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I know people will say it would be "politically impossible" to shut down the whole country at once.  To that I call absolute bullshit. If say Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ho would have been embraced to lead a federal response, we'd be out of this mess already. All you need to do is look at virtually every other country in the world to prove the point.

To be accurate, if you look at the EU you actually see countries that are lots better off than we are but who are also far from out of this mess. Nobody is going to be out of this mess for a while, and one misstep can lead to a surge of cases. Things are not "business as usual" there. I wish they were, as it has greatly affected my business.

I really don't understand why you constantly worry about the federal response as the main problem. Listen to what Dr. Fauci said during his talk with Stanford medicine. He pointed out that we had let our State and County Health services atrophy out of existence, and that that was the real problem. If he were "in charge" of the federal response, what he would have done is help reconstitute the County and State Health Departments. It would have been nice if the federal response had lead there, but it isn't like Newsom and the Counties didn't know what they needed to do, as did NY State and NYC etc. The have all apparently failed to do it, and it isn't because they lacked the money. If it were, we would have heard about it.

Why did this track and trace effort fail? I don't know for sure, but I THINK it is because neither the State or the County have the will to enforce any isolation or quarantine, or even cooperation with the track and trace program. Given that, they realized their track and trace efforts were doomed to fail and didn't much worry about them. I have been getting the run-around from San Mateo County Health for months. I still have no idea how effective they are in getting contacts and tracking them. The Board of Supervisors also doesn't know, or they are fibbing to me about it. That isn't a federal problem, but boy does this stink IMHO.

[Goose]

I know people will say it would be "politically impossible" to shut down the whole country at once.  To that I call absolute bullshit. If say Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ho would have been embraced to lead a federal response, we'd be out of this mess already. All you need to do is look at virtually every other country in the world to prove the point.

To be accurate, if you look at the EU you actually see countries that are lots better off than we are but who are also far from out of this mess. Nobody is going to be out of this mess for a while, and one misstep can lead to a surge of cases. Things are not "business as usual" there. I wish they were, as it has greatly affected my business.

I really don't understand why you constantly worry about the federal response as the main problem. Listen to what Dr. Fauci said during his talk with Stanford medicine. He pointed out that we had let our State and County Health services atrophy out of existence, and that that was the real problem. If he were "in charge" of the federal response, what he would have done is help reconstitute the County and State Health Departments. It would have been nice if the federal response had lead there, but it isn't like Newsom and the Counties didn't know what they needed to do, as did NY State and NYC etc. The have all apparently failed to do it, and it isn't because they lacked the money. If it were, we would have heard about it.

Why did this track and trace effort fail? I don't know for sure, but I THINK it is because neither the State or the County have the will to enforce any isolation or quarantine, or even cooperation with the track and trace program. Given that, they realized their track and trace efforts were doomed to fail and didn't much worry about them. I have been getting the run-around from San Mateo County Health for months. I still have no idea how effective they are in getting contacts and tracking them. The Board of Supervisors also doesn't know, or they are fibbing to me about it. That isn't a federal problem, but boy does this stink IMHO.