Pandemic Anniversary: Why Did American Leadership Wait So along?

 March 11, 2020 was the official shutdown day, but it should have been much earlier

By this day last year, I had been following alarming citizen Twitter accounts in Wuhan since early in January 2020. They graphically revealed devastation. My anxiety was off the charts. By March, these Twitter accounts were methodically being shut down.

There is not a single Twitter account remaining of nearly 100 from Wuhan that I started to follow in January 2020 to track the craziness of the disease and ground-level responses to it. Most were gone by the end of March 2020.

Why did America wait so long to respond? The handwriting was on the wall—in science and all over social media.

America could have—and should have—shut down long before March 11, 2020, in order to prevent loss of life and contain the disease. The intel was there. The science was there. The devastation in China was on social media. Our national leadership was either asleep at the wheel or in full denial mode.

Did America’s vast taxpayer-funded international intelligence resources—CIA, NSA, etc.—fail to alert the Trump regime of the dramatic growth and devastation of COVID19? Or, did Trump ignore or suppress it? 

Over 515,000 citizen deaths later, Americans deserve to know fully exactly what happened.