I have no sympathy for the government of China.6ftstick wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:16 pmWhen the FK will you get it through your skull this pandemic is CHINAS FAULT. Chinese Communists lied and misled the entire world.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:59 pmThat is a dangerous lie.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:13 pmand there is not a leader among us who would've been properly prepared and executed.DocBarrister wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:44 pmAnd here we are in April, still with an insufficient number of tests and testing sites available.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:47 pmearly januaryold salt wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:42 pmWhen did the WHO or the Chinese provide to the CDC, the first samples & data necessary for the CDC to begin developing test kits ?MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 8:44 amTo be fair, the Chinese implemented their own travel ban Jan 23rd in Wuhan, as tens of thousands were being identified fast. They had confirmed that it was a new coronavirus on Jan 7, should have locked down then or earlier, but were slow off the mark. We think they underreported their #'s at each stage of this, but we knew the #'s they were publicly reporting were big and growing very fast. And our IC was apparently very clear that the situation was very dire in China.
We should have been focused on preparing for testing those first weeks, but once the Chinese actually hit the panic button we definitely knew that this could be huge if it had already gotten out of China, which anyone with access to travel data could have swiftly predicted as a near certainty. The Federal gov't has such data. They knew.
January 28 we had already found two cases in the US, January 30 we had first confirmed community spread in the US. Of course, that had already begun in multiple areas of the US, just undetected.
So, while the Jan 29 ban was correct to do, it was already much too late to be relied upon as sufficient.
Miserable.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspec ... now-deadly
Trump’s failure on testing will be remembered as one of the colossal failures of leadership in American history.
DocBarrister
maybe george, jr.
hopefully that will change coming out of this and our children and children's children will be served.
Truth is, very few people would have sat on their hands for more than six weeks the way Trump did. Trump delayed because he prioritized his reelection over the lives, health, and safety of the American people. As a matter of tragic and deadly irony, his malignant decision likely sealed his defeat in November.
Trump’s main legacy won’t be impeachment or his other catastrophic failures.
No, Trump’s main legacy will be tens of thousands of lost American souls.
DocBarrister
182 countries have people DYING in them. ALL BECAUSE OF CHINESE COMMUNISTS
Having said that, when you rejoin us from the early 1950s, let me know.
DocBarrister