a cop in the nba chestnut been politically possible under donald donald trump. imagine the backlash we ve had at the cdc had said hey let s use a german test. this is about another huge decision that was made to not copy the test that was already excellent. to build an america first one, that didn t end up working. these investigators are saying, how come you didn t do this? it wasn t their job, it was a job of their bosses to say maybe we should had have more than one test. maybe we should use is really good one from germany? they didn t do that. then all the blame fell on these guys, when things went to fault with their test. what s interesting to me here is that there is a single point a failure. there s a combination of things that i keep seeing replay throughout this pandemic, even after donald trump left. some bureaucratic inertia, a sort of lack of decisive leadership at one letter above the folks that are working the civil servants. then, in the case of trump, this kind of