Would be nice if they applied that WW2 mentality to the test kits. Based on that cluster, I’m not overly optimistic.
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the WW2 mentality was demonstrated by the doctors, who told the CDC to bugger off, they were testing anyway with their own tests.
The CDC screwed up royal on the test kits. But, otoh, given American nature vis a vis The Great TP Rush, had they announced widespread availability, 300million would have rushed the hospitals demanding a test whether they had a cold or not. So we would need 720million just to open the door on testing - all useless.
And then, we have a CDC relying on WHO for guidance, and the same test eligibility criteria that worked so well in China. /s. And about as CCP-tunnelvisioned as you can possibly get. Not to mention the little darlings that sent test kits to the wrong state, or the other darlings that contaminated a reagent in the kit, or the insistence of the arrogant little darlings at CDC that they knew how to make a test kit better than anyone else, even if it couldn’t be run on any body else’s equipment.
I’ll get around to making a better timeline sooner or later)
Jan 28 = WHO tells US no need to evacuate citizens from Wuhan - all is under control
Jan 31 - China ambassador to US says no need to overreact
Feb 2 - Schools told no special disinfecting needed
Feb 3 - WHO says no need to limit int’l travel
Feb 10 - WHO says no need for masks but we’ll take US $675MM to wipe out the disease in China ( but send a lot of masks to China please, where they are beaten and thrown in prison for not wearing one)
Feb 22 - WHO says window to contain is narrowing but cases outside China ‘relatively small’ while begging for praise for China
Feb 24 - Trump ups the $675MM to $2B for relief and CDC - Schumer/Pelosi throw a fit it’s not enough but take a week to write a bill
Feb 28 - WHO says not a pandemic but ‘localized outbreaks’
Feb 28 - WHO says ‘we can control it” (in Nigeria I suppose)
Mar 6 - Trump signs a $8B bill for relief/CDC
and here we are today, March 7, with test kits apparently pulled out of thin air and 93 labs miraculously set to run tests.
new jersey school guidance - from late Jan:
https://www.njspotlight.com/2020/01/fine-print-school-guidance-for-novel-coronavirus/
We have to wait until it hits DC. Get a few of those ancient Congress critters sick and all hell will break loose.
Then they will light a fire under their asses.