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Originally Posted by detbuch
Let us not overlook that much of our medical supply production was transferred to China during the past decades. Had we been the producer rather than just the buyer, ramping up would have been much easier.
Same goes for a lot of other critical essential tech stuff, as needed e.g. by our military. Really brilliant decision by our past administrations to, of all countries, depend on China. Trump is the only President, since the rise of that fiasco, to make an effort to bring production, critical and otherwise, back home.
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I’m not disagreeing with those points, far to many companies have taken their business elsewhere, my point is this started elsewhere and models from others predicted what would happen in every country this came to and this administration did not gear up quickly or make hard decisions and put out the correct messaging to slow this spread or get the medical supplies manufactured early enough. It doesn’t just fall on Trumps head, but his leadership and downplaying of this has really been terrible. Everyone on this board is entitled to their opinion on how this has been handled, you don’t have to like mine view, feel free to disagree in a respectful and civil way if your capable wink wink.