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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:45 AM Mar 2020

The real scandal: TESTING!

As everyone has noted, our ability to test for the novel coronavirus was meager compared to China, South Korea &c.

Why?

Was it just the CDC error in the first kits as well as FDA regulations?

Bullsh*t!

Why didn't we accept and replicate the World Heath Organization's testing formula?

I see one answer behind all of this: our administration's incompetence.

Trump may not deserve to be removed from office because of the coronavirus, but because of his administration's decision not to accept/replicate the WHO tests.

The number of times Trump talks about how "brilliant" our tests are, tells me he probably made the decision to reject the WHO tests.

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The real scandal: TESTING! (Original Post) skip fox Mar 2020 OP
South Korea was testing 100k a day! Takket Mar 2020 #1
He had to switch vendors to a company he owns a stake in. lark Mar 2020 #2

Takket

(21,573 posts)
1. South Korea was testing 100k a day!
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:49 AM
Mar 2020

And doing it in drive thrus!!!! Drumpf has buried are heads in the sand and everyone know it.

lark

(23,102 posts)
2. He had to switch vendors to a company he owns a stake in.
Wed Mar 11, 2020, 09:52 AM
Mar 2020

That's why he's defending it, it was his choice to reject what they had, develop something new (that didn't work) that he could personally profit from, rework the product and still not getting it out in the quantitites needed. This was all him from the get go, he wants to make money off this and to downplay it until the election, then use it to cut taxes and screw us over again, and to call a national emergency and shut down the elections. SCOTUS has already said they won't second guess him and if he says it's an emergency, that's the end of the story. I know it's not legal, but then neither is it legal for him to steal money from the military and put it on the wall and Russian Repug SCOTUS has already said that's ok. There's nothing he would do that they wouldn't approve, nothing.

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