Friday, March 20, 2020

We will need a coronavirus commission; The Washington Post, March 20, 2020



"We will need a commission on par with the 9/11 Commission when the immediate emergency is over. The commission will need full subpoena power and access to any government official and document it needs. Among the questions we need answered:

  • When was the president briefed?
  • What was he told about the coronavirus?
  • What steps did he take to prepare for the virus?
  • What other officials in the executive and legislative branches were aware of the threat? What did they do?
  • Why, until this week, was Trump downplaying the magnitude of the threat?
  • What precisely was the sequence of events that held up distribution of testing kits?
  • What resources were available that could have been tapped had governors, mayors and ordinary Americans understood the extent of the threat?
  • Who, if anyone, in government profited from advance knowledge of the threat?
  • What government structures or policies did the current administration make that impacted the response, either positively or negatively?
  • Why was the Defense Production Act not activated sooner?
  • Why were wealthy and famous individuals given tests when ordinary Americans still could not access them?"

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