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So what did he say 20 minutes before or 20 minutes after that would change my mind? I do want to take things in full context. Why shouldn't I take issue with a link that someone else posted? I've seen a lot of Fauci talking and he just seem far more circumspect that you or Magox seem to think.

"I believe they can, we will have and there will be enough tests to allow us to take this country safely through phase one". Yeah, that's what I am hung up on. Future vs present text. I'm not buying your spin.

If the masks were replenished 10 years ago, they would have been thrown away 5 years ago as they have a 5 year shelf life. Obviously math isn't your strong suite.

You are the living embodiment.

I see you dodged the question.

Fauci didn't say that.

10 years ago! That is laughable. What about the intervening years under GOP control?

Looks like you don't understand who controlled which houses when, what they proposed for funding versus what the Executive Branch requested

Well you quoted yourself, so it would seem.

Sheesh, your talking to yourself.

Read previous posts FYI.

Fauci didn't say we are ready for Phase 1. He listed what was necessary for Phase 1.

Here is Magox's quote Where exactly did Fauci say we were ready for phase 1? Magox couldn't answer it and I'm sure your can't either.

The Republicans controlled the House from 2011 - 2019. Facts suck.

The materials in the stockpile have life spans. For the N95 mask, that is 5 years. Republicans controlled both houses over that time when Obama was president and Trump asked for less than was appropriated. Facts suck.

I think you don't have a clue what Fauci was saying.

The N95 mask has a shelf life of 5 years. Given the amount of time Trump has been in office, this supply should have been pretty much replenished. HHS under the Obama administration had a contract to produce 1.5 million masks per day. It died under Trump. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/federal-government-spent-millions-to-ramp-up-mask-readiness-but-that-isnt-helping-now/2020/04/03/d62dda5c-74fa-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html There was also a contract to produce low cost ventilators. You're just trying to pin the blame on anyone other than the person who presides over this problem.

And the Republican majority congress under those years repeatedly authorized lower amounts of funding than the Obama Administration requested. Where did a bunch of those Tea Party Republicans end up? In the Trump Administration.

Partially because it was shortchanged for years. It would have been further shortchanged it Trump actually got what he asked for. Congress gave him more. The Federal Government is responsible for repleting it.

George W Bush. Bill Gates Barack Obama HHS Secretary Alex Azar I think I am being fair in saying that the Bush and Obama administrations, well let's say any administration, would have been overwhelmed by this pandemic. But I am not convinced that any previous administration would have been as bad as Trump. It is still a fact that the HHS asked for $2 billion on Feb 5 for PPE and ventilators and that was cut by 75% by the White House, Trump vastly low balled a $2.5 billion estimate for response on Feb 25, and all of January, February and early March was filled with happy talk, it is all under control it will go away with the heat in April, my rallies are safe...

I didn't say that. The national stockpile exists because it was understood that no state would be fully prepared for such a disaster. Are you saying that this pandemic was within reason for the states to deal with?

We are in a state of emergency. The resources of the states is limited, which is what the Feds step in to help. The feds are letting the state and local governments decide when they are ready to open because that was always within the state and local governments purview. The ideas that the feds are allowing this is a distraction from the fact that Trump didn't know that he did not have the power he claimed to have but it unable to admit to being wrong about anything ever.

Tsai Ing-wen. The feds own quite a bit of blame for this shortfall. That is what the strategic stockpile is for. This stockpile has been shortchanged for years and multiple administrations but Trump tried to cut it further. He asked for less money every year that he has been in office than he was granted. His administration chiseled down the HHS bid for $2 billion for PPE and ventilators on Feb 5 and sent a low ball the estimate of $2.5 billion for dealing with the problem on Feb 25.

I watched the entire link, apparently much closer that you did. Point out the time stamp when he said we were ready for phase 1. He talks about what we need. Not what we currently have, nor does he say when we will be there.

Right, testing isn't everything. I never claimed it was. It is a large portion. Nowhere in your link did Fauci say that we were ready for Phase 1. He talked about closing the gap. He put no time frame on when that would be. Trump says May 1 or sooner, of course he said Easter earlier.