But you see… no better response could have happened by the President and that is why we have objectively the worst response of the Western World.
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When it comes to Trump-lovers the buck always stops waaaaaaaay over ------------------------> there
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The point is, there are two ways to address a pandemic. The first is containment, the second is mitigation.
Containment is heavy handed, it requires a robust response and it needs to be Federalized. The upside? If containment works, we are looking at mortality rates lower than the rest of the world. We never even had a chance for containment because the White House never pursued it to any extent.
Mitigation is what we got, and almost from the start. Yet still, no Federal leadership, no DPA for testing or PPE, and now we have the worst results in the modern industrial world.
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It is truly astonishing. As if we are incapable of seeing the situation in every single country on the face of the planet, and then having the data and intellect to compare and contrast the results at the 8-month mark of this pandemic. To borrow a phrase…bonkers!
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Donald Trump is still treating this pandemic as a 
show. Despicable.
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This kind of leads me to the subject of reopening schools.
If reopening schools is a huge priority for the administration then it would seem like months ago the Department of Education would work with the CDC, the NiH, the DHS, the HHS, and the various States and localities to determine the necessary supplies and protocols that would have to be in place to be able to safely open schools on the timeline that was set and work to secure funding and supplies to make it happen.
But that would take work.
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How did you draw this conclusion from my posts?
The CDC did, in fact, supply guidelines and the Trump administration gutted them.
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Indeed. But this is what happens when governance is happening by emotion based on a petulant toddler’s whims at any given moment. There is no cohesive strategy for anything. Ever. It is pure chaos. Even if there are people willing to put forth the work, without a cohesive strategy being communicated from the Chief Executive, then it is all just a shotgun approach that results in the horrific failures we see today.
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Fact…which furthers my point here…
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I like this effort of self promotion of a failed thread.
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Yes, I know why that is. Because the local police and county sheriff’s told the Governor that they would not enforce the mandate.
Use the military to do what with quarantine?
All that support was offered and either used or rejected. Or moved, then not used.
“N95s are for caregivers”
Prove it.
failed how? You can’t refute a single line I posted in it.
Trump should have used the military and CIA to make them.
All he had to do was follow the playbook
Read it. It’s litterly step by step, phase by phase, what to do.
I’m reading it now. Haven’t got to the part yet where it says “tweet against the states” or “tell people it will go away on its own” yet…
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