Top DHS official can't find key coronavirus resource, asks Twitter for help

by Aldous J Pennyfarthing

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Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 at 7:49:51am PST

A man wearing a protective facemask walks across the Piazza del Duomo, in front of the Duomo, in central Milan, on February 24, 2020 closed following security measures taken in northern Italy against the COVID-19 the novel coronavirus. - Italy reported on February 24, 2020 its fourth death from the new coronavirus, an 84-year old man in the northern Lombardy region, as the number of people contracting the virus continued to mount. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

So glad to see our government is on top of the coronavirus outbreak! Well, Rush Limbaugh thinks COVID-19 is just the common cold, and he has a Presidential Medal of Freedom, so I’m sure we have nothing to worry about.

I just tried again, and it looks like Johns Hopkins put the information behind a membership wall of some kind. Seems like bad timing to stop helping the world with this (previously) useful resource. Here's hoping it goes back up soon.
— Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (@HomelandKen) February 24, 2020

Twitter, of course, was eager to help him out:

The @JohnsHopkins map is a great tool. But when I coordinated the Ebola response in 2014-15, I got two briefings a day from the CIA ... and never crowd-sourced the response on @Twitter. https://t.co/eT1FVmtaSQ
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) February 25, 2020

America, hereÃ¢ÂÂs the dude whoÃ¢ÂÂs in charge of protecting us from a pandemic. pic.twitter.com/aWxRy2VW0E
— Wolverine 2020 Ã°ÂÂÂ¥ (@WolverineResist) February 25, 2020

You're on the CoVid19 task force? For our government? Resign. This should freak people out! The incompetence of these folks is beyond belief!
— DebbieMaute *trumpISIMPEACHED* (@MauteDebbie) February 25, 2020

Seriously? This is shamefully incompetent. Peoples lives are at stake.

It would behoove you to call in someone who knows what theyÃ¢ÂÂre doing.
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 25, 2020

"Sorry, couldn't respond to a potential pandemic. There was a paywall."
— Captain Renault (@JohnMonch) February 25, 2020

Oh, and this will give you a warm, fuzzy feeling, too:

This morningÃ¢ÂÂs classified coronavirus briefing should have been made fully open to the American peopleÃ¢ÂÂthey would be as appalled & astonished as I am by the inadequacy of preparedness & prevention.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) February 25, 2020

Yeah, it’s just thousands of people’s lives at stake. Never mind. Nothing to see here. What we really need in government are more Trump loyalists who don’t know fuck all about doing their jobs. If I get sick, I just hope the government’s pandemic response centers don’t run out of leeches.

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