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lindysalsagal

(20,680 posts) Wed Oct 28, 2020, 07:53 AM Oct 2020

WAPO OP ED: Trump administration's four most profound failures in the pandemic

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/27/here-are-trump-administrations-four-most-profound-failures-pandemic/

1. no testing
2. Denial
3. Blame the states
4. Undermine expertise

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WAPO OP ED: Trump administration's four most profound failures in the pandemic (Original Post) lindysalsagal Oct 2020 OP

I'm not so sure that the administration views these as failures. n/t Yonnie3 Oct 2020 #1

1a. Dissing masks (and setting a poor example) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #2

I would add not using Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPEs and other essentials, tanyev Oct 2020 #3

Grifting needs to be added to the list, it was critical in the lack of testing and PPE. lark Oct 2020 #4

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)

1. I'm not so sure that the administration views these as failures. n/t

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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 08:05 AM

Oct 2020

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)

2. 1a. Dissing masks (and setting a poor example)

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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 09:08 AM

Oct 2020

tanyev

(42,552 posts)

3. I would add not using Defense Production Act to ramp up production of PPEs and other essentials,

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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 10:00 AM

Oct 2020

and then interfering with the states' efforts to obtain what they needed.

lark

(23,097 posts)

4. Grifting needs to be added to the list, it was critical in the lack of testing and PPE.

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Wed Oct 28, 2020, 10:08 AM

Oct 2020

They sold PPE to China when it was needed here. When China returned the favor, the materials went to a 3rd party friend of JarJars who raised prices x15 and you know damn well JarJar & Traitor Tot took a big cut. They also delayed testing until Jared's brothers' version was done and then it was inaccurate and it took another month to fix it and meantime almost no testing was happening while the disease spread rampantly through the nation.

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