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Originally Posted by Ped
Scary thought, but the US is at least on the path of shutting down the economy for no reason because they're basically just letting everyone catch it anyway.
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True however at least we know now that if massive people get it, it won't tie up the hospitals which was the fear of the being Italy back in March.
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Originally Posted by GGG
Testing - government failure
Masks - government failure
Contact Tracing - government failure
These failures at the CDC level are the responsibility of the Trump administration.
Trump could have used emergency measures to force compliance or work with congress to use the spending powers to force states into compliance to solve each of the above issues by now. Let the states appeal to the courts for Injunctions where powers are overstepped. He didn’t have any issues with this kind of action when it was not Covid related.
On the Reopening problem setting the correct example would have at least reduced the issue but I agree the individualism of Americans is a part of the problem.
Even not locking down and going full on herd immunity would have required a plan. He did not have one at all. You can look at Sweden and look at how they handled it and disagree with it but a plan was executed. You can’t say the same about the US.
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The problem is still individualism. If you have more testing people will just horde them or the people that don't need to be tested will go and the people that need them will not. remember testing may cost money in some circumstances, rich vs poor. Same with masks, in a recent article, Dr Fauci admitted he had to lie that masks didn't make a difference in order for people not to buy and horde them. Again the problem with people.And contact tracing is just a non-starter in the US.
It's impossible to track in the US with the combination of a large population, concentrated in major cities and states having their own laws.
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Originally Posted by nik-
The crazy thing is that Trump had a much better chance of being re-elected than most people wanted to think before this. His response to this entire pandemic was out of fear of what it was doing to his re-election chances, when if he just would have taken the proper route during this, it would have given him a much higher chance at it. The economy would have taken a hit, and people still would have died, but he wouldn't have been able to attacked on it to great effect as it's an essentially unprecedented event.
Now, of course, asking why Trump didn't have the proper response is like asking why a rock doesn't just flap its wings, but still. Even 50% less head in the sand on this and the upcoming election would be very scary. Trying to pretend it was nothing because it would hurt him ended up hurting him way more.
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Trump is an idiot but no matter what he did, he would have been criticized. A pandemic is weaponized politically, that's the point of no return.