This is somewhat misleading. What is happening is new york; realizing the federal govt can't provide kits is paying a private company to test people. This is allowing them to perform 10,000+ tests a night. So what we have are more confirmed cases but not not a rapid ramp up in infection rate (mind you the infection rate is probably accelerating but we don't know that yet due to lack of tests).
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Can we say it again - If trump had just spent a couple of billion of dollars on test kits 6 weeks ago we would likely not be in this mess.
Trump has a lot of flaws but i'm not sure selfish whatever is the problem here. He is just plain stupid. Well he is not totally stupid after all he did get elected but then again i'm always shocked how many people are conned - anyway i'm getting off topic.
We do need strong leadership but i'm not sure we will ever find it while trump is in office. His ego is too large (that is a real problem) to turn things over to others or take advice and his skill level is well - i'm sure we could find someone who would do a worse job somewhere but i'm not sure whom.