away in her own right, etc etc etc. But people flocked from her to Bernie, and then BACK from Bernie to Biden. You'd have to be an idiot to not see the sexism.