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Originally Posted by GGG
The current President.
Travel Bans after the disease was already prevelant in the US did not help. Travel Bans missing Iran we’re not going to help.
The CDC in the US failed miserably. Both as being a world leader influencing the WHO and at ensuring testing worked. The US has failed at Testing, Contact Tracing, PPE, and reopening. The lack of leadership at the presidential level led to states fighting over PPE and out bidding each other for it.
A lack of a National Response using the spending power as a whip to gain state compliance is a failure of both Congress and the Presidency.
But really it all started with who ever made the decision to make a made in USA testing solution that didn’t work. Bad early data and the inability to test led to the Initial outbreaks
But even if all of the above still happened and we accept that it was a new virus and difficult to get right this extended first Wave is clearly Trumps fault.
- He actively breaks social distancing protocols
- He is holding rallies as if nothing is wrong
- He has total Control of 30-40% of the populace and could have them doing things for America if he asked.
- by behaving like the virus doesn’t matter it means the population can behave like the virus doesn’t matter. When that happens you get the very predictable result. They shouldn’t have bothered to lock down if this was their planned path forward in the end.
Both siding the current US crisis is ridiculous.
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I'm not sure how much can be done. Each state has its own laws and fight for themselves. There will never be state compliance.
The populace is ADD and cannot listen to anyone
Testing: No
Masks: No
Contact Tracing: No
Reopening: hell yeah let's go to the bars
Yes Trump refusing to set an example is idiotic but again, he closed the border and wanted to lockdown early and was criticized for it. And he reopened too early and got criticized. But it comes down the the public, they cannot stay indoors. Perhaps the right solution was to not lockdown and let the virus run through everyone.