WaPo: dumpster shifts testing rhetoric continually....

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Trump shifts coronavirus testing rhetoric again as he encourages some states to reopen - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/17/trump-shifts-coronavirus-testing-rhetoric-again-he-encourages-some-states-reopen/

[SouthernCal_Dem]

1. WOW! This article makes it abundantly clear that we're nowhere near ready to "reopen the economy"

Over the past two weeks, the United States has completed roughly 120,000 to 160,000 tests per day, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Experts have estimated the United States needs to complete 1 million tests per day to reach per capita testing similar to that of South Korea and 22 million tests per day to test the entire U.S. population. Trump’s former FDA administrator Scott Gottlieb has said the United States needs to test roughly 540,000 people per day to reopen the economy.

But even if the United States scales up testing, experts also say widespread contact tracing is needed to contain the virus and prevent future flare-ups.

The United States has roughly 600 officials conducting contact tracing, said Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. China had 9,000 officials doing contact tracing in Wuhan alone, a city of 11 million people.

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2. If trump gets his way, we'll all be infected or dead before the election

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3. His M.O.: Flood the zone with sh*t

Bannon told us that early on.

[Celerity]

4. +100

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5. all deliberate coming from *

one hears, sees, but one cannot wrap their head around how vile and cruel the action/inaction

one can read about dictator types in history, but here we are in real time...