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You don’t deserve to know his plan... much like his position on packing the Supreme Court or any other policy position.
A1 that was GOLD
Not much will significantly change as far as the actual response other than (1) Biden will have controlled, predictable rhetoric and messaging to the public bringing a sense and perception of control over the situation to the masses, and (2) The Mainstream Media will completely change their tune to the overall national crisis post-election
Pro
That... works. You don’t need a complicated solution if (a) the easy one is effective, and (b) your competition refuses to adopt the easy solution. Other things that work: actual contact tracing, testing and in-facility quarantining those traveling.
BCG3 I interned at Facebook as a SWE very aware of what’s be tracked just by Facebook Graph. Can’t even imagine Google. I’m talking about the average American who can’t even be bothered to change default settings. Also everyone forgets people lie to the in person contact tracers my neighbor has had several visitors and parties when he got it he told the DC officials he was indoors alone the entire time.
Chief
A national mask mandate will save lives. Unfortunately the current president is not in favor of it due to optics.
Scientists and medical professionals speak heading the response has a better chance of succeeding than the First Son in Law running it
Rising Star
No one expects it to stop covid, just slow it and reduce the number of infected
I do not want a national mandate for anything. I do not want the federal government handling contact tracing. I do not want the federal government forcing mask usage - leave that up to individual businesses if they want to enforce it.
Look at the governments overreach following 9/11.
Trump is a total clown in setting the right example for the country but outside of that, hindsight aside, I’m not sure the federal government could have responded any better. Citing European countries response is starting to backfire and outside of Asian countries that are homogenous, have dealt with previous pandemics, and authoritarian governments, I don’t think any country has been able to curb this virus.
D10, as a McKinsey consultant pointed out, 85% of people are wearing mask. Anecdotally, I don’t see anyone in grocery stores or Starbucks or stores in general not wearing a mask. Again, I’m missing the need for a federal mandate.
If Trump would have imposed this during the BLM protest, sent in the national guard, arrested all protesters not wearing a masks, and charge them with a federal crime, would you consider that an “infringement of liberty”?
Everyone should be very careful what they wish for. Look at post 9/11 and how nothing has been clawed back. I’m sure a lot of people on this bowl are too young to remember going to an airport without this security theater but if you feel like TSA is not violating anyone’s rights, you’re sadly mistaken.
Wearing masks as a start. It’s a massive change compared to the clown...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/feeds.aarp.org/health/healthy-living/info-2020/states-mask-mandates-coronavirus.html%3F_amp%3Dtrue
Only 33 states currently have a mask mandate. I was in Georgia last weekend and went to an outdoor bar wearing a mask. No one else was and I got judgmental looks for wearing mine.
Chief
There’s none except contact tracing ... oh wait we’ve been doing that since March ... so nothing. Just empty promise and plain bs
We’re not even contract tracing the plague spread by the president himself. In fact, it’s forbidden.
Pro
Honestly, other decently run European countries that believe in individual freedom and care about people’s rights like Switzerland or the Netherlands, did not find any magical solution to all of this. Despite the right messaging and good mask compliance, Contact tracing is getting overwhelmed again now that a 2nd wave has begun, citizens are fed up there too.
All this to say that unless we go full centralized surveillance / police state, until there is some form of vaccine, there is no magical solution that any new US administration can come up with.
Pro
Agreed OP, here in the NY suburbs New Rochelle was receiving food delivered by the national guard to elderly citizens for a while. But that’s a small isolated case, not sure it can scale well and was entirely voluntary. No one forced/locked in their own homes like some other authoritarian govts did.
Rising Star
Author...the Biden campaign website has a fairly detailed plan that describes everything from contact tracing to testing to paid leave and a lot more. Go there are read it....
Rising Star
https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/
Rising Star
https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/
Look at at Trump’s COVID plan and you’ll get a good idea of Joe’s plan
Operation warp speed basically recommended steps for states to take and rewriting a much of regulations so a vaccine can hit the market faster. It leaves most decisions in the hands of states though which none have properly implemented they have either gone way above like NY or well below like Georgia.
Dude doesn't even know where he is
Not describing the virus as a hoax would be a good start in my book
I agree I don’t see any massive alternative solution that would be drastically different... Plus when asked about the mask mandate they couldn’t/didn’t have a plan to enforce it. I don’t think we can afford to lockdown for another two weeks and the disease isn’t going to magically disappear after two weeks, and people aren’t going to willingly lockdown for two weeks again after people have so much fatigue from restrictions. Also to compare this virus to handling h1n1 and Ebola isn’t a fair comparison
Contact tracing is crucial
Pro
European countries doing it in a respectful manner are now overwhelmed due to the 2nd wave and basically quietly giving up. Even some of the wealthiest places in Europe are only reaching possibly 15% of traced contacts. And when they do reach people you end up having thousands of people being self quarantined and disrupting the entire economies of European capitals. Biden administration will bring nothing new to the table until we get vaccines.
A mask mandate would do wonders here. I think we just fine people and businesses who don’t comply. No BS excuses allowed.
Still beats someone who makes fun of his opponent for always wearing a mask.
There’s no silver bullet here; no party can mandate masks nationwide in US. Unless you go on a lockdown and close the economy (which will hurt much more people), you can’t stop the numbers growing.
Mask mandate and social distance requirements would do wonders. Once Trump is gone and the cult starts to fade, people will comply. If they don’t, fine them. There should be consequences for not following the rules.
Pshhh Biden....