Finally, some common sense!

[dirtMAN007]

our state public health department is at least two weeks behind on testing because it took so long for the federal government to get their act together.

why do you need to know you have something if there is no cure for it ?

[Clayton_Wetters]

The monstrous medias need a take down. They are just rotten to the core with the left wing agenda.

[Clayton_Wetters]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1238451602442326016

[lurker]

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Thank you for posting both posts. You get it, as some others do not!!

[Clayton_Wetters]

One of my co-workers is a mayor. He gets a phone conference every morning from the public health department.

And a fine Mayor he is indeed.

[mcarter815]

Which liar did you listen to, to get this misinformation?

One of my co-workers is a mayor. He gets a phone conference every morning from the public health department.

[Barbecueboy]

He won't have an answer......other than ......its trumps fault for holding up the testing.

[Morgs153]

When the president responded quickly with the first travel ban there was wide criticism from the left about it being racist and xenophobic.

Here is a link to a very good explanation of the test kit problem. Read it and tell me how it was the president's fault. It was a bureaucratic issue with the CDC and FDA. The article does not come from a right wing Trump apologist site either.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6...virus-testing/

Now regarding this test kit issue I would not throw shade at the Obama administration either like some would. Kits have to be developed with specific reagents for specific types of pathogens. Kits don't just sit on shelves in a warehouse, especially when a brand new virus comes along.

It is an issue like this which exposes faults in a system. Some suggested the offerings of kits from other countries to aid in testing but that bumps up against the approval process of our FDA and CDC.

Yeah, I get it. This is one of those - happened on his watch - kind of things. But show where the president, or his administration, told the CDC they didn't need to test, they should delay testing, the kits they had were fine, or any of this other ridiculous crap that is asserted on this part of the issue.

[Clayton_Wetters]

Our state public health department is at least two weeks behind on testing because it took so long for the federal government to get their act together.

Which liar did you listen to, to get this misinformation?

[Clayton_Wetters]

The president is getting blamed for not responding to it quickly enough. The federal government dropped the ball on reacting soon enough and getting people tested. We are woefully behind on testing sick patients.

But if Obummer was still the president you would be belloring praises. How do you make tests and kits ahead of time for something that doesn't even exist at the time.

Admit it, you are just like the political activists and the fake media. Totally dedicated to slamming the president any chance you get. How does it feel to live a life of being a total tool for liars and Communists?

[mcarter815]

Our state public health department is at least two weeks behind on testing because it took so long for the federal government to get their act together.

[Barbecueboy]

Guess you missed post 6 and post 8 in this thread.........these are your peeps.

[mcarter815]

The president is getting blamed for not responding to it quickly enough. The federal government dropped the ball on reacting soon enough and getting people tested. We are woefully behind on testing sick patients.

[Barbecueboy]

He gets blamed for this by one group and one group only......the group that lost and just can't get over it.
And now they are taking joy in watching America struggle.
Fact.

[Morgs153]

I guess I'm at a bit of a loss when the president gets blamed for all this mess. Like he somehow nefariously and purposefully tried to engineer this whole world health crisis and he would benefit from this, how?

This started in China. Nuff said there. He very quickly banned travel from China (Wuhan primarily) and that turned out to be pragmatic. The test kit thing appears more to be a bureaucratic issue with the CDC than anything else and they are working through it. As this has progressed it appears the administration has taken the most prudent advice from Dr. Fauci and other experts and expanded travel bans and made other recommendations.

How does hurting the economy help this president? This was the one thing the left has been hoping for for at least the last two years. After the failures of the Russia collusion hoax, the failures of the impeachment fiasco, it was the left constantly chiming about recession, recession, recession, even when there were no indicators. They wanted it so bad because the other things failed and they were hoping for a bad economy going into the election. Well, they got what they were wishing for.

Many of the bans on large gatherings and closings of schools are the decisions of state and local officials who come from both sides of the aisle. That being said, which candidate for president benefits from no large gatherings? Is it Donald Trump, the guy who can pack an arena? Or is it Joe Biden, the guy who has his speeches limited to 7-14 minutes because of his gaffes and senility? More people are stuck waiting outside in a line for Trump appearance than those who would show up for a Biden gig. Biden's handlers are probably happy as he!! about this because they don't have to worry about him getting up in the grille of a potential supporter just for asking him a question. The lackey press doesn't even have to work as hard to cover for the guy.

Just the two points above show me that the president is not handling this health emergency to serve his own special interests. He is taking the advice of the advisors as to the best methods to use so far. I mentioned in a different post that much of what we are doing is buying time.

Now, I will say this about the public health people and the disaster planners. My last career was in the public sector and I went to disaster training at the national academy (Emmitsburg, MD) along with other a lot of other training. You almost always get worst case scenario information from the people who will train and advise in these situations. Be it natural disasters or public health issues, you get it pumped into you to over prepare. They do that because they know most will not reach that gold standard of preparedness. A great example of this is how FEMA prepared and advised New Orleans well before Katrina and they never acted on the recommendations. This all being said, if you are following the best advice they give you - it will seem a bit like over kill. It kinda does, doesn't it?

But we won't know that, yet. We won't know for quite some time. Differences exist around the globe. China was the epicenter, they have a high population density and very poor air quality. Italy did not act quickly on banning travel with China (Chinese do vacation in Italy) and Italy is the second "oldest" nation on earth. The average age of a Covid19 patient death in Italy is 81 YOA. Most of us will be just fine. The elderly and those with immune system issues are those who will require extra care and attention. Iran told people to gather at shrines and kiss and lick statues. How'd that work out for them?

Our numbers are going to go up. They will go up very soon as more people get tested. Don't be alarmed. This only means that we are finally getting test results, it doesn't mean more people are necessarily getting sick. It is just going to be data. But as it fleshes out the data will show that the morbidity of this is probably a good bit lower than first thought. It will show that recovery is very high in the majority of the population.

I really hope that going forward from this that we don't have to go through this BS every time another new case of something comes along. We will develop a herd immunity to Covid19 as it becomes endemic. They probably will have a vaccine ready for the next go around. I hope that we all don't have to go through this crap for Covid21, 22, 23, etc.