Quote Originally Posted by Maverick View Post
I've seen a lot of people on this board go political in some form or fashion. For the ones doing that what would you have asked our government to do differently? I'm not saying pick a side just what the heck was supposed to had been done.

It's my understanding they closed off travel to and from China early. Literally every other country is having problems with this. Why is it that our country gets blasted by its own people for not getting it right when nobody else has either?

Our testing procedure was obviously way too slow at first. That's being sped up more and more each day. People are freaking out every day that the numbers are grown. It's pretty simple to know that as testing becomes more available the numbers will go up more quickly. Also, only 10% of people taking the test are testing positive and 90% are negative.

Our private sector is getting involved here and I just don't feel like I've ever seen anything like this happen before. Private lab companies making tests, GM and Ford making ventilators, Haynes and 3M making masks. Who would've ever thought we were gonna need that from those companies? Heck I'll add the possibility of cruise lines, hotels, and schools being used as temporary hospitals....

Correct me if I wrong but it doesn't sound like there was much communication from China at all. It also sounds like China did a lot of things to make this seem like it wasn't so bad.

We all saw the stuff when it started there but they have 4 times the population there so it would be logical to think it could spread fast in an area so dense. Comparing our country to others is kind of like comparing apples to oranges.

I'm just trying to figure that out since some of y'all appear to be so smart....
Well, for starters, I would have liked him to not call it a hoax and say there's no problem for a full two months. I would like some actual decent human being policies being passed in response. Universal Basic Income for starters. Mandatory Paid Sick Leave. I mean jesus christ, the senators who make laws ASKED jeff bezos to provide sick leave. They literally help write the laws. ****ing tell him to provide it. They have that power. Beyond that, the fact that we turned down testing kits from other countries and had our leaders look for a way to help their friends be the ones providing testing kits, which are slower with results... just wow. Focused on the dollar instead of American lives. Don't even get me started on the insider trading bullshit. And then you loop back to the universal basic income where it's going off of 2018 tax returns? (HUH?... just give every American citizen $1k.) and poor people will get LESS??? (again double HUH?... just give every American citizen $1k.) Seriously. It's an easy policy and really hard to **** up. Give out that $1k free to every American (kid's $1k gets given to their parent.) Boom. The end.

Seriously. Every step of the way has been botched. Initial response was slow. They helped friends get out of stock market first. They voted against bills helping people. They ruined good ideas that will help people.

Now we're looking at Americans being royally ****ed on two fronts. 1, this thing has spread. 2, the economy is in disarray. Both of those things could have been prevented. At worst only 1 should have been ****ed up.

Lockdown everywhere as soon as there was spread. Isolate cases. Mass use other countries test kits. This would have prevented the spread. Economy would have had a mishap.

Let the thing go and run it's course completely. Airlines are the only economy really taking a dip. Act like it's just the flu and tell people to get over it. America churns as usual. (This is honestly what I expected and it would have happened had sports not stopped and said no.)

Since we had such a delayed response, the ****ing NBA had to do what our government wouldn't. Let that sink in. Sports handled this better than the government. They didn't worry about profits. They worried about people. Our government did the opposite.

Once people stop electing leaders who put their faith in god (and I do mean lowercase g, their god is money) and maybe put actual leaders who put their faith and policies centered around actual God then we'll have an America to be proud of again.

You can argue and say God doesn't like homosexuality and abortion and whatever else you associate with being a Democrat as anti-God, but tell me what the first ****ing commandment is. And tell me the money worshipping in this country doesn't break that. But yea, things like communism and socialism are the real Anti-God. Heaven doesn't have universal healthcare or basic income.