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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4423991" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>My point about Italy is that you talk of the U.S. like it&#039;s the only country that matters and our leadership is the only leadership that failed.&nbsp; This virus is in every corner of the world.&nbsp; And Italy in terms of death has been hit a lot worse than us and the only reason we&#039;ve got more cases now is because Italy finally put a serious clamp down on movement.&nbsp; And yes it&#039;s each state&#039;s responsibility to be prepared for disasters and emergencies.&nbsp; This is comparable to local leaders trying to shift blame to the feds after a hurricane when the Federal government has to be formally requested to come in.&nbsp; The Federal government isn&#039;t all powerful and certain powers and responsibilities are reserved at the state level.&nbsp; Andrew Cuomo just tried to shift blame to Trump but it came out he was offered a good deal on respirators in 2015 or 16.&nbsp; 16,000 of them and he passed on them.&nbsp; And early on the World Health Organization was being told by China that the virus wasn&#039;t transmitting human to human.&nbsp; You can&#039;t make appropriate decisions when you&#039;re being lied to.&nbsp; Apparently the Chinese had hoped to cover this up until it ran it&#039;s course.&nbsp; A lot of moving parts to this, too many to put blame squarely on one leader.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 4423991, member: 24302"] My point about Italy is that you talk of the U.S. like it's the only country that matters and our leadership is the only leadership that failed. This virus is in every corner of the world. And Italy in terms of death has been hit a lot worse than us and the only reason we've got more cases now is because Italy finally put a serious clamp down on movement. And yes it's each state's responsibility to be prepared for disasters and emergencies. This is comparable to local leaders trying to shift blame to the feds after a hurricane when the Federal government has to be formally requested to come in. The Federal government isn't all powerful and certain powers and responsibilities are reserved at the state level. Andrew Cuomo just tried to shift blame to Trump but it came out he was offered a good deal on respirators in 2015 or 16. 16,000 of them and he passed on them. And early on the World Health Organization was being told by China that the virus wasn't transmitting human to human. You can't make appropriate decisions when you're being lied to. Apparently the Chinese had hoped to cover this up until it ran it's course. A lot of moving parts to this, too many to put blame squarely on one leader. [/QUOTE]

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