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"Eh. I think if we actually had a competent person handling this the death toll would not be significantly different. It might be spread out over a "
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pmb
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The tests. The potential vaccine. The PPEs. The hospitals closing trend. Any prez could have lined up supply and demand solutions to these problems
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con_carne
Apr 27 '20, 16:25
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given enough time and attention. Trump had the time, he didn't give the attention.
We live in a world where both Democrats and Republicans are under pressure to provide capitalistic solutions to problems. So supply and demand can be lined up, maybe even perfectly. Somebody could have gotten lined up ahead of time to make and store the PPE. So we wanted to make our own test and ignore the German one. Fine, but go ahead and line up some companies or whatever who might want to do it! For fuck's sake, at least put the word out!
But what Trump did was lackadaisically do nothing and wait for CEOs to "step up" or something. Anyway, Trump did a whole lot of nothing for months while he could have been mobilizing the corporate community, such as it is.
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