Keep this in mind, keep reminding your neighbors and friends that there's a reason we're criminally unable to do the kind of testing for coronavirus that other developed nations have been doing:
There are a lot of reasons why the U.S. lags other countries in testing for the new coronavirus — defective early tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the decision not to adopt an effective German test adopted by the World Health Organization — but Politico's Dan Diamond told Fresh Air's Terry Gross on Thursday that politics also seems to have played a role, along with mismanagement and infighting between, for example, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Seema Verma, the Medicare chief.
In January, Azar "did push past resistance from the president's political aides to warn the president the new coronavirus could be a major problem," Diamond said, but he "has not always given the president the worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is [Trump] did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks, and that's partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear — the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his potential re-election this fall." (our emphasis)The dull, evil bastard has only his own interests in mind, and they don't align with the nation's as a whole our yours or ours in particular. One more thing to remember come November 3.
BONUS: At Trump's announcement/ news conference where he belatedly declared the coronavirus outbreak a National Emergency, this:
This quote should lead the news tonight everywhere. It represents an appalling refusal to take responsibility for an extraordinary abdication of leadership that could end up claiming untold numbers of American lives. It's one of the worst presidential displays in modern times. https://t.co/cGUlCCfieX— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 13, 2020
