re: Tim kaine is on the senate floor RIGHT NOW telling us to stop bashing China

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But we could've ramped up production of testing in those areas like the Koreans did.

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well the CDC failed us there

and yes, as i've posted before. you can blame Trump in an Extreme Ownership way, but the proper response is to fix the error and he's tried to do that

testing is still unrealistic because we would literally need 2-3x the population in total tests. at first, this would have been in the tens of millions. that's impossible to produce

and SK isn't the US. they seem to be the outlier (yesterday somebody posted that even Singapore is experiencing a return of their spike after laxing social distancing policies) and that's cultural and geographical.

if we had an island (effectively) the size of Missouri, we could have responded much more quickly and decisively. .if we had a culture like they do, people would have listened.