I don't expect perfection, just the basic ability to pay attention and guide a bureaucracy. The ability to multi task is assumed.
A bizarre aspect of Trump* loyalists seems to be their ability to exist in a world made fresh each day with no collective memory. It’s a goldfish like quality. If today Trump* says the sky is blue, that he spent months calling it green no longer exists.
The CDC issued its first warning on Jan 8
Trump* held campaign rallies on Jan 9, Jan 14, Jan 28, Jan 30, Feb 10, Feb 19, Feb 20, Feb 21 & Feb 28 and what did he say about Covid-19 in them?
He golfed on Jan 18, Jan 19, Feb 1, Feb 15, Mar 7 & Mar 8, I guarantee you there's a tweet from him about prior Presidents for that
The first time he admitted the coronavirus might be a problem was Mar 13.
I don't believe for one second that he was not informed of what was going on in China every step of the way. If he was somehow isolated from the information someone should hang.
Just think what might have happened if the WH had held press conferences and been asked what they were doing about the threat of pandemic from China. Or would that have been a "nasty question" from fake news?
As far as the article goes, I guess you have to decide if you want to be:
A socialist country, where the government gets to choose what people can make, where they can buy and who they can sell to, it would be for the good of the people, of course.
Or sorta kinda socialist suggestion that a government agency(s) be responsible for the development and manufacture of (some) pharmaceuticals?
That have to be made in America.
Just do a federal construction project where you have to make sure that all the steel, etc. needs to be made in USA, see how much more it costs and source it on time. Just how did that work out for the Steel industry? And are Americans willing to pay the added cost?
Or do you want a free market economy?
Last year Forbes looked at what was going on in the US-China market and why.
For all-around emerging market manufacturing know-how, for reliability, for currency stability, for safety and for domestic market growth, China is No. 1. The rest are more like No. 100.
Last week, one of the biggest lobby groups for American multinationals in China, the U.S. China Business Council, put out their annual member survey. China was still as profitable or more so than other emerging markets where they have set up shop or source supply.
Only 3% said they were relocating to the U.S. because of tariffs. Under 7% said they were leaving China.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapo.../#1c02c24871de