Their is anecdotal evidence to suggest that our rate didn't accelerate like Italy's did.

100K cases by Friday means that the thing was massively overblown.

32,356 +8,149

Site might have been hacked or something. New figures, not 14k today in USA.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I think it's probably too early to draw very strong conclusions but the data wookie just linked doesn't suggest that at all.

Didn't both countries get their 1st confirmed case on same day?

Probably low, unless we just give up on trying to test more people.

Delaying the start of exponential growth by a day or a week or even a month is completely meaningless if you do nothing else. If you think the "travel ban" that doesn't absolutely cutoff commerce is going to stop the virus from ever getting here, lol.

Post that evidence

Italy had community spread about 10 days earlier than us.

Trump bought us time that he didn't use effectively I understand that.

What do you need in order to have a confirmed case of covid-19?

formula72: Uhm.... (10 hours later).... A test?

Yes! Good job! High five man you got it! Well almost. What you need is a working...

formula72: Uhhh Uhhh Uhhh, (24 days later).... A working test?

YES! BINGO! You need a working test that doesn't give false negatives more than half the time. It's also nice to have enough to test people who have symptoms, as well as, test nurses and doctors who might have it. We haven't been able to do that until just now. And to match South Korea's testing strategy, we have to be testing anyone who wants a test, even if they aren't showing symptoms.

formula72: Uhh I don't get it...

He didn't use it at all. And to this day he still hasn't mandated increased production of vital PPE and ventilators via the DPA, and states are currently bidding against each other for the meager supplies we have.

That one baffles me that states are bidding against each other. The FEMA guy was on the news this morning and not stepping in to stop this.

Why wouldn't the federal government do all the purchasing and distribute?

https://apnews.com/6d9382c1e8ee36f9ed1a4dfe7815ceb1

Are you making this post to underscore that being a lot?

Trump, 7 weeks ago: "We pretty much shut it down coming in from China. We're going to be fine."

Sorry Joe, but this is fake news. I have it on good authority that the only country that makes these begins with a C.

What's a mandate going to do? MrWookie's post is an example of finding a reason to be critical, the criticism about the DPA is 100% political BS. Seriously, what's the mandate going to do?

He does not care about any of this, just par for the course....

Because the guy that can make this happen is grossly incompetent.

Ventilator production is only one part of that post.

Rand Paul got the virus and probably spread it to a bunch of other GOP senators.

I edited my post to indicate that....Trump is bad all his own without you regurgitating political spin, but we all know you could care less about the truth and legitimacy.

This may not be the dumbest take possible but its probably the "wrongest"

The virus originated in china. It is not transmitted or spread through bird migration, wind, or some ****. It's also not crossing the ocean by rail, whale or even ship in large numbers. Cruise ships in small numbers which are easy to detect, track, and contain if you're trying

People are modeling the effects of exponential growth. Its not rocket surgery. Imagine moving the effectiveness of self isolation one step further and eliminating a significant portion of seeds. We could make a list of things from temperature/season, observing china, canada, and europe, drugs/treatment, vaccines, equipment/ventalators etc that all benefit greatly from more time

Minimizing or dismissing the restriction of air travel from china and to a lesser extent europe is so wrong I'm temped to quote makrssman but I suspect I am subject to my own set of rules

You didn't address PPE at all, you didn't address that even with the companies talking about ramping up production, we may still not hit our needs in time which could be improved via DPA work, and you didn't address that with DPA authorization, we could have the federal government buying these things and distributing them as the single payer, rather than having a bidding war between states. You pounced on a single nit you thought you could pick in your eternal rage against the liberals, and even there you fell flat on your face.

This gif completely wrecks your whole argument and you are too stupid to realize it.

Do you not understand capacity to produce is the issue, not the lack of desire to make a buck. An activated DPA will have no impact on the number of ventilators available.