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nightmarefish
f course both the Chinese numbers and American numbers are fugazi. What is more important is why. The American phony numbers are a result of a health system that has been overwhelmed and unprepared to deal with an imported pandemic. This has been exacerbated by a mostly incompetent political administration in Washington who seem hell bent to minimize the damage whatever the reality in the streets.
The Chinese numbers are a deliberate attempt to minimize their responsibility for causing this pandemic. If the mainstream media continues to use these numbers, the CCP will have the cover it needs not to make changes to their food supply and there will be another Chinese pandemic in a few years.
The American refusal to use available testing to people who clearly show all the signs of covid-19 are no different than the Chinese fudging of numbers, and its disingenuous to claim otherwise, IMO. The federal government has set clear guidelines on who to test and who not to test given available resources, and those with all the symptoms are, over and over again, denied available tests. Even people who died as a direct result of covid-19 aren't being tested, so as to keep the death toll down. This is a fact. Tests are available for this purpose, but they are not being used for this purpose.
The inability to get tested starts at the December 2019 meeting just before Christmas where the president was told exactly what was going on in China so far and the obvious eventuality of what was going to happen around the world. People crow about 'nobody knew what was going to happen,' except everything that has happened has happened according to the pandemic numbers that many, many people had warned about in recent years. The inherent threat was why the last administration created a new branch of govt to specifically address pandemics, but Trump closed shop on that a few years ago, because he closed everything Obama opened, because that's what Trump does. That's not even arguable.
Our government was offered a massive amount of tests from the WHO when this shit first started getting out of control, but we refused them, so we could come up with our own. Think about that shit for a second. We were given the option of fully operational, known to be accurate tests, developed by Germany I think, but we passed them up, so we could come up with our own. That's a decision that kills people. There's no real argument there. We could have gotten ahead of the thing, but we (by executive decision) got behind the thing, and denied the thing the entire time. We started making tests MONTHS after we could have started. We could have had the South Korea response, hell, he could have had the best response in the world given our resources, but we did not and we do not.
Do you know how many tests we could have by the end of the month if the president did the right thing and declared it to be the emergency that it is, and used his powers appropriately? We would have had MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF TESTS by now. If we had tests, we would have the correct numbers. If we had the right numbers, people would realize the threat that we actually have. Hell, the pres won't even use his powers to get ventilators to hospitals that need them, nevermind tests.
Bitch about China all you want, this event was foreseen, it was planned for, those plans were torn to shreds and no new plans were made, and now the federal government talks about re-opening everything when everything should be closing.
At this moment, our federal government is handling this threat no better than the Chinese government, and the case can easily be made that we are making it way worse.
