@dover,
The United States CDC has a detailed plan for a pandemic that were developed in 2005 -
National Pandemic Influenza Plans | Pandemic Influenza (Flu) | CDC.
"Preparing for a pandemic requires the
leveraging of all instruments of national
power, and coordinated action by all
segments of government and society.
Influenza viruses do not respect the
distinctions of race, sex, age, profession or
nationality, and are not constrained by
geographic boundaries. The next pandemic
is likely to come in waves, each lasting
months, and pass through communities of all
size across the nation and world. While a
pandemic will not damage power lines,
banks or computer networks, it will
ultimately threaten all critical infrastructure
by removing essential personnel from the
workplace for weeks or months.
This makes a pandemic a unique
circumstance necessitating a strategy that
extends well beyond health and medical
boundaries, to include the sustainment of
critical infrastructure, private-sector
activities, the movement of goods and
services across the nation and the globe, and
economic and security considerations. The
uncertainties associated with influenza
viruses require that our Strategy be versatile,
to ensure that we are prepared for any virus
with pandemic potential, as well as the
annual burden of influenza that we know we
will face.
The National Strategy for Pandemic
Influenza guides our preparedness and
response to an influenza pandemic, with
the intent of (1) stopping, slowing or
otherwise limiting the spread of a
pandemic to the United States;
(2) limiting the domestic spread of a
pandemic, and mitigating disease,
suffering and death; and (3) sustaining
infrastructure and mitigating impact to
the economy and the functioning of
society."
Why weren't they followed verbatim?
In America, in times of a national crisis/emergency, like it or not, regardless of advisers, the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the POTUS/Commander-In-Chief; such is the old adage "The buck stops here".
