What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?
It‘s so sad to watch, but compared to any other developed and affluent nation (and with equal time to prepare), the US is a complete shitshow at this point.<p>The complete lack of leadership and resulting power vacuum resulted in valuable time lost bickering, blaming and thumb twiddling that could have gone towards preventing the second wave. This is a community spread at this stage and another hundred thousand people are all but guaranteed to die. It‘s mindblowing.<p>Here in Germany, I‘m getting my test results within 3 days via SMS (usually same-day for positive results) and can enter it into an app to warn others.<p>Everybody wears a mask indoors and nobody but a very small minority complains. Social distancing is enforced by usually friendly police which the people mostly trusts to do its job.<p>It‘s just so sad to see how personal „freedom to choose“ turned into the achilles heel of one of the formerly greatest nations on Earth.