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In a recent study, Johns Hopkins and others found that the United States was actually the best prepared nation to handle a pandemic. Here are the details from Fox News<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) — an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by Democrats that the Trump administration left the country vulnerable to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. <\/b><\/p>\n The Global Health Security Index<\/a> was was “developed with guidance from an international panel of experts from 13 countries, with research by the Economist Intelligence Unit” from 2018 to 2019, The Washington Post<\/a> reported last year. “More than 100 researchers spent a year collecting and validating publicly available data.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s going to annoy the Democrats. Still, there are areas that we can improve on.<\/p>\n At the same time, the paper noted that the U.S. score was still not perfect, and that “factors driving down the U.S. score include the risks of social unrest and terrorism, and low public confidence in government.”<\/b><\/p>\n The social unrest can generally be laid at the doorstep of the Democrat Party. They have been using the thugs from Antifa as their own personal brown shirts. As for a \u201cLow public confidence in government?\u201d Hello, this is America. We have an innate distrust of the government.<\/p>\n President Trump’s campaign has argued<\/a> in recent days that misinformation may be one of the leading causes of that lack of confidence. For example, Trump’s team has pointed to claims by presidential contender Joe Biden that “no one on the National Security Council staff was put in charge” of pandemic preparedness, based on a report that in May 2018, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton eliminated the NSC\u2019s Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense in a reorganization effort.<\/b><\/p>\n Why was this office eliminated? It was basically duplicating other offices doing the exact same job. When this office was closed down, some people were let go, others were transferred. Of course, this isn\u2019t private industry. This sort of thing isn\u2019t supposed to happen.<\/p>\n Rear Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer reportedly was ousted as senior director, and no replacement was named. But, FactCheck.org has determined<\/a> that the matter amounted to a reorganization, and that \u201csome team members [of the NSC pandemic office] were shifted to other groups, and others took over some of [the top official\u2019s] duties.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n Pesky things, those facts, aren\u2019t they? Of course, facts are not something that lying Joe Biden has ever concerned himself with.<\/p>\n Separately, the Biden team has repeatedly argued that the president once referred to coronavirus as a “hoax.” That claim has been refuted by numerous fact-checkers<\/a>, including the Post’s, which found that Trump was clearly referring to Democrats’ efforts to blame him for the pandemic, not the virus itself. <\/b><\/p>\n How will you ever know if Biden is telling the truth about something? That\u2019s easy. He never does. Next we have that garbage about President Trump slashing the budget for the CDC.<\/p>\n Additionally, numerous Democrats, including Biden, have falsely claimed that the president cut the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget. The Associated Press has noted<\/a> that those claims “distort” the facts. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n