Once concern I've had since the beginning of COVID19 showing up in the US is that some number of our tests should be dedicated to randomized testing of the population. Without any idea of what the level of "background radiation" exists  any data from testing of symptomatic or "exposed" individuals is crippled by our complete ignorance of the "underground" prevalence of the disease in the general population. Our understanding and conclusions drawn from our limited data set are bound to lead to faulty conclusions of how best to deal with the disease. I'm still surprised that I have not heard or read of a single epidemiologist proposing or referring to randomized survey of COVID 19 infection.

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Read what Dr. Birx actually said about antibody tests. (50:16) vs Donald Trump: (19:19) And please enlighten me if... She doesn't give me a warm fuzzy for phase one.

The insidious thing about this disease is that people can be asymptomatic and still transmit it. I agree it's essentially too late for current infection tests - I hope. We need antibody tests that work. States need to provide the human resources if required but the feds need to get the materials needed and labs that can process the tests. The Defense Production Act comes to mind. And we need full disclosure. The truth. Not this tippy toe feel good BS we seem to be getting from the daily briefings.

For all anyone knows, a large portion of the country could have already had it so transmission rates may be less than feared by now. No one knows diddly at this point.

What bothers me is the same guy who Tweets "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" on April 17th, proudly tells us "We’re now the the king of ventilators. We have hundreds of thousands under construction." (GM will have produced 30,000 ventilators by the end of August.) Actually, I guess maybe those two things taken together do make sense if you lack empathy and just want to market a brand.

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  Don't forget that the President HAD to use the threat of the Defense Production Act to GET GM to do what they promised to do. Same with 3M.

Far better for people and companies to step-up on their own than the government telling them what they should be doing. Bureaucrats DON'T know what a companies capabilities are any more than they know what the AVERAGE citizen is capable of doing.

  I wouldn't want to be in ANY President's shoes at a time like this. If they don't keep the country locked down until there are NO Covid-19 deaths as SOME would argue, he lacks empathy.

If he doesn't start the country working and businesses go out to never return, he lacks empathy for the working people.

  No matter what he does it will be wrong in the eyes of some people. The election will prove which point of view the majority of people have.

I think you just dodged my question ST. Fair enough. Here's another. What was the intent behind this name dropping BS?

Donald Trump: (34:03)
Fidelity investments, Abigail Johnson, MasterCard, Visa, Chubb, Sequoia, Stephens; Warren Stephens, great. Charles Schwab, Chuck Schwab will be here by phone. Food and Beverage National Restaurant Association, McDonald’s, Darden Restaurants, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Chick Fil A, Subway, Bloomin’ Brands, Yum brands, Papa John’s, Wendy’s, waffle house. Starbucks, Wolfgang Pub, Thomas Keller, John George, my friend John George and Danielle, you know them. From the transportation world, FedEx, Fred Smith, the legend. United Airlines, Oscar Beunos, UPS, David Abney, JB Hunt, YRC Worldwide, Crowley, Maritime, Credible, big powerful shippers in transportation companies. In telecommunications we have the legendary John Malone of Liberty Media, Verizon, T-Mobile, Charter Communications, and Brian Roberts of Comcast. Thank you all very much. Healthcare, New York Presbyterian, Jerry Spire, friend of mine, HCA Healthcare. Sam Hazen. Thank you, Sam. Just met with Sam. Ascension Health, Common Spirit Health, Community Health Systems, Trinity Health, Cardinal Health, McKesson, 3M. Thank you Mike Roman for helping us with the face masks. It worked out well for everybody. Proctor and Gamble, Abbott Laboratories, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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How was that waste of time helpful to anyone?

What is wrong with giving CREDIT where credit is due? Business people both large and small have been recognized in those briefings. Same with all the First responders he's always mentioning. You call it BS, I call it good PR. 

  You can bet another President of a different party would be doing the same thing but not with the same people that's for sure.

  He hosted a little salute to the nation's truckers at the WH too, I think most of them appreciated the fact he was recognizing their importance too.