No plan, no expertise, no shit. Trump ignored all the warning and experts. His administration gutted the agencies responsible for pandemic response plans and as the extent of the global crisis began to become clear, wasted precious weeks because Trump said everything would be OK. Now we have a disaster that is killing Americans and devastating not only our economy, but the very social fabric of our nation AND TRUMP HAS NO PLAN FOR GETTING LIFE BACK TO NORMAL.
“We need an army of contact tracers in every community in the U.S. to be ready to find every contact and warn them to care for themselves and stop spreading it to others,” he said.
Those resources do not current exist, said Konyndyk, who also noted that hospital capacity across the country needs to be expanded and protective equipment for health workers restocked. There are currently global shortages.
“If we want to be able to — as I think we need to — turn our economy back on in a safe way, we need to be able to do that sort of thing at scale,” Konyndyk said. “And we do not have anywhere close to the public health infrastructure that’s needed to pull that off.”
“That’s fundamental to getting us out of this lockdown phase. And the government’s not talking about it, much less acting on it,” he said.
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