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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (156937)3/21/2020 8:30:22 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (3) of 354089
 
>> The testing is a fucking failure.

It WAS a failure. Not a failure of the president. A failure due entirely to relying on he bureaucracy of government rather than the private enterprise infrastructure we have.

However, Taiwan's success is not a product of testing. It is a result of being able to quarantine an entire country, to slam the door shut instantly on travel fromWuhan and even back date travel from Wuhan and locate every person who had come from the area in recent weeks.

And they had reacted to another serious threat previously after which their tiny government took action to prepare for the next. Our FDA and CDC could never adapt like that because of our rotating political leadership.

Now, you want to blame Trump but the reality is the kinds of changes needed to accommodate a situation like this would take years. In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates warned of this very situation. No one did anything.

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You you should quit your politically motivated whining and start thinking about the next time around and how we should make things different for those who survive this time.

Taiwan acted prudently. But it isn’t something that could be replicated by the US.
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