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SvennoJ on 11 May 2020
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Pemalite said:

I already outlined Australias timeline and responses prior in this thread, we were already making moves even in January to combat the virus with screenings and building testing kits and stockpiling PPE and so forth, we didn't have full lockdown until March though, but our prior mitigation attempts were proving successful for that time period. -  Wikipedia isn't providing the full comprehensive view on this I am afraid.

Being in the Emergency Services I see more than what the general public does on this front.

I can't find any info for Canada, however that timeline for the USA starts in 2017.


And yep, it's putting the blame on Trump

https://www.justsecurity.org/69650/timeline-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-and-u-s-response/

January-February 2020: U.S. intelligence agencies issue  over a dozen detailed warnings  about the threat of the virus in the President’s Daily Brief, and issue classified reports about the virus; senior U.S. officials begin to form a task force.

The U.S. intelligence community includes a detailed explanation of the potential cataclysmic disease in Wuhan, China―based in part on wire intercepts, computer intercepts, and satellite images―in the President’s Daily Brief in early January.

U.S. intelligence community classified reports track the spread of the virus, warn that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the outbreak, and warn of global danger from the coronavirus. They reportedly issue over a dozen confidential reports in the president’s daily briefing, colloquially known as the “PDB,” that warn about the lethal toll of the virus and explain that China is hiding information about the magnitude of the threat.  

(Note: An official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has denied the reports, stating “The detail of this is not true.”)

In early January, deputy national security advisor Matthew Pottinger receives a call from a friend, a Hong Kong epidemiologist who informs him of a ferocious outbreak of a new virus that has spread far more quickly than the Chinese government is  admitting. The epidemiologist also explains that the virus is spread by asymptomatic individuals. In ensuing days, Pottinger held the view that the coronavirus problem was far worse than the Chinese government was admitting.

Senior U.S. officials, including CDC Director Robert Redfield, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, form a task force dedicated to dealing with the novel virus.

“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it,” a U.S. official with access to the classified briefings told the Washington Post. “The system was blinking red.”


Lots of good info in that link. Great read of everything that went wrong with one big problem in the center of it all, starting with a T.