Will Corona cases go down by April?

@UnlikelyTomato Because of its incubation period the virus is always two weeks ahead of what you see from day to day.

I’m wondering when the Americans will wake up and realise the gravity of their situation.

Their narcissistic buffoon is already looking for someone else to take the blame for his paralysed incompetence, while he takes the credit for everyone else’s efforts.

My guess wold be that Fauci will be the first to be thrown under the bus.

@newjaninev2 no argument here, our government really dropped the ball on this one, the worst part is everyone suffers for it.

When things start getting bad people will begin taking it more seriously, but i'm worried about panic, paranoia and influencers turned dangerous conspiracy theorists.

@UnlikelyTomato still, it’s not like Americans have easy access to firearms 😂

@UnlikelyTomato The government didn't drop any ball. Somethings are simply beyond human control.

@hippyjoe1955 the decision to act is not beyond control.
In situations like this, acting late is almost as bad as doing nothing.

A lot of people could have been saved.

@UnlikelyTomato Not true. If we panicked at every threat we would be a complete wreck. We must examine what we are up against and take appropriate action. Yes some people will die from the illness but there are other causes of death and destruction that can be the result of us taking rash actions.

@hippyjoe1955 waiting as long as they did to introduce lock downs will lead to many hundreds of thousands sick, the hospitals won't be able to treat everyone who is sick with covid or even those without it for that matter.

when something like this spreads at near double the rate every few days, you CAN NOT wait to see what happens.

It is not panic to act quickly, panic is acting without a plan or in a manor that leads to bad decisions.

Never confuse haste with panic.

@UnlikelyTomato Politics is the art of the possible. Don't forget that Trump was vilified for closing the border when he did. Trudeau still hasn't closed the border.

@hippyjoe1955 Trump disbanded a pandemic response group at the beginning of his presidency. we totally didn't need something like that, did we.

Just cause someone is in a position of influence and control, does not mean they know what they are doing, or can do it right.

I don't know much about canadian politics but I do know they are only letting cargo and medical staff to cross the boarder, so in effect it is locked down.

@UnlikelyTomato actually he disbanded a committee that wasn't working. No one was fired and none of the expertise was lost. When the pandemic was first observed the same people met and discussed and came up with a plan. You think the plan was inadequate which may point to Trump being right when he disbanded the committee. If you think that somehow Trump is flying by the seat of his pants and ignoring advice you are not aware or what goes on in the whitehouse. His advisers all say that he listens to them. Now in a room of 15 experts you likely have 16 different opinions as to what the best course of action is. The job of the potus is to pick the best option. Did Trump pick the right one? Time will tell. Pelosi and Nadler were telling people to mix and mingle long after Trump told everyone to begin social distancing. I suspect he did that because he is a germophobe.

@hippyjoe1955 right, cause governments never make mistakes.
You do realize he was serious about lifting the lockdown this week back when it was obvious to literally everyone that it was a shit idea.
intended or not it made him look like an idiot.

@UnlikelyTomato So he should have been. He has since been persuaded otherwise. You seem to have trouble with Trump. Do you need some butt hurt salve. I saw a can of it on here today.

@hippyjoe1955 I don't believe any position of authority is immune to fault or beyond criticism, skepticism and judgment.

Whether or not I like the current government, I will judge them for not heeding to the writing on the wall at the start.

@UnlikelyTomato So all this bleating is about?????

@hippyjoe1955 I don't know anymore, I don't like arguing about politics.

@UnlikelyTomato Huh. Which goes back to my point that regardless of the government there is no perfect response to any crisis. We can always second guess their actions. We can go back and blame Obama for the H1N1 disaster. or Clinton/Bush for 911 or Carter for the Iran crisis or WWII on Roosevelt or Hoover for the great depression.

@hippyjoe1955 of course there is no perfect plan for stuff like this.
but the key to stop a sickness from spreading out of control, is to stop it from infecting very many people in the first place.
What's worse about this virus is that it's spread without people knowing they are sick, thousands can be infected and contagious and not even know it, and each can infect a few to over a hundred people before symptoms show.

in times of crisis, some form of immediate action is necessary to both limit the damage early, and reassure the people that things are under control.

As it stands, they are not.

@UnlikelyTomato Yes indeed. As we’ve discussed, the incubation period is 14 days, which means that we are always 2 weeks behind the actual state of play.

Measuring what the virus is doing today is responding to information that is already a fortnight old, so the response is constantly at risk of being too little too late.

Here in New Zealand (with brilliant leadership on our side) we went early, and we went hard.

Our Prime Minister didn’t deny the problem, she didn’t make a fool of herself by reading a list of grocers she knows personally while her staff stood behind her in blue overalls and looking stupid, she didn’t identify a ‘really beautiful date’, and she didn’t become more preoccupied in shifting blame and taking unearned credit than in fixing the problem.

@newjaninev2 glad to see someone is more concerned about people's lives, than the popularity contest of politics.

@UnlikelyTomato If you think @newjaninev2 AKA Cleopatra is sincere you are more than a little deceived. Tomorrow she will deny this position just like she has every other position she proposes.

@hippyjoe1955 i don't want to fight.
maybe she's fake, maybe she's not.
but I have no reason to trust you any more than her.

@hippyjoe1955 Which ‘position’ is that, Joe?