“Why are we NOT doing that? We screwed the pooch on getting a jump start on Cov-19 test kits as well as not organizing public health, police and military.”
It’s amazing to see the incompetence. Isn’t the CDC one of the bureaucracies that is supposed to just do its job, no matter who is president? Aren’t they supposed to just jump into action for situations like these? It’s becoming quite clear that the U.S. does not have the best health care or health care system in the world. We are only comparing ourselves to other countries’ state-run systems. It’s totally the fault of the CDC- they are the supposed experts to handle the crises. This is not Trump’s fault.
“This is not Trump’s fault.”
It is not Trump’s fault now. If we have this type of “contagion” again between 2021 and 2024, and Trump is in office then, a repeat of the NIH/CDC/FDA incompetence will be his fault.
We need a law that says in national emergencies national rule making agencies, like the NIH/CDC/FDA must have their authority set aside when private actors are ready, willing and capable of providing either answers, means, methods or actions the NIH/CDC/FDA are not prepared to take. And that same law must command the Chief Executive to use every occasion possible to engage the private sector in solving problems a sluggish bureaucracy cannot solve fast enough.
The real problem is a Liberal creation. It is the mistaken idea that merely by appointing individuals to positions of “expert authorities”, on any matter, that by that mere appointment they become magically endowed with the world’s most superior opinions and decisions on a topic, and the people should treat them like Gods and defer all questions and responsibilities for answers to them. That idea is insane because it is neither logical nor rational.