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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:11 PM Mar 2020

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Its the testing, STUPID!

Trump simply does not get it. This is the most important thing the government could do right now.

If they started mass testing right now there would be a steep rise in the number of people infected. It would shock everyone, it would hurt the economy. However, after that initial shock we would have a chance to get a handle on things and the number of cases of infected people would start to flatten out. That would calm things down. We could have a short term panic instead of a long term panic.

What Trump is doing now is slow walking the testing which will continue to show rising cases over a longer period of time and it could allow the virus to spin out of control. It is the worst thing he can do.

Can someone, anyone, tell Trump, Its the testing STUPID!

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Its the testing, STUPID! (Original Post) shockey80 Mar 2020 OP

Trump's obsession with the next 24 hours' headlines, instead of 24 days or 24 weeks is RockRaven Mar 2020 #1

"Trump simply does not get it." Stevegberg Mar 2020 #2

There's a couple of people who I've had contact with that I wish could get tested, but they can't AnotherMother4Peace Mar 2020 #3

I think it's more that he just doesn't care. Crunchy Frog Mar 2020 #4

RockRaven

(14,906 posts)

1. Trump's obsession with the next 24 hours' headlines, instead of 24 days or 24 weeks is

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:20 PM

Mar 2020

making this problem worse at every turn and is going to get a lot of people killed.

Stevegberg

(80 posts)

2. "Trump simply does not get it."

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:21 PM

Mar 2020

End of discussion.

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,238 posts)

3. There's a couple of people who I've had contact with that I wish could get tested, but they can't

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:22 PM

Mar 2020

because they don't meet the criteria.

Crunchy Frog

(26,578 posts)

4. I think it's more that he just doesn't care.

Reply to shockey80 (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2020, 01:37 PM

Mar 2020

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