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Ramping up PPE and ventilators at the first hint of an infectious disease would have saved tons of lives. The second thing was closing borders. We wouldn’t nee
by nojvek 7y ago
Ramping up PPE and ventilators at the first hint of an infectious disease would have saved tons of lives.
The second thing was closing borders. We wouldn’t need a massive lockdown inside the country if only negatively tested people were coming in.
Airlines would have taken a big hit, yes, but you’d still save the economy. It would be way cheaper to pay the airlines for all their potential lost fare than 20% of the population unemployed.
The president still not wearing mask in public says it all. He won’t take this seriously until he himself gets infected and gets seriously ill. The negligence is atrocious.
- renewiltord 7y agoThe President is not a generally competent pandemic-response person. His strengths are elsewhere. But the people who have held the jobs that were intended to be experts on this failed and are failing. The rot is institutional because bureaucrats always outlast elected administrations. Naturally, the "useful idiots" that the bureaucracy exploits are an additional problem. I haven't yet determined if they're a minor problem or if they provide the weight of opinion. If you have a thousand people who will say "Masks don't work" if the CDC says "Masks don't work" are the thousand people more dangerous or the CDC more dangerous. Probably the CDC, I think.