No, we aren’t. Because Trump was butt hurt because the CDC, NIH, and WHO made him look bad during the last pandemic, they were among the first to be DOGEed. ONe thing Trump did right in 2020 was fast track the vaccine that none of his supporters and his HHS secretary trust.
By doing that we shut down our ability to fast track anything. And if, as it turns out, that Covid was because of a “lab leak in China”, should China “accidentally” have another leak of a new virus, we are unprepared to do anything about it. Short of cross our fingers and hope we achieve “herd immunity” sooner rather than later. And Turmp is succeeding in pissing off our friends, one has to wonder what China might do if he pisses them off.
They made themselves look bad.
What had the WHO done about this?
They helped fast track the vaccine. Like it or not, deaths dropped dramatically because of it. Fuck masks and lockdowns. We no longer have the ability to fast track a vaccine, and in today’s climate they likely wouldn’t even try since we have an antivaxxer as head of HHS. And think China knows this.
Without Project Warpspeed we would probably still be in testing phase.
That’s right. And Trump basically shut down the organizations that made it possible.
Those organizations said it would take years to develop a vaccine.
Well, isn’t this unfortunate.