The thug Obama’s bogus claims of a MAGICAL PLAYBOOK that could have saved 400,000 lives in the USA

All through the covid pandemic, Obama and his democratic cohort insisted on lockdowns.

Now he tells us that he had a playbook that could have saved 400,000 lives in the USA.

THIS IS WHAT HE SAID [source]

[01:19] I’ll give you just one other example….

I had been talking to scientists for a while and so in my last year in office. We put together a Playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic. Because scientists had been saying with globalization and travel etc rising populations, that at some point there was going to be a pandemic.

And so, I said to my team – we’ve got to have a plan. Just like you do for hurricanes or for tornadoes or natural disasters. So we put together this whole Playbook. And we practiced the Playbook.

We’d get all the agencies. [02:07] This is how we’re going to respond. This is how to make sure that the public health systems in all the states are working. Here’s how we we’re going to think about the schools. And when Donald Trump came in, we gave over this Playbook to them. But the point is he ignored it. And three years later a pandemic hits.

Now I want to be really be fair on this. I want everybody to pay attention. No matter who was president at the time this was going to be a problem. This was a generational pandemic.

[02:56] People were going to get sick. People were going to die. We didn’t have a vaccine right away. Businesses were going to have to shut down for a while. Travel was going to be restricted.

But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 40% lower than it was here in the United States. So just do the math. That’s more than 400,000 people. People’s grandmothers, people’s fathers, people’s moms – who would have been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him.

[03:43] It might have been somebody in your family that could have been impacted. So, if somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference –  having somebody competent, somebody who cares about you, who listens to ordinary people, who listens to people who are experts in these areas.

If you if you hear somebody say it doesn’t matter, it does matter, and at some point it will make a difference to them.

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NOW FOR THE TRUTH

Where’s the playbook? Here. Click to download.

What does it say?

1. BORDER SCREENING NOT RECOMMENDED: “The issue of border screening is complex and requires legal and operational consultations and a public health determination on its value as a tool to slow the spread of diseases vis a vis harm to travel, trade, and ability to mount a response within affected region. It is rarely appropriate to put border screening measures in place at an elevated threat level.”

But then it has an appendix in which basically contradicts this position : “Issuing security directives or emergency amendments to place restrictions on flights entering or operating in the United States” and “Restricting the arrival of conveyances or individuals from affected country(ies)” – BASICALLY, BORDER CLOSURE.

2. THERE’S NO MASS QUARNTINE (LOCKDOWNS).
However, it mentions limited use of quarantine:
– isolating ill passengers and/or placing exposed passengers under quarantine

BUT ONLY IN THE EARLY STAGE:
a.Voluntary home isolation of the ill and home quarantine of the exposed
b.Dismissal of students from schools
http://c.Social distancing measures, such as telework
d.Cancellation of large public gatherings.

However, “there may be legitimate extenuating circumstances that lead DOD to take stricter quarantine and isolation measures for U.S. forces.” – it doesn’t say what such measures might be.

I asume Barack Obama is saying that USA should NOT have locked down. If so, his speech doesn’t say that clearly.

OR – AND THIS IS MOST LIKELY – HE NEVER READ THE PLAYBOOK (nor did Trump). Anyone reading the playbook would be totally confused, anyway. It is very similar to standard pandemic plans but doesn’t have the caution against border closures found in the 2019 WHO pandemic guidelines. And no referencing. Plus, by now I know that the WHO guidelines are piece of garbage, as well.

BASICALLY, PUBLIC HEALTH IS COMPLETE SHAMBLES – almost everything it says is a pile of crap.

We need to completely redo public health from scratch.