Covid19 - The inept of the USA and UK is a laughable, unbelieveable

We have seen how the Trump Administration fumbles and tumbles through this pandemic and showing the world that it was run buy a bunch of clowns headed by the biggest clown of all times. The number of infections and deaths are all for the world to see, from 1 case to nearly 1.5m to date and more than 80,000 dead and still climbing. No country can ever catch up with the USA.

Britain is next on the list, though it started a bit later but is fast catching up to be the two most affected countries in the world. Their failures to provide for all the basic and essential medical equipment and PPEs is not funny at all as their health care workers are dying while trying to save the sick. How could this be, did not have enough and proper equipment for healthcare providers is a sin, a criminal act, a disgraceful act of incompetence.

Though they bragged about their national stockpiles but when needed, many of the stocks have already passed their use by dates, expired, unuseable. And no one bothers to upkeep and check on these stocks and replenish them when required.  This is like the American nuclear arsenal, many would not work should the fire button be pressed due to ageing and lack of maintenance, old expired stocks.

Then there is the lack of test kits. They do not have test kits and went on a match scramble to acquire them. And when they ramped up their production capacity, most of the test kits are unworkable, faulty, unrealiable. My God these are two of the most advanced nations on earth and everyday laughing at developing countries like China for being backward and still have to beg China to sell them the needed test kits.

Until today they are still under testing their people for lack of test kits. Can you believe that? And in the case of the USA, without proper testing and a sizeable number of tests, they are opening up their economy and risk a bigger spread of the disease. Economy more important than the lives of Americans.

There are more to the test kits than just test kits.  All test kits are different and some work, some work with 95% accuracy, some 80% or less. Anything less than 90% accuracy is as good as useless. The American's version of rapid testing is failing for low accuracy. They dare not talk about it.

Having test kits is not the solution. The procedure to test is vital for it to be effective. The testers must be trained to take the sample for testing and the test must be done asap. It is a joke in the USA to do a test and wait for more than 10 days to know the result.What is the point? Even 2 days is too long. In fact after a test the same subject could be infected in the next few hours or days when exposed, or already exposed but not yet enough virus to pass the test.

Today there is another report of the incompetence of the Brits when one of their testing facilities failed to deliver. They sent 50,000 test kits to the US for assessment. How long would it take to do that, how many days before the subjects be finally informed of the results? This is an ex Empire and doing such basic testing in such a clumsy way and sending test kits to the most inept country, the USA for validation? Unbelieveable that these supposedly advanced countries are so amatuerish in handling a straight forward procedure as testing.

And while they failed miserably in testing, which they thought would be enough, they failed again miserably in contact tracing. No need to hazard a guess.  The sheer volume of people testing possitive daily would mean they need an army of people to do contact tracing, which they did not have, did not bother to have. So, what is the point of testing? What is testing for if contact tracing is ignored? And quarantine is hardly heard of other then staying at home.  If they were to provide for quarantine facilities like what Singapore did, can't imaging what kind of space they need to cater for the hundreds of thousands needed to be quarantined.

So much said and so much bragging but exposing a bunch of incompetents and clowns. Come to Singapore and learn how to do it the right way. Do not feel inferior when talking to our super talented million dollar ministers. They are the best money can buy. Oops, we also have a few hitches here and there but not for lack of test kits, lack of contact tracing personnel, but, well....Our foreign worker infection rate is an exception to the rule. Not counted. Nevermind if recovered patients can still be reinfected. Nevermind when asymtomatical cases can still infect.

The most important thing to note is that community spread is well under control and we can even be thinking of having a General Election very soon, I think. Where got community spread? The 20,000 plus infected foreign workers are all in dormitories, kept out from the community. Very safe.

Ok, don't laugh. I mean don't laugh at the Americans and Brits. Just praise them for doing so well, especially the Americans, they have prevailed as the number One most Covid19 cases, dead or alive.