the who and the cdc certainly weren't sounding any alarms that those sort of actions should be getting ramped. at least not publicly.RedFromMI wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:51 pmwgdsr wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:33 pm Unfortunately there was more data available early on (say by 2/1) than is often admitted. If the federal response would have been ramping up as was intended by the structure Bush (originally) and Obama had set up we would be in so much better shape. But the Donald let Xi snow him as to the actual nature of the threat (and he still cannot see beyond how the crippled economy is screwing up his re-election chances).
It (testing) matters hugely to how fast we can ramp things back up. In an economy so heavily based on consumer confidence, if people are not confident in safely going outside, they will just stay home as much as they can. Killer for brick and mortar retail, which includes a lot of small business.
and they are the experts. but we're all better experts on fanlax.
it's possible bush and/or obama would've taken more concrete actions earlier.
it's conjecture but even if they had it would've been "too late" if they were listening to experts.
there was a lot of talk about testing today. before today the narrative was that there won't be a ton of it. we'll see what the ultimate scenario is.
at least republicans will jump out there and give businesses and workers a 2nd lifeline beyond the fed and our piggy banks.