"Only a crisis (like COVID-19), actual or perceived, produces real change" -- Milton Friedman [View all]

[Auggie]

Quote continues:

"When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/110844-only-a-crisis---actual-or-perceived---produces-real

TrumpCo is not delaying/hampering coronavirus testing and treatment out of incompetence. This health crisis represents enormous profit potential to them.

It also represents opportunity to alter/change legislation, tax codes, entitlement programs, etc.

They're looking for the best way to exploit the crisis. The worse it gets, the easier it will be to promote their pro-corporate policies.

IMHO.

ON EDIT: yes, I altered the quote.