hillbangin wrote: ↑Oct 26th, '20, 07:13
easyrider16 wrote:Real talk - Trump should have focused on a comprehensive national testing program instead of building a hundred thousand useless ventilators. We knew in March how important testing could be from places like South Korea that did it well. It's one of Trump's most glaring failures, along with failing to push mask usage. I'll give you that there were pros and cons to shutting down the economy and schools, but masks and testing were no-brainers that Trump totally botched.
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Real Talk. I'm sure you are very good at your job - butt when the scientists thought everyone was going to end up on vents trump built vents. He also sent hospital ships to LA and NY ( NOT RED STATES BTW ) At the same time fauchi said you don't need masks and pelosi said come to Chinatown.
This has been a sh*t show from the beginning. Trump's not a doctor and never played one on TV. And his doctors weren't alot of help.
Supposedly the smartest doctors in the world are in Boston and MGH was possibly the biggest hospital disaster in the country in Feb/March. Lots of nurses and docs got the Covid.
I'm not trying to convince you of anything. But don't play the he should have focused on testing before he built the vents.
It's still a sh*t show, unfortunately. I don't think anyone, at least not me, expected perfection from the get go. We knew little about the virus and mistakes were made early on ... Trump, Democrats, GOP, Doctors, CDC, FDA, etc. everyone. I personally think we still know very little.
The issue is the White House didn't make changes, to control the spread, based on what was learned and this is where Trump is at fault. Instead he politicized mask wearing ... making masks into something 'unmanly' or display of 'weakness' ... he continues to do it to this day. This is part of the reason we're a hot spot, when other countries seemingly have it under control. Mark Meadows over the weekend basically admitted the White House is done trying to control the spread. I don't agree with surrendering, but the truth is we may be too far down this road that the damage is unrepairable. The anti-maskers will turn into anti-vaxxers and, unfortunately, this virus may be here to stay long-term.
Over the weekend Scott Gottlieb. former head of the FDA, who I think has been on the right side of the COVID issue from the start ... thinks it will get so bad this winter that a mask mandate is necessary. Unfortunately, even if Trump decided to do such a thing ... many will ignore it and the rest of us will suffer the consequences. Like I said above, the damage has been done by Trump and his enablers.
A lot of posters are beating around the bush, but I don't see anyone saying we shouldn't be wearing masks. Yet, in some parts of the country, that's exactly what's happening. I was in rural PA last weekend and no one was wearing masks, not adults, not children, not store keepers, inside, outside, it didn't matter. This county has one of the worst per capita COVID case numbers in the state and it's a county which Trump won by over 60% of the vote.
hillbangin wrote: ↑Oct 25th, '20, 12:16Comparing this to WW2 is stupid. No comparison.
Why isn't it comparable?