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In that case, shouldn't there be a "manhattan project for making glass vials"?  This sort of thing speaks to the ongoing screwups by Trump et al.  They should have identified all of the bottlenecks involved in making a vaccine in January or February, gone to Congress for money to fix those things within a few weeks, and be breaking ground on new facilities or whatever by now.

Instead we got..."hoax", denial, hydroxycholorquine, nothing of use.

January? January? Let's see, I think Congress was tied up in January doing something.  What was it?  Oh yeah, I remember now: They were impeaching Trump.  But, hey, nevermind, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff would have been perfectly happy to call all that off so they could help Trump finance a massive program to make glass vials to treat something that even Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and WHO were saying at the time might not turn out to be all that serious.

Remember, Pelosi et al. were telling us over and over that Trump represented an existential threat to the United States; I don't recall her ever saying back then that COVID was an existential threat.

Get real...

Of course, there's also a theory that if Our Elected Leader hadn't tried to extort a foreign leader in order to gin up opposition research against his likely general election opponent, there would have been no reason to impeach him in the first place.

By the way, that travel ban from China? It was imposed on January 31, right at the end of impeachment. Seems Trump was very able to focus on the aspects of COVID-19 he thought were politically useful to him to act on.

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In that case, shouldn't there be a "manhattan project for making glass vials"?  This sort of thing speaks to the ongoing screwups by Trump et al.  They should have identified all of the bottlenecks involved in making a vaccine in January or February, gone to Congress for money to fix those things within a few weeks, and be breaking ground on new facilities or whatever by now.

Instead we got..."hoax", denial, hydroxycholorquine, nothing of use.

January? January? Let's see, I think Congress was tied up in January doing something.  What was it?  Oh yeah, I remember now: They were impeaching Trump.  But, hey, nevermind, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff would have been perfectly happy to call all that off so they could help Trump finance a massive program to make glass vials to treat something that even Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and WHO were saying at the time might not turn out to be all that serious.

Remember, Pelosi et al. were telling us over and over that Trump represented an existential threat to the United States; I don't recall her ever saying back then that COVID was an existential threat.

Get real...

Of course, there's also a theory that if Our Elected Leader hadn't tried to extort a foreign leader in order to gin up opposition research against his likely general election opponent, there would have been no reason to impeach him in the first place.

By the way, that travel ban from China? It was imposed on January 31, right at the end of impeachment. Seems Trump was very able to focus on the aspects of COVID-19 he thought were politically useful to him to act on.