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We are not at war. We are +T two months since the first confirmed case in the USA and had warning nearly a month prior to that, and the Federal government has
by dogecoinbase 7y ago
We are not at war. We are +T two months since the first confirmed case in the USA and had warning nearly a month prior to that, and the Federal government has done almost nothing of substance other than reject tests and advice from nations who have been fighting this far better than we have, because they have functional health services.
- TrumpMyGuns 7y agokeep crying, libturd. adults aren't paying attention.
- wolco 7y agoWeren't they the first to limit then ban travel from Wuhan / China. To say they have done nothing sounds political. Good and poor decisions were made.
- ethbro 7y agoIn addition to enacting the CDC effort to distribute tests. That some of those tests were contaminated, or that the FDA may have made a hard call in proceeding with redistribution or calling an audible to multi-sourced testing, is a strategic problem. But let's not say nothing was done. I'm sure there were plenty of sleepless nights at the CDC, before we even had confirmed US cases. (Happened to drive by it today. And it's easy to forget that there are people, just like us, who are trying to do their best there. We all make mistakes. And sometimes we don't, but our bosses do, and we get blamed for it anyway.)
- dillonmckay 7y agoThe US refused the WHO tests and wanted to create their own.
- ethbro 7y agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-coronavirus-test/ That's kind of like saying "I've got a motherboard, am missing an Intel CPU, but AMD has CPUs, so I'll just put one of those in there." Rolling out testing on the scale that was obviously needed even then is a non-trivial thing, requiring coordination of multiple parties, all in a climate of dubious information. So, yeah, I think it's understandable (a) to stick to a prearranged plan (to avoid the risk of debilitating testing chaos), (b) to desire a domestic supply of tests, & (c) to avoid drawing on a global resource when there was expected to be no need. As Dr. Fauci says, hindsight is 20/20.
- dillonmckay 7y agoWhat pre-arranged plan?
- ethbro 7y agohttps://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/national-strategy... What do you think the CDC does in the years there aren't pandemics?
- dillonmckay 7y agoI don’t know because most of those materials you linked to from the CDC are from 2005. I see more recent docs from HHS. So, what has the CDC been doing the last 15 years?
- ethbro 7y agoI'm going to leave Googling as an exercise for the reader. :)
- dillonmckay 7y agoWell, if it was a true ban, nobody that had travelled from Wuhan would have been allowed back. The ban did not apply to US citizens.