Sounds like US was best prepared for pandemic

[KCfromNC]

Why would anyone shut down intra-state movement? Didn’t the President of the United States say just 30 days ago that we only had 15 cases?

Don't worry, "by April, you know in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away"

 

[KCfromNC]

I didnt see Nancy Pelosi informing the public.

This excuses Donald's failure how?

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Don't worry, "by April, you know in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away"

Looking forward to Wednesday! We can all say buy-buy to the Chai-nugh virus!

 

[rjs330]

Looking forward to Wednesday! We can all say buy-buy to the Chai-nugh virus!

Suh-weet!

 

[Need answers]

Corona viruses dont typically induce cold symptoms in people during the warmer months, but usually in the winter and spring.

About The Common Cold | Villanova University

Coronaviruses are believed to cause a large percentage of all adult colds. They induce colds primarily in the winter and early spring. Of the more than 30 isolated strains, three or four infect humans. The importance of coronaviruses as causative agents is hard to assess because, unlike rhinoviruses, they are difficult to grow in the laboratory.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Despite these and other extreme steps, the United States will likely go down as the country that was supposedly best prepared to fight a pandemic but ended up catastrophically overmatched by the novel coronavirus, sustaining heavier casualties than any other nation.

It did not have to happen this way. Though not perfectly prepared, the United States had more expertise, resources, plans and epidemiological experience than dozens of countries that ultimately fared far better in fending off the virus.

The failure has echoes of the period leading up to 9/11: Warnings were sounded, including at the highest levels of government...

[of Trump's early false-hopeful messages]

“Denial is not likely to be a successful strategy for survival,” GOP pollster Neil Newhouse concluded in a document that was shared with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill and discussed widely at the White House. Trump’s most ardent supporters, it said, were “putting themselves and their loved ones in danger.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

Ford, 3M, GE and the UAW to build respirators, ventilators and face shields for coronavirus fight – TechCrunch

Should we have done it earlier? Maybe. Was the president advised to do this earlier? Did h refuse to do it earlier?

[post from March 26.]

Yes.

Cuomo is one of a growing group of officials to call for Trump to order companies to produce medical supplies under the Defense Production Act, a law that allows the federal government to compel private industry to produce materials needed for national defense.

However, it is not clear that the president has done anything.

Trump has issued an executive order that invokes the Defense Production Act, but it’s unclear if it has been used.

LINK

More than a week after President Donald Trump said he would authorize the use of a wartime-era law to force General Motors to produce ventilators, the company still hasn't received a formal order from the federal government. GM, as a result, hasn't allowed private companies or hospitals to place orders, according to a source familiar with the matter.

He still hasn't done it. Would you agree that he has been advised to do it? And has refused to do it?

 

[Need answers]

LINK

More than a week after President Donald Trump said he would authorize the use of a wartime-era law to force General Motors to produce ventilators, the company still hasn't received a formal order from the federal government. GM, as a result, hasn't allowed private companies or hospitals to place orders, according to a source familiar with the matter.

He still hasn't done it. Would you agree that he has been advised to do it? And has refused to do it?

Invoking the act will not likely affect how quickly GM can produce the complex machines. The company announced earlier Friday it was still moving forward with efforts to make ventilators, despite the pause in talks with the White House. GM still has to retool its factories to be able to make ventilators, since it currently doesn't produce them, and experts have warned they cannot be made quickly.

 

[Need answers]

(DETROIT) — President Donald Trump issued an order Friday that seeks to force General Motors to produce ventilators for coronavirus patients under the Defense Production Act. Trump Seeks to Force General Motors to Produce Ventilators



The Detroit automaker is farthest along in the effort to make more of the critical breathing machines. It’s working with Ventec Life Systems, a small Seattle-area ventilator maker to increase the company’s production and repurpose a GM auto electronics plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to make the machines. The company said Friday it could build 10,000 ventilators per month starting in April with potential to make even more.

After Trump invoked the act, GM said in a statement that it has been working around the clock for more than a week with Ventec and parts suppliers to build more ventilators. The company said its commitment to build Ventec’s ventilators “has never wavered.”

Trump said that while the White House activated the act against GM, it may not be needed. “Maybe we won’t even need the full activation. We’ll find out,” Trump said Friday in the Oval office.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

LINK

More than a week after President Donald Trump said he would authorize the use of a wartime-era law to force General Motors to produce ventilators, the company still hasn't received a formal order from the federal government. GM, as a result, hasn't allowed private companies or hospitals to place orders, according to a source familiar with the matter.

He still hasn't done it. Would you agree that he has been advised to do it? And has refused to do it?

Did they check their Twitter yet?

 

[pitabread]

“Denial is not likely to be a successful strategy for survival,” GOP pollster Neil Newhouse concluded in a document that was shared with GOP leaders on Capitol Hill and discussed widely at the White House. Trump’s most ardent supporters, it said, were “putting themselves and their loved ones in danger.”

Funny how reality has a habit of b-itch slapping denialists (esp. science denialists) upside the head from time to time.

 

[eclipsenow]

Best prepared? With your President? Seriously? Australia's ABC just informed us all that he finally stopped talking about opening up the economy by Easter as his medical experts warned it would increase your fatality rate to 2.2 million!

Basically it appears America's Bill of Rights induced proclivity to be individualistic and self-focussed has made America the slowest country to introduce lock downs. You have the fastest rate of acceleration, the highest infection numbers and soon the highest death numbers. Because apparently everything is about freedom of movement and "my individual rights" rather than putting in for the common-good. Well, individualism meet reality!

 

[Robban]

It appears America was best prepared for this pandemic than any one else in the world. We had processes and procedures in place to deal with this sort of thing. That's of course no thanks to any one person or president but a work of our government as a whole. So for those claiming we were I'll prepared and it was all of Trump's fault, we actually we're very prepared as of 2019. So as long as we followed our policies and procedures, which I'm sure we have it appears the leftists are barking up the wrong tree with the blame game.

That's not to say we can't be better. Ranking #1 in the world just means we were the best, it doesn't mean we have achieved everything we could. It appears we definitely need to make more changes in the way we do things and have those processes in place for the next one. I am confident we will.
US was ranked the best-prepared country for a pandemic in late 2019 by a Johns Hopkins study

The best prepared yaht in the marina is the one that never leaves the marina.