Good morning. We& #39;re now into the 8th month of the #COVID19 pandemic. In the United States, we& #39;ve learned that plans for scale-up of testing were abandoned after being far along in the planning stages. 1/ #intcid=recommendations_vf-trending-legacy_caf2a6d7-20e9-4632-9889-3fd0a42b15c4_popular4-1">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air #intcid=recommendations_vf-trending-legacy_caf2a6d7-20e9-4632-9889-3fd0a42b15c4_popular4-1">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...
Meanwhile @HHS_ASH w/ track record of overpromising & underdelivering, who is in charge of US testing effort, still has a job. Decides to blame all of us for his incompetence. under guise of personal responsibility. We& #39;re just not trying hard enough. 2/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/31/brett-giroir-trump-coronavirus-testing-tsar">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
It& #39;s bizarre, everyone is thinking of a way out except the obvious one, we need to RESET, shut down in a way that provides support for ordinary Americans & get our testing, tracing and isolation resources in order. Why is Europe in better shape than us? 7/ https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1289201051187523592">https://twitter.com/nowthisne...
Everyone wants a different answer, a short-cut to the way out. It& #39;s not just @realDonaldTrump & @GOP, everyone I know is focused on when things go back to normal, thinking of it as a passive thing that will just "happen." 8/
We sadly are a basket case of a nation. @realDonaldTrump is barking mad (yes, can we just say this, please, out loud), malevolent (he doesn& #39;t really care what happens, can we say this out loud too?) and @GOP is all-in with the woo-woo from @WhiteHouse. 11/
So, just dig in. More deaths--we& #39;ll top 200,000, at the very least by end of year. More infections. More chaos in our lives as we move indoors in the winter and open up more and more, despite the epidemiological facts on the ground. 12/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/health/coronavirus-future-america.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/2...
It didn& #39;t have to be this way. It still doesn& #39;t. But we have no political will. No desire to change things. We& #39;re putting all our chips on the election, but there will be many more dead bodies before a new President is in office and things can change from the top-down. 13/
At this point, if #COVID19 doesn& #39;t destroy us, the next thing will. We have no appetite for a future, only resignation to this present. end/
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