Ahh.. what would you consider this, satire? Just bad advisors?
If I were trying to hang Trump by his shorts, I'd call it the worst argument I could have chosen.
Jan 11/12 - U.S. gets the virus genome sequencing and CDC begins developing test protocol
Jan 14 - The WHO states there was no evidence of human-human transmission
Jan 20 - Human transmission is confirmed.
Jan 21 - There are 555 worldwide cases. On this day the first U.S. case is found, using the CDC new test protocol.
Jan 21 - A. Fauci: "Obviously we need to take it seriously and do the kinds of things that the CDC and DHS are doing, but this is not a major threat for the people in United States, and this is not something the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about”
Jan 22 - On a scale of 1-10, how worried should Trump be the following day?
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Jan 26 - "The American people should not be worried or frightened by this. It's a very, very low risk to the United States," Dr. Fauci said on The CATS Roundtable. "It isn't something that the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about."
Feb 17 - Fauci
"I don't think people should be frightened, the risk right now, today currently is really relatively low for the American public. But that could change with China and other countries, this could evolve into a global pandemic, which would have significant implications for us. We don't want people to worry so be more worried about influenza which is going through a second peak." Risk of coronavirus in U.S. is 'minuscule' NIH's Dr. Anthony Fauci says
Mar 27 - Director Redfield agreed with Dr. Fauci's assessment, saying that at that time in January the information coming out of China suggested "they were pretty certain that this was not transmitted human to human."
"Obviously that became corrected as they saw in the first three, four weeks in January that human to human spread was not only occurring it's actually, as I said, more infectious and I think that led to the situation that we're in today. I think no one could have predicted how transmissible, how infectious this virus really is," he added.
Again, through Jan and Feb, Trump and the task force medical/pandemics are on the same page.
It doesn't get better for your argument in March, either.