Uh yeah we didn't have a test for a brand new virus right away. The testing by itself wasn't the point though. I am talking about testing on a mass scale. Other countries like Germany or South Korea began mass testing on a weekly basis several weeks before we did. You think it was the US that developed that test for the rest of the world? Uh no. Other countries created their OWN testing.All this study is saying is that we had resources and plan laid out in place in 2019. It doesn’t somehow mean the execution of the response is somehow a reflection of that. The report pre-dated the actual response. The EXECUTION was botched.As a nation we are getting our butts kicked by this virus. It isn't Trump's fault, we simply failed so blatantly miserably to be ready for a pandemic it's mind boggling. I am very very disappointed in my country. We should have been ready years and years ago.
John Hopkins University disagrees with you. Their studies show we were the most prepared in the entire world:
US was more prepared for pandemic than any other country, Johns Hopkins study found
The United States was ranked the best-prepared country in the world to handle a pandemic in late 2019 by the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHU) -- an assessment seemingly at odds with claims by top Democrats that the Trump administration left...www.foxnews.com
1) Hospitals were poorly equipped for the resources RELEVANT to COVID like ventilators.
2) Mass testing on a weekly basis began in other countries long before it happened in the US. Obvious that was critical to stopping the spread.
3) Trump ignored warnings by the government that COVID would be a problem in the US. Trump downplayed it for months and refused to do jack shit. Remember that? Of course you do. You’re just pretending it didn’t happen.
I hate how you douche bags cherry pick studies that fit your narrative and ignore the rest. Grow the fuck up.
The Lost Month: How a Failure to Test Blinded the U.S. to Covid-19 (Published 2020)
Aggressive screening might have helped contain the coronavirus in the United States. But technical flaws, regulatory hurdles and lapses in leadership let it spread undetected for weeks.www.nytimes.com
"But as the deadly virus spread from China with ferocity across the United States between late January and early March, large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did not happen — because of technical flaws, regulatory hurdles, business-as-usual bureaucracies and lack of leadership at multiple levels, according to interviews with more than 50 current and former public health officials, administration officials, senior scientists and company executives."
When we finally realized it was a problem, we had test kits. The problem was we had only one kind that was approved by the FDA. Those kits were manufactured through the CDC. You know how these bureaucracies wash each others back.
When it was discovered that this only test kit allowed by the FDA was defective, Trump had to start from scratch to find us different ones. The problem with that was, so was the rest of the world.
When he finally found companies willing to help us, the Fn FDA still stalled in their approval process instead of fast-tracking it.
Ventilators: You are referring to the NYC ventilator potential shortage. Did you know that they had ample supply, but because of the cost to test and maintain that equipment, they sold all their ventilators off? Again, Trump went into the problem head on.
Do I remember Trump downplaying the virus? Yes I do. Do you remember Piglosi, Cuomo, and DeBlasio doing the same thing? Do you remember that the House spent the first two weeks of March trying to pass a bill to strip Trump's authority to issue travel bans?
President Trump ignored nothing. He acted on every advisory of our medical experts such as Fauci, Brix, and even the CDC.
And no, I mean nationwide we had a shortage of testing. Hell even Fox News confirms this because the article goes well with a narrative:
Federal agencies warned of ventilator shortages for nearly two decades
While President Trump has faced criticism for states like New York being in short supply of ventilators, federal agencies have been predicting the need for more ventilators for nearly two decades.
www.foxnews.com
Pelosi definitely didn't touch the subject early on, but guess what? It was Trump, not Pelosi, who got those intelligence briefings. Trump had a better idea than Pelosi about the threat itself.
Oh now you're saying Trump ignored nothing? Are you listening to yourself? You and I both know he sat on his ass about the virus for weeks. He called it a Democrat hoax at first. Then he said it wasn't a big deal and it would magically disappear.