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Posted by Charles G on Sun Apr 5 19:05:33 2020, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by AlM on Sun Apr 5 18:53:57 2020. You're barking up the wrong tree trying to blame the only the current federal government.There was a national stockpile of masks that was drawn down for H1N1 in 2009. Every political party permutation of President/Congress since then failed to replenish the stock. New York State was warned in 2016 that they would be woefully short of ventilators in a respiratory pandemic. They ignored the advice. And the CDC completely dropped the ball on testing. I am of the opinion that private industry is always better than government at responding quickly to a challenge, but that is of course not universally shared. But you should be fair. Don't think about it in terms of what you know today, think back to your reality in late January. Impeachment ruled the day in the news and Covid-19 was just a sideline (a massive failure on the part of the US news media, btw). Imagine President Trump announcing on January 30th that he was going to suspend the long held protocol of CDC control so that private industry could produce testing kits. The press would have been all over him for "giving deals to his friends in industry" and "wagging the dog" to create a new crisis to deflect from impeachment. |
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