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Comment by blhack | Hacker News Reader

What should the US president be doing right now that he isn't doing?

Telling the truth ("anybody that needs a test gets a test"), taking responsibility ("I don't take responsibility at all [for the lack of testing]"), making tough calls instead of leaving states and cities to fend for their own.

And the switch from "this is a hoax" to "I always knew this was a pandemic" doesn't inspire confidence either.

Activating core engineers to build field offices which they are trained to do. Getting factories to build paper masks for the public. Getting the car manufactures to build ventilators. Getting money and supplies to the hospitals. Activating the reserves to setup drive through testing in every major city.

Yale gym today: https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1241471079358611457

Is this sarcasm? This is exactly what is happening.

> Is this sarcasm? This is exactly what is happening.

I think this is what is said to be happening in press releases, but not occurring in fact (at least according to the governors who should be the beneficiaries of these acts)

Why do people go here and just post lies like this?

This absolutely IS what is happening, here is a press conference from the Us Army Corps of Engineers from two days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfCKuy5HH8&feature=emb_titl...

Look, I don't like Trump, I didn't vote for him, but it takes a pretty ridiculous warping of reality to say that he isn't taking this extremely seriously, isn't deferring to experts on this, and honestly isn't doing a pretty good job.

What more do people want? I wish we had a time machine and could go back to November, I'm sure everybody does. But we don't. What matters is what we're doing RIGHT NOW, and right now the things that I see happening all seem like good things.

Probably stepping out of the way and allowing epidemiologists to run the show and have the spotlight.

Have you watched any of the press conferences? That is exactly what he is doing. Drs Fauci, Burks, and Adams give lengthy addresses every day (although Burks and Adams were not present today), as well as answer questions from the press. Trump seems to be deferring to them pretty heavily in the question parts as well.

As far as having the spotlight: Dr. Fauci has basically become a household name amongst my peer group. He absolutely has the spotlight.

edit: could the people downvoting this please at least leave a comment?

Activating the DLA (Defense Logistics Agency) to handle supply control and distribution instead of this states vs. states and states vs. fed gangbang of bidding and suboptimal routing of resources that's going on right now.

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