It most definitely is all on Trump.
The fuckwit downplayed the seriousness of the crisis. He blew it off. He didn't give two shits about testing.
Donald Trump,
February 26: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
Donald Trump,
March 6: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”
Donald Trump, March 7: “
I’m not concerned at all. No, I'm not.
We've done a great job.”
Trump tried to fellate himself and take credit for IMAGINARY success. Don't even try to let him off the hook for the blame for fucking up the REALITY.
Bungled messaging yes. I'm not letting him off the hook for that and have been very vocal about it in other threads. He owns the dumb crap that came out of his mouth early on that lead to confusion, misinformation and likely fed the panic we're seeing.
Test kits no, though. There were issues with the ones developed internally, for whatever reason, they didn't work properly and we had to go back to the drawing board, which cost us time. That's not on him.
He fired Obama's pandemic people. He hired Azar who was the one who really fucked up testing, after he fired Price who was beyond imcompetent whom he hired to replace Burwell who went through ebola and zika. He hired Fitzgerald for CDC who had to resign because she was trading TOBACCO STOCKS. And he brought back Obama's head only to replace her with a guy who's never managed public health but thinls AIDS IS GODS PUNISHMENT TO FAGS. He hired Verma for CMS.
jfc It's a pandemic of incompetence. (and I stole that line)
Except that's not what happened with the test kits. At all.
The CDC developed their own test kits instead of using those being offered by other nations. Those test kits were defective.
What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.
I know the temptation is to just blame Trump for everything. he owns what he owns, but he didn't do this. That decision came from within the CDC.
It most definitely is all on Trump.
The fuckwit downplayed the seriousness of the crisis. He blew it off. He didn't give two shits about testing.
Donald Trump,
February 26: “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”
Donald Trump,
March 6: “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”
Donald Trump, March 7: “
I’m not concerned at all. No, I'm not.
We've done a great job.”
Trump tried to fellate himself and take credit for IMAGINARY success. Don't even try to let him off the hook for the blame for fucking up the REALITY.
Bungled messaging yes. I'm not letting him off the hook for that and have been very vocal about it in other threads. He owns the dumb crap that came out of his mouth early on that lead to confusion, misinformation and likely fed the panic we're seeing.
Test kits no, though. There were issues with the ones developed internally, for whatever reason, they didn't work properly and we had to go back to the drawing board, which cost us time. That's not on him.
heres my link proving its on trump
Anyone Who Wants a Coronavirus Test Can Have One, Trump Says. Not Quite, Says His Administration.
where is yours proving its not -
waiting ------------
I can do better than one.
Here's 2 and, quite simply, there is a ton of this out there.
What Went Wrong with Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.
"On February 5th, sixteen days after a Seattle resident who had visited relatives in Wuhan, China, was diagnosed as having the first confirmed case of covid-19 in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, began sending diagnostic tests to a network of about a hundred state, city, and county public-health laboratories. Up to that point, all testing for covid-19 in the U.S. had been done at the C.D.C.; of some five hundred suspected cases tested at the Centers, twelve had confirmed positive. The new test kits would allow about fifty thousand patients to be tested, and they would also make testing much faster, as patient specimens would no longer have to be sent to Atlanta to be evaluated.
The kits were shipped in small white cardboard boxes. Inside each box were four vials, packed in stiff gray foam, which held the necessary materials, known as reagents, to run tests on about three hundred people. Before a state or local lab could use the C.D.C.-developed tests on actual patients, however, it had to insure that they worked the same way they had in Atlanta, a process known as verification. The first batch of kits, sent to more than fifty state and local public-health labs, arrived on February 7th. Of the labs that received tests, around six to eight were able to verify that they worked as intended. But a larger number, about thirty-six of them, received inconclusive results from one of the reagents. Another five, including the New York City and New York State labs, had problems with two reagents. On February 8th, several labs reported their problems to the C.D.C. In a briefing a few days later, Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said that although “we hoped that everything would go smoothly as we rushed through this,” the verification problems were “part of the normal procedures.” In the meantime, she said, until new reagents could be manufactured, all covid-19 testing in the United States would continue to take place exclusively at the C.D.C.
The public-health-laboratory network was never intended to provide widespread testing in the event of a pandemic. To offer tests to anyone who wanted them, as
President Trump did, on March 6th, was always going to require commercial testing facilities to come on line. Still, the three-week delay caused by the C.D.C.’s failure to get working test kits into the hands of the public-health labs came at a crucial time...."
'Don't believe the numbers you see': Johns Hopkins professor says up to 500,000 Americans have coronavirus
“The CDC did admit to a mistake in the rollout of the testing and let’s face it — they went with the wrong testing system,” Makary said. “It was an early decision. It lived deep within the CDC and they have acknowledged that mistake.”