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To keep up with the capacity of South Korea, aftet adjusting for population size the US would need to capable of running 70,000 tests per day. We aren't remotel
by BoiledCabbage 7y ago
To keep up with the capacity of South Korea, aftet adjusting for population size the US would need to capable of running 70,000 tests per day. We aren't remotely in that ball park.
This administration massively dropped the ball here by being more concerned with keeping statistics low than actually keeping people safe. Even though they had weeks of advanced notice they only reinstated a task force after Washington state started spiraling out of control.
They could have solved this testing issue at any point within an hr by simply telling the FDA to authorize private testing. Instead they waited until governors and patients were literally begging online to improve test capacity for any change to happen.
You want to be in charge? That's what being in charge is. In times of crisis accurately assessing the situation and taking decisive action to solve problems. Not playing a leader on tv while sitting on your hands and passing the buck blaming others while simultaneously giving a false sense of unseriousness by downplaying the situation.
A month from now this wasted, squandered time is going to be absolutely indefensible. This country (like every other that hasn't taken this seriously) is gonna get hit hard.
- harikb 7y agoWe will discover years later that the delay was intentional, so that certain investments/under the table deal with certain companies can occur first.