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But I would think that their "preparedness" is also driven by the fact that they can more easily contain any outbreaks. Japan is both an island, as well as about 10-15% the size of the United States.
And culturally very, very different. They would comply with government and police orders. 99%+ of crimes are solved in Japan - compared to US where a fraction are.
Well I would think our borders(air and ground) will be closed a lot sooner now that we have been hit. And I would also hope that we have enough of PPE and ventilators too.
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Originally Posted by leadfoot4
But I would think that their "preparedness" is also driven by the fact that they can more easily contain any outbreaks. Japan is both an island, as well as about 10-15% the size of the United States.
Deaths and those diagnosed in NYS is getting less by less day by day. This week will be the peak, as well as next week, and deaths and diagnosed numbers will start to trickle back down.
But isn't Cuomo, who can't even handle ONE state, becoming the shining star of the Democrat Party, whom the Dems deem capable of defeating Trump, who is dealing with, not only one state like Cuomo, but 50 (FIFTY!) states, China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan, AND the liberal media, Hollywood, Pelosi, and Schumer---ALL AT THE SAME TIME!! Talk about being able to multi-task! MAGA Trump 2020
I also agree there were failures but not necessarily of outdated protocols as much as ignored protocols in that the NSC and CDC prepared manual for dealing with such a pandemic was largely ignored; bureaucratic bungling indeed. The lack of testing capability that continues today is totally unacceptable and unforgiveable.
If one can wade through the usual and silly WAPO Trump gotchas, WAPO hits the outdated test development protocols pretty hard - especially the SOP of CDC to develop their own (non-WHO) test and the protocols following the Public Health Emergency Declaration of 31 January.
Here is one just one excerpt:
“The declaration triggered emergency testing protocols, which increased restrictions on which labs could make a corona virus test. Any lab would be required to acquire an Emergency Use Authorization (EAU) from the FDA to perform testing for COVID-19.” The cascading ill effects of this protocol have to be read to be believed:
Given the world’s failure to firmly slam the door on China-related travel early (no doubt related to Chinese misinformation on the virus as well as other factors) and the fact that asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic carriers/spreaders aren’t necessarily candidates for testing even with a greater supply of tests, there is some question as to how much of the COVID-19 deaths we could have realistically avoided.
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FWIW, I received a "blast e-mail" from Elise Stefanik overnight, and it stated that she, and other "upstate" legislators, were able to block Cuomo's gestapo action of randomly seizing ventilators from upstate NY, to be shipped to NYC.....
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