The Coronavirus

[David Horn]

(05-08-2020, 06:50 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: He's done everything he can do as President at this point. It takes time for multiple systems to adjust. It takes time establish manufacturing that isn't present and time to manufacture goods that aren't present that a LARGE country with 325 million citizens needs to better protect itself during a global pandemic and it takes time to gather information and data about unknown diseases and establish viable/workable guidelines as scientists do their jobs developing new vaccines and effective treatments and so forth in a record amount of time. As I've mentioned to you before, your values don't seem to be as practical or as realistic and as flexible as our values these days.

I'm having a real problem assuming you're being serious. China is several times our size and less wealthy per capita by far. They managed to do better -- and they did a poor job too. The problem is simple: Donald Trump is Emperor Nero, or Hamlet if you prefer that analogy. Neither of those noted failures was capable of acting when action was needed -- immediately after the threat was known! And please, give me a break on crediting results-to-date with anything other than failure. If there is a silver lining to emerge, it will come from the non-commercial research sector that's been looking at coronavirus responses since SARS. If anything, Trump has tried to tamp those down, because the results won't create profits. With him, it's all about the Benjamins.