2. Shut down public life weeks earlier, once it became clear there was community spread.
The Federal press conferences feature a few informative experts, but they also feature one very prominent source of disinformation: the guy in charge. He downplayed the virus for months, and gives rambling, poorly considered, sometimes damaging statements (e.g., causing a run on a drug needed by Lupus patients, because he likes the idea that this drug is a miracle cure that will allow America to go back to work). His latest performance was a dishonest attack on the WHO, meant to redirect blame for mismanagement of the crisis onto that organization.
Comparing the Federal press conferences to those in other countries is really eye-opening. If you want to see what good, factual, relatively unpolitical press conferences look like, take a look at the daily updates in Singapore or Germany.
1. Tested widely early on, like South Korea did.
2. Shut down public life weeks earlier, once it became clear there was community spread.
The Federal press conferences feature a few informative experts, but they also feature one very prominent source of disinformation: the guy in charge. He downplayed the virus for months, and gives rambling, poorly considered, sometimes damaging statements (e.g., causing a run on a drug needed by Lupus patients, because he likes the idea that this drug is a miracle cure that will allow America to go back to work). His latest performance was a dishonest attack on the WHO, meant to redirect blame for mismanagement of the crisis onto that organization.
Comparing the Federal press conferences to those in other countries is really eye-opening. If you want to see what good, factual, relatively unpolitical press conferences look like, take a look at the daily updates in Singapore or Germany.