Coronavirus killed 1500 Americans in the last 24 hours.

@MarmeeMarch The panel that was doing that study actually didn't recommend buying more ventilators. They noted the projected shortfall and said buying more ventilators would be pointless because there would not be enough qualified people to run them.

But it doesn't really matter. The problem with once-in-a-century emergencies is that it's very expensive to stay prepared for them. Nobody is. Usually we lean on the feds when stuff happens, that's what they're there for - but when it hits the whole country, the feds are also in the same boat. No matter who was in the white house, we would have been caught out low on supplies.

Trump's fault here is the criminally slow response in the beginning, when he was happily resting on his laurels after banning flights from China, despite a unanimous outcry from our medical professionals that the virus was still coming. That's when we most needed an aggressive response.

@QuixoticSoul I dont know why you are saying that - Jan 21 the first virus hits us in Washington - Jan 29 Trump issues a statement about creating a Covid task force...and prior to Jan 21 when China first discovered it the WHO and the CDC were monitoring the situation...

@MarmeeMarch If the admin and its task force had done their jobs, we wold have been more like South Korea - instead we've outdone Italy.

@QuixoticSoul IDK - Italy , Germany and Spain are all showing a slight bend in the curve toward flatlandsville. We are increasing cases but not to the extent as we did last week. It is slowing down.

@MarmeeMarch Yes, that's what I mean. We've done worse than [i]Italy[/i]. Italy is one of my favorite countries on the planet but those fuckers are incredibly disorganized and incompetent on any sort of scale past individual artisanry. Their country barely works at all.

That Germans are doing relatively well doesn't surprise me one bit.

@QuixoticSoul We will get there too - flat line like China - but we have a bigger ball to roll...

@Pavona What a dumbbell......[quote]100,000 deaths[/quote]

@Pavona Well the fool cant put a time when this will add up to - so the number is just bullshit from someone who is knows nothing about the outside world.

@Pavona well of course the deaths can reach 100K- but by when 40 years from now ? 2 days 100 days ?