Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid-19 threat

Re:Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid... by exegete on Thursday March 12, 2020 @07:18AM (#22555605)

So to you would consider what’s been done so far by the US federal government not theater?

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Re:Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid... by rsynnott on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:43AM (#22556191)

The US is doing particularly badly (and going for nonsensical solutions; note the most recent one). Various Asian and European states are being much more aggressive. Some US states are also doing the best they can.

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Re:Why some governments appear not to be acting on the Covid... by KarlKemp on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:00AM (#22555860)

There are countries besides Belgium and the US (thank God!). Sou5 Korea seems to be doing ok, Italy is certainly doing the right things, even China did pretty well, especially considering they didn’t get advanced warning.

In the US, a lot of the action is at the state level, and WA, for example, seems to be doing fine.

The federal response, and especially the testing situation, is complete amateur-hour bordering on negligence-in-the-criminal-sense, yes.

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