There are many, many reasons for DiBlasio not to shut down New York too early. Neither of which include him thinking the virus is a hoax, or wanting New Yorkers to die.
I guess that conservatives with their limited intellect, can't fathom the idea of a multiple choice with more than two options. When I was working with disabled children, I was told to give them three choices, to make them think they were in control, but that I was really the one in controll since I stipulated the options.
His only point is NOBODY knew how this could get. It was like 911. It was something nobody could fathom. It's not Trump's fault, it's not Cuomo's fault, it's not DeBlaahhhzio's fault, it's not Newsom's fault. The only people responsible are the Chinese.
Nobody took it seriously until it became a problem here, and that includes all the leading Democrats. You on the left are trying to make this out as if Trump was too stupid to see the problem ahead of time, even though every Democrat did the same as the President.
If it's "nobody's fault" but the Chinese, how is it that everyone other first world country in the world did a better job at controlling the virus, and a better job at curing the virus than the USA. The current rate of death to closed cases in the USA is currently 29%, which is down from a high of 37% a week ago. But this is still a higher rate of death than either Spain or Italy, the difference being that the USA still has 880,000 active cases, versus 210,000 closed cases, while both Spain and Italy both have more closed cases than active.
The rate of death is still rising in the USA, but the US has a long long way to go to reach and the number of active cases continues to rise. And yet of all of the countries in the world, the USA is the only country in the world where there are pubic demonstrations to re-open.
It is not the job of the Democrats to lead the nation's fight in a "National Emergency". Donald Trump declared a National Emergency on March 15th, which means that the Trump and Trump alone was supposed to be leading the national response to the pandemic. Not only did Trump immediately hand the job off to Mike Pence, he then proceeded to spend hours in the daily briefings touting unproven malaria drugs which ended up KILLING more people than it cured, and proved to be of limited benefit to anyone. Then he suggested "getting disinfectants inside people", and other idiot ideas, which his cult like followers immediately seize upon and promote.
Trump keeps blaming everyone but Trump is the guy who made the decision to call 40,000 Americans home from China, but didn't test them when they got here. Trump is the guy who decided not to use the WHO tests which lead to the mess with testing in the USA that endures all these months later. Trump is the guy who now says states are on their own because he doesn't have a ******* clue how to fix this, and he wants to blame someone else, not him.
After all, if not for the Constitution, he COULD have ordered the states to do what he wanted to fix it. And then he could have done a better job.
What's with this Trump, Trump, Trump thing? The US had experts and bureaucracies that led the charge. Trump is not a doctor, an infectious disease expert. He leaves it to them to call the shots. The WHO test kits? It was the FDA that only permitted one test kit to be used, and that was the CDC test kits, which resulted in complete failure. But you know how these bureaucracies look out for each other.
My only point with Democrats is they didn't know how serious it would be either. I never said they led the charge for the country, but they did lead the charge for their cities and states. The lefts assertion to use this tragedy to advance their political agenda is Trump should have known more than every Democrat leader in our country.
New York City auctioned off hundreds of city-owned ventilators at least five years ago under Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, according to an investigation by ProPublica. The …
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The United States is currently considering any death related to Covid-19 a Covid death. They are not doing that in other countries. If you have a heart attack, die on the way to the hospital, and your blood work comes back with Covid in it, they consider it a Covid death.
The Biden campaign referred us to a Politico article that said the WHO shipped coronavirus tests to nearly 60 countries at the end of February, but the U.S. was not among them. That is technically correct, but it suggests that the United States would have been on the list under any circumstances.
The countries WHO helped are ones that lack the virology lab horsepower that exists across the United States. The outreach work by the Pan American Health Organization is a case in point.
The group is WHO’s arm in the Americas. It conducted trainings and sent materials to conduct tests to 29 nations. The list included Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and many others.
The group said it focused most of its efforts on “countries with the weakest health systems.”
“No discussions occurred between WHO and CDC about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the United States,” said WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris. “This is consistent with experience since the United States does not ordinarily rely on WHO for reagents or diagnostic tests because of sufficient domestic capacity.”
Biden’s statement leaves out context about how countries decided on which test they’d use to identify the presence of the coronavirus.
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Now quit listening to liars and start watching Fox News. You will be more informed that way.
First off Ray, I watch and read the WORLD media, not American media. FOX News are the ones who are lying to you Ray, and they're parrotting a Trump friendly spin that has no basis in reality, but let's focus just on Trump's bad decisions around testing:
1. The decision not to use the WHO test is based on money. Trump could have had the WHO tests manufactured in the USA and distributed them to hospitals and ports of entry throughout the country, but
there was more money to be made by US medical suppliers if the USA owns the exclusive rights to the test, so rather than buying into the testing system used in the rest of the world, Trump went with what could make more money for Big Pharma.
2. Trump fired all of the top trained people at the CDC and installed Dr. Redfield as Director - an appointment which was questioned at the time because Dr. Redfield lacked both the experience, and a good record in public health. The people Trump fired had experience with the Ebola Outbreak and with H1N1, but they were "disloyal". Dr. Redfield is the guy at the CDC who fucked up the testing roll out. Dr. Faucci heads up the search for vaccines and cures as the head of Infectious Disease control, but has nothing to do with testing. Dr. Birx was hired by Mike Pence AFTER he was appointed as head of the Corona Virus task force.
3. Trump made the decision to open up testing to the various drug companies and let everyone develop their own tests, and market them to hospitals and states, instead of requiring CDC approval prior to sale. The labs would police themselves on the effectiveness of the tests. The ultimate "free market approach".
This has lead to an inconsistent patchwork testing mess with every laboratory needing to train states on individual systems. Many tests require special equipment to process, which means a capital investment by the states, something they're reluctant to do without knowing in advance whether the tests they're being sold actually work as advertised. The testing mess has only gottent worse under this free market free for all.
Yesterday the State Governors demanded that the CDC re-assert its right to approve all testing, with one testing system nationwide. The much touted Abbott Laboratories "15-minute test", is only 80% accurate. Every lab has a different system, and the states have no idea which tests work best or what their accuracy rate is.
4. Trump has washed his hands of testing and says it's now up to the states. Meanwhile, in Canada, our labs are busy turning out WHO tests, and our province is preparing to reopen. We have never been without tests, we did not close our borders to people coming from China, we just made them test when they got here and quarantined them for two weeks even if they tested negative.
