Trump Responded To The Coronavirus Outbreak Within One Month — Obama Waited SIX MONTHS With H1N1

It’s amazing the kind of catastrophes the left wishes upon our nation just in hopes that their party stays in power. It has nothing to do with looking out for the American people, so long as the ‘bad orange man’ doesn’t have authority.

There were several ‘Tweeters’ suggesting that the China travel ban was racist and a ‘war against immigrants,’ like the lovely Chuck Schumer stated:

How the heck else is Trump supposed to protect the American people from this virus without such a task force? I still have yet to hear a sound suggestion from the left.

I feel like shutting down the border and placing a travel ban is a logical start to containment and quarantine processes.

But the Internet is a silly place that forgets NOTHING.

People are so quick to judge Trump’s every move but forget we have an arsenal of all the douche canoe-y stuff Obama did or DIDN’T do!

*waves arms like I’m presenting the Wheel of Fortune phrase reveal*

Y’all remember the swine flu – otherwise known as H1N1? It was first detected in the U.S. in April of 2009. It took six months and 1,000 Americans dying from H1N1 for Obama to finally declare a public health emergency.

However, when China reported the Coronavirus to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, President Trump declared a public health emergency one month later, on January 31, 2020.

According to Red State:

[H1N1] began to spread immediately and President Obama addressed Americans briefly (1:27) at the end of April. He said that U.S. health officials were monitoring the situation. He recommended that if a student becomes infected, his or her school should consider closing down temporarily to contain the disease. Obama said he had requested $1.5 billion from Congress to support the government’s efforts. Finally, he called on Americans to take the same precautions they would to prevent any other flu.

They had far more important things on their mind at the time. They were preoccupied with passing The Affordable Care Act in the spring of 2009 and the swine flu was an unwanted distraction.

By October, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC told CNN, “millions of people in the United States have been infected, at least 20,000 have been hospitalized and more than 1,000 have died.”

President Obama finally declared H1N1 a public health emergency on October 24, 2009. He issued a statement which read, “The 2009 H1N1 pandemic continues to evolve. The rates of illness continue to rise rapidly within many communities across the nation, and the potential exists for the pandemic to overburden health care resources in some localities. Thus, in recognition of the continuing progression of the pandemic, and in further preparation as a nation, we are taking additional steps to facilitate our response.”

On November 12, 2009, the CDC reported an estimated 22 million Americans had been infected with H1N1 and 4,000 Americans had died.

Fast forward to 2020…

On January 31, 2020, President Trump declared a public health emergency. USA Today reported that “quarantines of Americans who have recently been to certain parts of China” had been set up, “the first quarantine order issued by the federal government in over 50 years.”

The Trump Administration took decisive action to minimize the impact of the coronavirus in the first month. The disease had been declared a public health emergency one month before the first U.S. death. Despite the unwarranted criticism coming from the left, the government appears to be focused on protecting Americans.