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Coronavirus cases          643,508

Coronavirus deaths          28,506

Coronavirus recoveries    48,679

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Dopey Republicans said...Credible scientists said...

This is an argument that scientists and the healthcare community cannot afford to lose...

Here we have one of those stupid arguments that have become commonplace since Donald Trump settled in the White House. The plausible and rational side and the Trump side. leaving the American public in the middle to suffer, some die, from a virus the Oval Office lunatic should have been on the top of from the beginning (having been advised of the potential pandemic on January 18) but clearly has not been. Two months of doing nothing.

Republicans are telling T-rump it should have happened yesterday, referring to the opening of the economy. Credible scientists have shown in a study that, "Social distancing measures may be necessary until 2022 to contain coronavirus pandemic." Okay, there is a middle ground here somewhere and I'll bet the scientific community is more willing to negotiate than are Trump and his minions. Here are the findings...

"In the study, published in the journal Science Tuesday, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers projected that several smaller outbreaks of COVID-19 could follow the more severe pandemic.

"They determined that prolonged periods of social distancing may be necessary in order to control transmission and prevent health care facilities from becoming overwhelmed."

Good illustration of COVID-19 SPREAD...

Obviously it will require a widespread educational program that Donald Trump is no doubt incapable of handling but could be implemented by those in healthcare who know what they are doing. Dr. Anthony Fauci would not be the right leader as long as he is under the thumb of T-rump. Scientists should form their own group like the Democratic governors have done to do their own thing, refusing to let Donald Trump interfere.

This is the case from the right, which you have to understand has no concern for the average American's health but is thinking only of starting up a lagging economy for just one reason, to win the November election...

"President Donald Trump is itching to reopen the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic. And congressional Republicans are mostly giving him the green light — and in some cases, leaning on him to speed up.

"As Trump alternately agonizes over when to push states to reopen and browbeats governors with questionable claims of his superior authority, GOP lawmakers are urging federal guidance that quickly restarts some industries and begins to roll back unprecedented closures of vast swaths of the United States."

There are 24 states with Democratic governors and considering the recent "mutiny," as Trump described it, they plan to do the right thing with their states no matter what the White House maniac says. Naturally, the good guys, and gals, are rooting for the scientists and the governors.

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HEADLINE: "Trump melts down and the media fails the public. Again." Washington Post conservative columnist turned Donald Trump critic marvels at how her media peers seem to ignore T-rump's disintegrating before the public.

HEADLINE: "23 Reasons Why Millennials Are A Complete And Total Disgrace To The Entire World." Add another: Looks like the young people deserted Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary.

HEADLINE: "The worst president. Ever." Remember when George W. Bush was considered this country's worst president, probably always would be? No one could have predicted how bad a president Donald Trump would be, nor did most Americans think the depths of Trump's actions could ever be as bad as they are.

HEADLINE: "Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship." Whoever thought the latest Supreme Court was non-partisan. Only those with their heads in the sand.

HEADLINE: "McGrath outraises McConnell in first quarter." I cannot believe the state of Kentucky would elect the scumbag Moscow2 Mitch in the first place. Maybe this is an attempt to rectify their mistake. Hopefully!

HEADLINE: "Trump is working behind the scenes to cripple any investigations before the November election: columnist." The truth shall set the American public free of the dirges of Donald Trump...no later than November.

HEADLINE: "American Democracy May Be Dying." Another reference to the Wisconsin recent election: "Wisconsin Republican leaders gave citizens a choice on Tuesday: give up their vote or go to the polls and risk their and their neighbors’ health." Wisconsin is a GOP cesspool.

HEADLINE: "Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself." Having worked with AI in the past, creating computer predictive models, I can understand how this technology could very well become self-sustaining.

HEADLINE: "For Republicans, there is no more reliable source of accurate information than Trump: study." "President Trump has made 16,241 false or misleading claims during his three years in office, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker."

HEADLINE: "How little Trump cares for workers — and how much he values corporate swamp monsters — is now on full display." It is purely pathetic how the Oval Office lunatic has snowed his supporters into believing he cares diddly squat for them. He doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself.

HEADLINE: "Conservative explains why ‘Biden is Trump’s worst nightmare.’" Now that Bernie Sanders is out of the race, and has endorsed Joe Biden, the nightmare just widened.

HEADLINE: "Here are 7 brutal comments from experts about Donald Trump’s mental stability." Other than being a "Very Stable Genius," Donald Trump is completely bananas. Google yields 711,000 results.

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Latest coronavirus report - WORLDOMETER

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Coronavirus cases          610,632

Coronavirus deaths          25,856

Coronavirus recoveries    36,205

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Healthcare workers infected cannot get COVID-19 testing

This is why CNN and MSNBC labeled Trump's coronavirus briefings propaganda...

New York city healthcare workers protesting

In T-rump's Monday briefing, he said figures of infected healthcare workers would be made available. They have not been because "that total currently remains impossible to pin down." BuzzFeedNews also tells us...

"That’s both because health care workers are still struggling to access testing for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, if not being actively discouraged to do so, and because infections are being inconsistently tracked and in some cases uncounted at the state level."

And it gets much worse...

"At least 5,400 nurses, doctors, and other health care workers responding to the coronavirus outbreak in the United States have been infected by the disease, and dozens have died, according to a BuzzFeed News review of data reported by every state and Washington, DC. However, the true number is undoubtedly much higher, due to inconsistent testing and tracking."

MSNBC cuts off Trump COVID-19 briefing for airing Trump propaganda only... 

And here's a Florida worker's experience...

"After my shift, I was told we no longer can use two plastic gowns (1 for front and 1 for back), now the back one is replaced with a trash bag," a staffer in a Florida intensive care unit, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, told BuzzFeed News. 'This is getting ridiculous.'"

The entire dilemma can be attributed to Donald Trump's late start in seriously addressing COVID-19, and the his and his staff's incompetence in handling the operation since. Trump was notified of the potential severity of the coronavirus and the potential of a pandemic on January 18, by Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services. First, the Oval Office lunatic considered it a hoax, then for a period of time he blamed it on Democrats. This lasted into March.

BuzzFeedNews has documented activity on healthcare workers in all states and you can find yours here. But, as an example, the first state up, Alabama...

"So far, 393 health care workers have tested positive for COVID-19, or nearly 15% of confirmed cases in the state."

According to The Commonwealth Fund the United States ranks last in the protection of its healthcare workers compared with six other industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This is based on measures of quality, efficiency, access to care, equity, and the ability to lead long, healthy, and productive lives, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. A pathetic position for our country to be in. 

Who wins the battle opening country? Govs or Trump

There are twenty-four Democratic governors in the U.S. I would place my trust in far more than depending on Donald Trump to act in opening this country from the coronavirus shutdown...

Democrats like Washington's Jay Inslee of Washington, Andrew Cuomo of New York. Then you have those deadbeat Republican governors like Arizona's Doug Ducey and Florida's Ron DeSantis, who grovel in Trump's demands that determine every move they make. The entire right is scared to death of the Oval Office lunatic, therefore, no confidence can be placed in their decisions. But the Democrats, while screwed up in Congress, seem competent at the state level.

Here's the Washington Post's evaluation of how a Republican government is handling the dilemma...

“It’s mind-boggling, actually, the degree of disorganization,” said Tom Frieden, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director. The federal government has already squandered February and March, he noted, committing “epic failures” on testing kits, ventilator supply, protective equipment for health workers and contradictory public health communication. The next failure is already on its way, Frieden said, because “we’re not doing the things we need to be doing in April.”

Watch Trump wiggle and squirm for the truth that eludes him...

Meanwhile, the White House maniac, feeling deprived of his tyrannical powers, has begun to spew a new litany of rules that could only be contrived in a mentally handicapped mind like his...

"President Donald Trump insisted Monday that he alone could declare the United States reopen for business, continuing a contradictory line of messaging toward the nation’s governors as they have taken on greater responsibilities to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the face of federal inaction."

“For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States & the Federal Government. Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Governors to reopen economy

And there was more...

“It is the decision of the President, and for many good reasons. With that being said, the Administration and I are working closely with the Governors, and this will continue,” he added in another tweet, previewing that a “decision by me, in conjunction with the Governors and input from others, will be made shortly!”

He and his administration aren't doing crap, and this is obvious from where we stand today as the country with the highest number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the entire world. Donald Trump was told of the threat of the disease by Health Secretary Alex Azar on January 18, of this year. He was dismissed by the top idiot as an alarmist. And this is why our country is in such a chaotic condition because Trump won't listen to anyone.

But he will announce "his second coronavirus task force" after the first obviously didn't work. In the meantime, legal scholars, the experts this dufus won't listen to, say "the federal government lacks the power to directly order states to reopen their economies." The Democratic governors most likely have had this advice from their legal team, thus, will act as a group and get the job done while the moron muddles in the disorder of his anarchy.

Former president Barack Obama warned of pandemic back in 2014...

Here's our former president's take...

On Wednesday, former president Barack Obama weighed in, tweeting, “Social distancing bends the curve and relieves some pressure … But in order to shift off current policies, the key will be a robust system of testing and monitoring — something we have yet to put in place nationwide.”

This is one of those 'can you believe it' questions; having known the pandemic was coming since January 18, we still don't have adequate testing for coronavirus in the most technologically advanced country in the world. Almost three months have passed by the end of March only 320,000 tests were done and in comparison to So. Korea, something Trump regularly refers to, the U.S. has...

"conducted far fewer tests per capita given the US population is more than six times larger than South Korea's."

The question is what's going on in the Trump administration?...

"A Nature.com investigation of several university labs certified to test for the virus finds that they have been held up by regulatory, logistic and administrative obstacles, and stymied by the fragmented US health-care system."

Anywhere you go looking for reasons or ant logic to why the COVID-19 situation is so screwed up in the United States, the arrow always points to Donald Trump in the White House and his also incompetent minions who continue to adore this blockhead. Pathetic!

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Coronavirus cases          584,862

Coronavirus deaths          23,555

Coronavirus recoveries    36,205

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Could "wildly inaccurate tests" be outcome of ant-body experiment?

The FDA says anti-body tests could be inaccurate if not watched carefully...

Digital generated image of macro view of the corona virus. (Getty Images)

Calling it the “Wild West” of unregulated tests, yet still...

"Because of the relative simplicity of the technology, the Food and Drug Administration decided to waive initial review of the tests as part of its emergency response to the coronavirus outbreak."

Shouldn't there be some kind of oversight when we are talking about a disease that has already killed almost 22,000 Americans? Or are we again dealing with one of those situations where Donald Trump wants things to go unchecked so he can involve his donors and himself in some kind of corrupt money-making machine scheme? It has Trump exploitation written all over it. Here's the scenario...

"Right now, the tests are most useful for researchers studying how the virus has spread through the U.S. population. The government said Friday it has started testing 10,000 volunteers. The White House has not outlined a broader plan for testing and how the results might be used.

"With almost no FDA oversight of the tests, “It really has created a mess that’s going to take a while to clean up,” said Eric Blank of the Association for Public Health Laboratories. “In the meantime, you’ve got a lot of companies marketing a lot of stuff and nobody has any idea of how good it is.”

Good explanation of anti-body tests...

Blank’s group represents state and local lab officials from around the country who want more hands-on by the FDA instead of just requiring the company to "state that their tests have not been FDA-approved and cannot rule out whether someone is currently infected." The FDA responded...

"Last week, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said in a statement that the agency will “take appropriate action” against companies making false claims or selling inaccurate tests."

Sure, and that's like the old saying of 'closing the barn door after the cows are already out.' It's too late if someone has a false negative and dangerous for the individual. Here's confirmation of that...

"Dr. Allison Rakeman of New York City’s Public Health Laboratory says some local hospitals are assuming the tests, which are listed on FDA’s website, 'have been vetted, when they have not.'

"The danger of faulty testing, Rakeman says, is that people will mistakenly conclude that they are immune or are no longer spreading the virus."

Once again the Trump administration has created a mess, and once again it is the American public who suffers.

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Sean Hannity gets top award-Source of most coronavirus misinformation

We knew we were getting bullshit from Fox News and now this Media Matters study proves it...

Sean Hannity

HEADLINE: "Media Watchdog Names Sean Hannity as a Chief Source of Coronavirus Misinformation." The watchdog calls Hannity a, "top Trump Administration propagandist — Sean Hannity has made a career of twisting facts and peddling conspiracy theories." Yes, this is the business of Fox News and here it is explained...

"Now, a new report from the nonprofit watchdog group Media Matters for America labels Hannity one of the chief sources of dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. The analysis documents some 50 specific examples in which the commentator misrepresented facts about the outbreak to benefit his far-right agenda."

Here's an example...

"On March 9, for example, Hannity opined that young, healthy Americans have no reason to fear coronavirus. Two days later, on his radio program, the commentator dished up a conspiracy theory about the “deep state” using coronavirus to spin the public."

A despicable person and a contemptible news organization that has done more harm in this country than is imaginable. Its worst...supporting and promoting Donald Trump.   READ MORE...

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Take note if you live in Los Angeles, new York, or any other high-pollution city: HEADLINE: "New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates."   READ MORE...

Poor baby. It couldn't happen to a better asshole: HEADLINE: "Donald Trump 'lost $1bn in a month' from coronavirus lockdown."   READ MORE...

Put a fence around these people and let them fend for themselves: HEADLINE: "Ammon Bundy and other far-right extremists in Idaho vow to defy GOP governor’s social distancing order: report."   READ MORE...

As Donald Trump continues to push hydroxychloroquine, whose manufacturer he has an investment in, there are alarms out: HEADLINE: "Mayo Clinic cardiologist: 'Inexcusable' to ignore hydroxychloroquine side effects."   READ MORE...

Hard to believe but the COVID-19 virus is racist: HEADLINE: "'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19." 
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There is no end to what Donald Trump will do as a corrupt individual, even sitting in the oval office, to line Donald Trump's pockets: HEADLINE "Trump is using the pandemic as cover for his latest crime spree." You gotta read this...

"Donald Trump is on a search-and-destroy mission to remove anyone who might get in the way of him committing more crimes or using the federal government as a personal piggybank for himself and his friends. And he’s using the coronavirus pandemic as a cover..."

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Young people think they are immortal when it comes to the coronavirus, prompted partially due to media that emphasizes age when talking of the seriousness of COVID-19. We have one of those in the family whose comment was, "Oh, it's only a virus." Beyond pathetic: HEADLINE: "Hundreds of young Americans have now been killed by the coronavirus, data shows." 
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The experts have reversed on the earlier announcement that coronavirus will go away with Summer and the heat. HEADLINE: "Summer Heat May Not Diminish Coronavirus Strength."   READ MORE...

A man with untested COVID-19 yet but with mild resperatory symptoms kills 3 family members. HEADLINE: "A Man With The Coronavirus Hugged People At A Funeral And A Birthday Party. Three Of Them Died."   READ MORE...

This pretty much blows all of the versions of hydroxychloroquine success. One view, "The study was a complete failure." HEADLINE: "Publisher of hydroxychloroquine study touted by Trump says the research didn't meet its standards."   READ MORE...

This is about as scary as it gets if you have coronavirus and can't breathe. HEADLINE: "80% of NYC's coronavirus patients who are put on ventilators ultimately die, and some doctors are trying to stop using them." 

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This ghastly video portrays why distancing is so important and life-saving. HEADLINE: "VIRUS PERIL Terrifying video shows how a single cough can spread a cloud of coronavirus across supermarket that lingers for minutes." READ MORE...

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Coronavirus latest by WORLDOMETER

Latest  on U.S.  COVID-19: WORLDOMETER...

Coronavirus cases          558,447

Coronavirus deaths          21,991

Coronavirus recoveries    31,986

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NRA goes down the tube...Good riddance!!!

Here's the headline: "The NRA Is Dying – And the Timing Couldn’t Be More Ironic...

The irony is the fact that gun sales are surging because the gun nuts, with their limited mentality, think the coronavirus pandemic will affect their gun ownership. Politifact says: "There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people." There are 120.5 guns in this country per 100 persons. It's time to put the NRA out of business and stop gun violence!
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What are coronavirus anti-body tests?

Not a way to initially detect the virus, but a way to determine if you were asymptomatic--had it but didn't know it--therefore, now immune to the disease...

Anti-body test - A simple prick in the finger

Don't start striking up the band, nor don't panic over what you hear or read about anti-bodies; it is really very simple. Some people did not have any symptoms, but in fact did have a mild case of coronavirus they did not recognize at the time. Anti-bodies were created to give them an immunity to the disease. That's it. The CDC reports test results could be ready in a week, saying this group can go back to work if they are found non-infectious. Here's a sidebar...

"As officials begin discussing what it would take for the US to reopen, there could be "merit" to the idea of Americans carrying certificates of immunity that prove they have tested positive for coronavirus antibodies, Fauci said."

This is not a test to determine of you currently have COVID-19, something not yet available, but rather to find out if you have established an immunity. The New York Times reports...

"From 25 to 50 percent of people who become infected may never develop symptoms, and some may become only mildly ill. Others may have known they were sick, but could not get tested."

Dr. Fauci explains anti-body testing...

This could be a boon to putting healthcare workers back to work since they are no longer contagious and cannot themselves be reinfected. Here's the scenario...

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that it would begin using antibody tests to see what proportion of the population has already been infected. On Friday [Apr. 10], the National Institutes of Health announced it would test 10,000 healthy volunteers around the country for the presence of antibodies.

It is unknown at this point how much Dr. Anthony Fauci had to fight Donald Trump to get this done.

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WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Results

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Coronavirus cases          530,384

Coronavirus deaths          20,513

Coronavirus recoveries    29,444

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AG Wm. Barr does the unbelievable

This time we have Atty. General Wm. Barr to thank for Trump administration stupidity...

Here's the headline: "AG Barr denounces stay-at-home orders as ‘draconian’ — suggests Trump should reconsider social distancing guidelines at end of the month." This cloned aide has worked himself so far up Trump's rear end that he qualifies for a lower endoscopy. After almost everyone on board--except for those with double-digit IQs--this idiot appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” this week, he described them as “draconian” and implied that they were going too far."

He's on the right show for idiots and that is basically what the Fox News audience is composed of. And then he tries to play attorney general saying...

AG Barr

Barr told “Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham that officials should be “very careful to make sure that the draconian measures that are being adopted are fully justified.”

AlterNet added this...

"Unlike France or Italy, the U.S. does not have a nationwide stay-at-home order. Social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders — some stricter than others — have been carried out at the state level or the local level in the U.S."

France is having noticeable results and Italy seems to be over its peak in the pandemic, but at least they are doing something concrete about the dilemma and not spending their time bragging about what they supposedly have done. Now here is a statement to the clueless Ingraham that should have closed down the show...

"The U.S. attorney general defended Trump vigorously during the interview, telling Ingraham — herself a strident defender of the president — that Trump has been unfairly attacked with 'snarky, gotcha questions from the White House media pool.' And he defended Trump’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine (which has been used to treat malaria) as a possible COVID-19 treatment."

But, then, this is the kind of crap Fox News thrives on.

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Coronavirus cases          500,879

Coronavirus deaths          18,637

Coronavirus recoveries    27,239

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Donald Trump coronavirus testing still lags behind

Yes, we finally passed South Korea in total testing but not per-capita...

Donald Trump refuses responsibility for lousy COVID-19 testing...

Donald Trump's failure to attack the COVID-19 problem early is the nucleus of all the current problems we are experiencing with the pandemic. It was obvious from the beginning that the virus would be a serious threat to this country from what had happened in China. Any fool would know to move quickly but not T-rump. He initially claimed it was a hoax, something dreamed up by Democrats to defeat him on November. Now, there may not be a November. A big factor was testing.

As of March 25, according to CNN...

"New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics had about 160,000 coronavirus test orders waiting to be processed on March 25, which amounted to about half of the 320,000 total orders for the tests the company had received up to that date."

But, wait, the Oval Office lunatic says we have tested 2 million in the U.S., elated that we finally passed South Korea in testing. But, hold on again...

"compared to South Korea, the US has conducted far fewer tests per capita given the US population is more than six times larger than South Korea's."

Once more Donald Trump doesn't outright lie but makes the inference that he has done a great job in testing, when, in fact, testing in this country is still miserably behind where it should be.   READ MORE...

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Gov. Jay Inslee says Trump needs a quartermaster

Donald Trump fails miserably as U.S. quartermaster for coronavirus supplies...

Looks capable but completely inept

Washington state governor Jay Inslee has done a remarkable job of saving his state, which had been labeled as the epicenter for the COVID-19, what at that time was only an epidemic. Washington has a total of 9,342 cases, 431 deaths (59 per 1,000), but no new cases and no new deaths. It would seem that if Inslee were leading the country and not Donald Trump, the virus situation would be much better. T-rump's actions even sound downright criminal.

With coronavirus deaths approaching 15,000, medical supplies are depleting at a faster rate than they can be depleted. As the New York Times put it, it is a “signature failure,” which can only be attributed to one Donald Trump for his handling of the U.S. pandemic. Governor Inslee explains...

"how President Trump’s lack of “urgency” is directly contributing to equipment shortages hobbling response efforts — and hinted at an alarming scenario ahead."

Gov. Inslee talks about Washington's COVID-19 results... 

First, the Oval Office lunatic calls it a hoax, then he blames the whole thing on Democrats before finally facing up to what was really going on. But he still doesn't get it, and is totally responsible for the current shortcomings for COVID-19. Inslee pleads for a stronger voice from the White House, but we all know there is none, only Trump's incompetence. The difficulties in procuring equipment is "inexplicable and infuriating," he says, and added,,,

"As dogged reporting has shown, the federal government’s handling of medical supply chains has left states and health-care providers scrambling in a state of confusion and without badly needed supplies."

Once again, it can all be traced back to the fact that Trump failed, "to fully deploy the Defense Production Act to marshal private sector resources." This is still a problem for Washington state, and they got an early start on the problem, simply due to White House incompetence. Here's one example, Inslee's state has one simple problem, unused testing capacity because it lacks one thing: the swabs needed to take samples. The governor complained...

“It seems ridiculous that the United States can’t produce enough swabs to solve this problem. I have 50 or 60 long-term care facilities that have infections in them that we literally have not been able to do the testing we want of remaining residents and staff.”

Adam Schiff criticizes Trump saying, "incompetence kills..."

They finally procured the swabs on their own, but now he's concerned about vials. It all boils down to, “an inadequate supply chain” that’s “grossly inadequate to the demand.” And that is...

directly traceable to “at least a month” of lost time, because “the president was downplaying this problem and had not engaged the full force of the federal government.”

And, apparently some of the problem hinges on the fact that small businesses that manufacture the needed products need help in financing the overtime due to the overall economic situation. Inslee wonders why the federal government hasn't been more active in identifying these industries who make the necessary products and make sure they get the help. He calls it a "schizophrenic approach adopted by the federal government." The term explained...

Trump initially told states they were mostly on their own, which led to a bidding war among states seeking supplies from a range of manufacturers and suppliers. Now the feds have sought to exert control over distribution, but it appears piecemeal and partial.

Inslee, again, places blame on not initiating the Defense Production Act earlier and a failure by Trump in the coordination of availability of parts. And here's a point that cannot be ignored, even when things get better with new cases and deaths on the decline, testing will be at least as important then, if not more so than now. We have to "mobilize" as does the military for war, and that is where he indicated we need a quartermaster, not a Trump, in control.   READ MORE...

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