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

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Blaming this on culture is ridiculous

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bruh.

ok let me ak this:

do you agree that if a population is more likely to engage in submission to authority and putting the state over the individual, then that society is much more likely to follow quarantine and self-isolation protocols than a population who is less likely to do those things?

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The science was messy,

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is. there are no good populations studied or peer reviews going on

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because the White House was actively slow-rolling this response

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how so?

like banning travel from China?
staying out of the way of the CDC so it could its job? Following its recommendations to make its own test?

again, short of martial law, what could the federal government do?

nationalizing industries to preemptively manufacture vents? declare a state of emergency before states could handle their responsibilities?

this is primarily a state issue. there is only so much the feds can do. one thing they can do is restrict travel, which he did (and was criticized for it). another thing they can do is let the CDC work, which they did (and the CDC failed horribly initially)