The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

[Johnson85]

What has he produced with the DPA?

Why are govenors having to get their own supplies.

We still cannot do more than 150,000 tests in a day.
To reopen, per the white house, we have to do 10x that.



We have vents due to social distancing..

Trump has done nothing .

No coordination.

Everyone is left to figure it out on their own.

That's on trump

It is pretty crazy that Trump just puts out a bunch of information with no orders. He acts like the federal government doesn't have general police authority and that the states are primarily in charge of situations like this. That orange 17er is just sitting there letting the federal government put out information and provide support when clearly what we need is a nationwide, one size fits all approach to make sure NYC and Moscow, Idaho have the same approach.


ETA: Not that Trump has done anything particularly well I don't think. I think most presidents would have more or less listened to subject matter experts. I don't think the inadequacies at the CDC have to do with Trump's appointment. I think they've had mission creep for a long time and focused on things other than infectious diseases, and they 17ed up. I don't think any president would have come in there and managed to reform CDC. The federal leviathon is just too big to manage in that way and it's highly unlikely that we would have had a president elected that was focused on the CDC. THis is just another thing where we are overly reliant on the permanent bureaucracy.