re: Here’s some evidence that certain reporters want more testing so that things look worse

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As best I can tell, every country has business open, give or take a Cuba or N. Korea.

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London isn't even remotely open right now they are in what would be considered a phase 1 here in the US. Same for Italy and France...

That alone tells me you literally have no clue what truly is open on Europe.

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a heavy push toward voluntary universal masking. PSAs and encouragement to that end from all arm and orifices of power in society. - indeed we are a rich country, everyone in the US should have access to n95 mask by now - extensive contact tracing - re-opening based on a set of standards as opposed to political calculations

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Fauci and our scientific community along with the media early on said masks were useless... now there is a push for mask.

Every person in the US has easy access to n95 mask. Are you linking/suggesting that's not the case?

Are we not reopening based on a set of standards? Does each state in the end decide its own standards and decisions - regardless of the federal government? Who did provided phased out options...

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We banned travel from Europe because our NY outbreak was sourced largely from people traveling in from Europe. Eventually, pretty much everywhere banned travel from pretty much everywhere else. The EU now allows international travel again, just not from the US specifically because we are managing so much worse. Are you really of the belief that we're doing this well? Germany has about as many new cases per day as Iowa. Why can't that be us?

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The EU is incredibly butthurt at the current administration for a multitude of reasons.

We shut down our bars and restaurants at the same exact time as European countries did. We did fall behind on testing, equipment etc but we have absolutely learned and quickly adjusted on both those fronts to outpace the entire world.