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3 weeks ago, the CDC and WHO were saying it was under control and there was low risk. H2H had not even started and everyone thought stopping flights from Wuhan would have been enough. 4 weeks ago were the first cases outside of China.

The testing problems were just last week.

I know this all feels like a lifetime in pandemic years, but I am not going to excoriate the administration for listening to the CDC/HHS/WHO 3 weeks ago.

However, last week was key, IMO. It was obvious the cat was out of the bag and our CDC was failing miserably. The president should have stayed home and taken care of business. He needs to up his communication game, people feel better with specifics not generalizations.

Here’s the deal. Singapore is doing the best job in the world, but they are just keeping their head above water. They are running 3 released for every new case, and if that holds good. But, it’s going to be touch, because it is a silent spreader. Even Israel who jumped out early and decisive, has had cases imported. Who would have known while everyone was looking at Asia that Italy would be seeding Europe?

The bottom line, even if President Trump did everything right, it’s still coming like a wave while we’re using brooms to try and sweep up the water on the shore.

I think healthcare wise it will be the worst thing most of us have seen in our lifetime. I think the markets will hit very low numbers if not crash. But I believe, unless Jesus comes back (and you’ll probably flame me for that one), I believe that the Us will rebuild.

I agree completely.

I think the President was listening to Kudlow. We cannot disrupt the markets. Well, that horse is gone.

Now is the time to act like FDR at the start of WWII. Time to get rid of the dead wood and start putting action oriented people in charge.

It is time to pull in the owners of the major media into a Scif and show them the satellite footage of China’s bonfires and big ditches. Tell them to go back and stop the crap.

It is time to pull the entire country together.

I like Trump. But it is not time to tweet crap, it is time to show leadership.

Pence in charge does not encourage me. He is a decent, good man. But he is a political leader that we do not need. This is the President’s job. Period.

Last week he lost control. This week it was worse. Stop worrying about the twitter-verse. Time to take charge.

What he is doing is reacting. He needs to act. Making committees is not acting in any meaningful way.