Trump Continues to Deny Responsibility for Nationwide Testing

Now that Trump has been embarrassingly forced into complete capitulation over his claim to be able to force state governors into re-opening the economy, it's time to start looking at when and how we will be able to transition back to a fully functioning country. 

In the past two days, Trump has re-tweeted a call to #FireFauci for daring to tell the truth about the ineffectiveness of Trump’s actions when confronting the pandemic, and Fauci has now been forced to speak truth yet again in regards to our readiness to return to normal operations.  In an interview, Fauci has gone against everything Trump has been saying for weeks: America isn’t ready to reopen, and never will be unless there is improved testing.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Fauci explained that the United States has to have a system that identifies the real breadth of infection, allows case tracing to find those potentially exposed, and which can respond quickly to signs that the epidemic is accelerating. “We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on,” said Fauci, “and we’re not there yet.”

Trump keeps bragging about shutting down travel from China, hyping his paltry efforts in obtaining ventilators and shifting blame to China and the WHO-- but nobody cares about any of that anymore.  It's all a load of crap, meant to gloss over the fact that his administration has done NOTHING to ramp up nationwide testing.  People who think they are sick still are not able to get tested-- this week, we saw a story where a California cop died after being denied a test two times.  And we continue to be months and months away from widely-available antibody testing (which most experts believe will be necessary to get back to normal).

As experts have said from the beginning—and experience in other nations has made clear—before the general population can begin to return to anything close to normal operations, it’s necessary to identify those who may be infected and isolate them until they’ve recovered. A few days of reduced cases and deaths is far from enough to signal that everything is good to go, especially when the current testing regime is far from adequate.