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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Mar 26 23:18:32 2020, in response to Re: NYC tells citizens nothing to worry about for covid-19, go on with your day, posted by Kevin from Midwood on Thu Mar 26 22:15:01 2020. I agree testing is huge and the Trump Admin's biggest failure. A complete, total, miserable failure on all fronts. I doubt Trump realizes it is actually impeding him from his goal of re-opening the economy; we don't have an accurate infection:hospitalization:death ratio due to lack of testing for asymptomatic cases. Might we have small patches of herd immunity already? who knows! And currently no way to test if someone silently had it and recovered thinking it was a cold, so that data is lost until the antibody test is developed.Beds are a state thing, NYS got rid of 20000 hospitals beds courtesy Pataki and Paterson. There aren't really Federal hospitals, so not much other than floating hospital ships into position can be done on the Federal level (for the future we should probably build some more) or repurposing areas like the Javitz Center. Facemasks: China makes half the world's supply and is Hoarding Them (understandably). On this point, Trump was way ahead of the curve, he was trying to "encourage" manufacturing to move back here via tariffs while the (non-Bernie) left were continuously criticizing him. Ventilators: those things cost 36k/each thanks to the cozy relationship between the FDA and medical device manufacturers, and they have an expiration date, so stockpiling them would be pointless. They had to issue a waiver to allow ambulance ventilators to be used in hospitals and beyond their shelf life (2nd bullet pt on list) - there's that level of red tape around these devices. So bureaucracy is why there was a shortage, and lifting the bureaucracy is the solution. Without the state of emergency, no one was lifting any red tape, and if the state of emergency was declared too early, media would be saying "omg Trump is a dictator" so I fail to see how the timeline on this could have been meaningfully moved up. As for the video, it repeats the hoax line out of context. Politifact rates it as completely false. Trump was downplaying it, absolutely. But what should he have said, "I want you to panic. Buy all the food and toilet paper RIGHT NOW!" That's what the commentators I was watching on Youtube were saying (minus the TP) in February, and they were being dismissed as whackaloons by the twitter blue check "journalists" with fancy WaPo and NYT bylines. Hindsight is 20/20, and I have 3 months of food and TP because it was being downplayed in February and I haven't needed to go out in this mayhem. |
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