Trump doesn't particularly want Americans to be tested for the coronavirus.

[UCmeNdc]

The conclusion here is simple, and has been right on the surface all along: Trump doesn’t particularly want Americans to be tested for the coronavirus. Some pundits and politicians seem unwilling to draw this conclusion, at least in public, in no small part because it doesn’t seem to make sense.

No one is under any illusions that Trump cares about the American public, of course. But mass testing seems like it would clearly be in the president’s self-interest. His best chance at winning re-election is for the economy to be safely reopened, and at least partly recover, before November. But that simply can’t be done without mass testing. Trying to reopen the economy without doing that, as states like Georgia and South Carolina are planning to do, is just likely to cause the virus to spread more rapidly, which will only worsen the economic downturn.



https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/manipulative-trump-is-terrified-of-widespread-coronavirus-testing/

[marybourg]

1. No. His best chance of being re-elected

is if the virus just disappears, or failing that it's just minimized out of mind . It"s the flu. It'll be gone by Easter. It'll be gone by August. It's a hoax. It's the Chinese's fault. It'll be cured by hydroxychloroquine. See a pattern here?

[brush]

2. Not to test is illogical. But so is trump. It's not anymore than that.

The man is blowing his re-election chance and doesn't know it. If he had started aggressive, wide-spread testing, contact tracing and isolation earlier the infection curves could've been coming down all over and phased in re-openings could've been scheduled through to a month or so before the election and he would look like the hero who saved the nation.

But no, he's an idiot who thinks testing et al will hurt him. I repeat, he's an idiot.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. he called it wrong..

[Brother Mythos]

4. True, Comrade Trump is incapable of thinking it through.

As he's totally into instant gratification, critical thinking doesn't even have a starting place.

[DEbluedude]

5. He doesn't want testing.

Coordinated mass testing on a national level would do two things:

#1. Give us confirmation of the actual numbers of people that have the virus. Symptomatic and asymptomatic.
#2. Exemplify, again, just how incompetent this administration is. Look at who is in charge of coordinating the HHS agencies that would administer the tests. A dog breeder.

Shortly after his televised comments, Azar tapped a trusted aide with minimal public health experience to lead the agency’s day-to-day response to COVID-19. The aide, Brian Harrison, had joined the department after running a dog-breeding business for six years. Five sources say some officials in the White House derisively called him “the dog breeder.”

Azar’s optimistic public pronouncement and choice of an inexperienced manager are emblematic of his agency’s oft-troubled response to the crisis. His HHS is a behemoth department, overseeing almost every federal public health agency in the country, with a $1.3 trillion budget that exceeds the gross national product of most countries.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci/special-report-hhs-chief-azar-had-aide-former-dog-breeder-steer-pandemic-task-force-idUSKCN2243CE