Dude. The tests that existed were only made as a measure with limited supply. They did not know that the entire US population would require one (or several) within the span of a few weeks
I have a question for all the libs: what should any president have done at this point and why would it be any different...
Nathan Jackson
John Hill
>I have a question for all the libs:
Your question isn't FOR the libs.
Your question is for anybody who has been a leader, anybody with medical knowledge, and really it's for anybody whose head isn't up their stupid ass.
What should a president have done?
- Take advice from those who know
- Tell the truth
- Coordinate with other countries
- Prepare
Is that too much to ask? By this stage, ASSASSINATING him would save millions of Americans.
Xavier Taylor
Oh hey FBI. What’s up guys?
Henry Rodriguez
Just imagine how Obama would have handled it, and you can instantly see the difference. This question would have come up months ago in daily/weekly press briefings -- something Trump has refused to do for over a year before being forced into it now -- giving everyone some idea what was going on as things got worse. Obama/Bush/Clinton or any other reasonably capable leader would have been doing the stuff that Trump is scrambling to do know weeks earlier. They would be acting in concert with the Fed, presenting a unified front, to minimize the damage to the economy. They would be working with the best speechwriters to deliver panic-reducing messaging. Trump simply can't do that, as we all saw from his trainwreck oval office address. A good leader also wouldn't be blaming everyone else for this mess. Maybe he didn't personally cause it, but people really aren't interested in whose fault it is, they want to know what he's going to actually do. In a functioning presidency, we'd be seeing him meeting with the House and Senate, actually hammering out the deals. Trump doesn't do that, so everyone is left guessing -- hoping, really -- that he's actually doing something behind the scenes.
For the record, I think the man is doing everything he can right now. He's starting to act like a president, doing president stuff. I totally disagree with virtually all of his policies and positions, but at least he's finally started doing the actual job in a public way, rather than just trolling on Twitter. I suspect he's starting to understand why the programs he's always raging about exist in first place.
Joshua Kelly
>Also we have the lowest death rate in the world as compared to the infected
BULL SHIT.
You have no fucking IDEA what is your death rate, your infectoin rate, or where to find your collective dick.
Information comes from TESTS.
You have hardly any TESTS.
South Korea are the only ones who know how this virus acts, because they test as many as possible, sick or not.
Dominic Rogers
As a non-American, I was amazed Trump was still calling it a hoax, and claiming the 50 cases it had at one point "would go down", when things were already escalating fast in Europe.
It was already at that point 100% predictable covid-19 would become a major issue in the US.
Also since the US botched testing and did a LOT less of that than European countries, they gravely underestimated the number of infected up until last week.
Over the last week I think his actions have been reasonable actually, and do help. It's just so late that your healthcare system is bound to get overwhelmed anyway.
Isaiah Torres
>europeans have a better diet and sport habits than murricans
yeah yeah you're a bunch of fucking supermen
Aiden Murphy
Nah, Pence would nuke San Francisco if he assumes office. I’d be ok with that though
Jonathan Fisher
Secret Service is the agency that investigates assassination threats. user probably isn't American, though.
Dominic Barnes
> By January, people who keep up with current events already knew just how bad it was.
Amen to that.
This attached picture is a meme that I created on January 23 and posted here.