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Here's a thread documenting the epic incompetence of the Trump administration + the GOP in dealing with the pandemic. Some Democratic politicos deserve severe critiques also (Cuomo and DeBlasio being the poster children there) but a national problem requires a national response.

 Remember, that for pandemics as well as for climate change, "Speed trumps perfection". Stop obsessing about "optimality". There is nothing optimal about responding to a pandemic or to climate change, just move as fast as you can. https://t.co/Lijz3HkUYj
Hey look, the GOP (not Trump) hamstrung the Obama Administration's effort to build up strategic reserves to fight pandemics going as far back as 2011: https://t.co/zwEqA8ApNI
Hey look, there was a pandemic response plan developed by national security officials in 2016, which Trump and the GOP ignored: https://t.co/eLZfUBFmY2
Hey look, Trump and the GOP disbanded the pandemic response unit in 2018: https://t.co/9MjxmANFaI
Hey look, @AtomicAnalyst called it on May 10, 2018: https://t.co/RPp9TcSP8p
Hey look, there was a ten-year old US pandemic early-response team ON THE GROUND IN CHINA. Trump fired them all two months before the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China. https://t.co/nQgkbasLMF
Hey look, Trump and the GOP waited 8 weeks after the first confirmed case to do anything, squandering precious time: https://t.co/ZFD2bt5ixI
Hey look, in January 2020, a US manufacturer said they could produce millions of N95 masks, they just needed a guaranteed order so they could get their factory going. The Trump Administration inexplicably refused. https://t.co/imOn54TALs
Hey look, the Trump administration inexplicably nixed a plan to send out lots of masks for free to every US household. This would have saved tens of thousands of lives for sure. https://t.co/1BJAqrw1bx
Hey look, the Trump administration repeatedly blocked efforts to require masks on airplanes, airports, and other transit modes. https://t.co/uNc8ohy2N2
Hey look, the US is #43 in the world in gene sequencing the virus. What? https://t.co/W0SDfABRYP
Hey look, here's a GOP governor criticizing Trump for failing to ramp up coronavirus testing: https://t.co/ovwrpcfJtp
Hey look, from Day 1 the Trump administration hollowed out HHS, thereby sabotaging future pandemic response. https://t.co/htWM5UF5D1
Hey look, here's a Republican who did the right thing. @Schwarzenegger set up a supply reserve for pandemic supplies, which was stopped by Democrat Jerry Brown (bad move, Jerry). https://t.co/l7qsEXApx3
But of course, @Schwarzenegger is a different kind of Republican, of which there are very few, nowadays. https://t.co/LqczHPP8ix
Mike DeWine of Ohio started strong, but things have gone awry more recently, as they have in much of the country in the absence of a competent national response. https://t.co/itMTdkiEqp
Hey look, in October 2020, documentation of 130,000 to 210,000 avoidable US deaths from COVID 19. https://t.co/Gru9yDOOeV
Now we're up to more than half a million deaths in the US from COVID-19, most of them avoidable. https://t.co/fTfzC6waCA
Please, please, please, don't "both sides" this. There have been notable failures by Democrats (Cuomo, DeBlasio, Jerry Brown) but the responsibility for the national failures is 100% with Trump and the GOP. https://t.co/1T6bjXzSHB
An article in The BMJ (a journal owned by the British Medical Association) sums it up here: https://t.co/kXaapd0o6G
Summary: The responsibility for the disastrous US national response to coronavirus is 100% with Trump and the GOP./fin
Addendum: Trump and the GOP even messed up the vaccine rollout! https://t.co/PplFeAR3sU

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