I am certain we would have had some critique of the Clinton administration. The real point is, we have and are paying the price for an administration committed to doing things differently. Shaking things up. Seeing no use in anything that has gone before. Thinking all civil servants are unnecessary moochers. Any normal administration would have done a better job early on.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:30 amI think it's fair to suggest that the political instinct may well have been to try to be reassuring. I'd not have wholly surprised if the hypothetical Clinton Administration had given us ample reason to critique.jhu72 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:15 amIn this case I am 100% certain a Clinton administration would have understood their options when informed that the WHO had a test kit working and were told we could use that, but the FDA will have to be ordered to expedite clearance. The Clinton administration would not have been short handed, playing musical chairs at the cabinet level. They would have had people familiar with the processes (and believed in them) involved. They would have been a normal administration. Not one of Acting Secretary of Muster Seed Inspections.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:38 am Look at the timeline for this thing. On this thread. What would Hillary or any other president/staff have done differently? What warning would the American people have heeded?
We’ve been talking about this seriously for the past week and a half as a legit war/crisis and yesterday Ft Walton Beach was packed.
What is testing going to do? Even if the tests weren’t screwed up? The level of testing needed (to test others than those showing symptoms) wouldn't have been possible.
At this point, if you are showing any signs whatsoever, assume you have Corona: tell everyone you know and have been in close contact with. Isolate no matter what.
But I think you're quite correct that they'd have been well staffed and would have listened to the scientists with fully open ears. And that would have led to earlier action and earlier communication about the seriousness of the challenge.
They most certainly wouldn't have rejected using WHO tests, at least as a stop gap.
They now seem to be catching on to how the processes work and things are moving in a better direction. The evidence for that is the ROCHE episode, even though they spun a false narrative.
PS: Orange Duce just used the mnemonic FDA in a whole sentence, that actually made sense.