COVID-19: You can go your own way ... and suffer the consequences of your arrogance
Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 1:03PM Seems pretty obvious that, to do well, you craft and execute an aggressive national testing strategy replete with large-scale tracking corps.
The United States has done neither, with the Federal Government taking a pass and declaring it all up to the presently overwhelmed (in many instances) states.
So we are losing the COVID-19 "competition," as this chart makes clear.
There is no good reason for this failure, and it seems poised to ruin any large-scale re-opening of the economy, which is very sad for all involved.
Our national economy is experiencing an extinction-level-event in terms of households, jobs, skills, business models, and even entire industries. The "mammals" will get by, but loads of "dinosaurs" will disappear.
It did not have to be this way. We needed a strong and competent federal government for this crisis, and we did not get one.
