President Trump’s efforts have, at times, felt frustratingly slow. As Americans, we assume that our government had the ability to test all of us in the event of a pandemic. We now know this was not true. They are developing, on the fly, a new system that should have been thought of and implemented 10, 20, or just 3 years ago.
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Liberal PDJT hater.
Actually, I think it’s a reasonable statement. Just what department of government is supposed to be sure we can test - seems CDC is out to lunch? And other countries seem to be doing just fine with their testing.
And by not being able to test, we’re now forced into Wuhan-like countermeasures, unlike the few countries that were able to test and also act fast (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and El Salvador).
Who assumed THAT?
Someone who lives in NYC and has never been west of the Hudson?
Big country. Very big country. Really very big country. With lots of people.
Does this person think that we stockpile 400 million tests for every virus that may pop up?
There are over 300 deadly viruses out there that we know about and something that is not deadly (coronavirus) can morph into something that IS deadly like the Wuhan-400.
That would be 120 Billion test kits they would need to have in stock. And test kits generally have a short shelf life. Where would they keep them? How would they dispose of the expired ones. Who would....?
Oh never mind.
Just take it as read that no one with more then two brain cells had the stupid delusion that the government could test all of us in event of a pandemic.
. . . like, by 0bama?