Chris Hayes: Americans Are Unprepared For The Disruption Coronavirus May Cause Here

Chris, thank you so much for being

here

, thank you, um, let's talk about

coronavirus

during the minute of the show, yeah, that's a big thank you. I'm sure Elvis personally is

here

now, thank you, now you obey on reel 22, so you heard about that, what's reel 22? CD seat now, this is different when your instinct when you bought the Purell, yes, but when you wash your hands, the CDC says 20 seconds of washing, okay, that's two happy birthdays, okay, just a tenth, in You actually sing happy birthday or, even if they sue you, you don't. I love you, you have a house to yourself where you get a season, this letter in the bathroom, um,

coronavirus

, oh, that's a cheap high.

Now, speaking of coronavirus, that's going to affect the election be

cause

you know you're supposed to go to the places where you're touching that lever that the guy in the glass just touched, you know, and you're in a small, crammed area in a gym for seven hours. . Yes, I think there is a strong possibility that as we see more and more cases, which is inevitable as we see larger groups of what is called community transmission, which is person or person, not from a traveler, yes , many states and localities will have to start taking very aggressive mitigation efforts, closing schools, canceling concerts, conferences, there is a point where yes, you can run into a situation where there is a tension between mitigating the transmission of the virus and hold an election day and I think that's going to be a very difficult question for policymakers, but I think people are a little bit

unprepared

for the level of

disruption

that we're probably headed toward.

To know, one of the things that is a hallmark of modern politics, certainly republican, is the idea that governments, the problem, the government can't do anything, it will always make it worse, in situations like this, in pandemics or Outbreaks like that, a central office is needed. that the government can coordinate all behavior be

cause

diseases don't care about states' rights, what do you think of the response so far? Do you think we are receiving direct information from this government? I've really been struggling in my program to be careful and clear-headed, but this is what I'll say. I've been talking to experts for the past few days.

The response so far has been a failure and it has been terrible. How is that? Where are they? We are not testing what we have to do right now if you go to the CDC page they update once a day and close at 4:00 p.m. They tell you that there are 80 cases in the United States. There isn't a single public health expert in this country who thinks that's a real number. Nobody thinks it's a real number because it's not the real number. We have genetic evidence that the disease virus has been in Washington state for five or six weeks.

Before the first case was detected, we had computer models that suggested there could be five or six hundred cases. We know that the more you try, the more you discover. This has been the experience in South Korea. South Korea is conducting ten thousand tests a day. hundreds of tests so far, right now we have a recorded case fatality rate of 10%, which is also something that everyone knows, is not the case, there has been a complete failure to implement accurate large scale testing at the scale that It is necessary to cover the scope of the epidemic well, who, where is the information, where could I find this information because it is, it is, it is me.

I think it's better to know than not to know that knowledge is not the enemy, although I think this particular government doesn't want you to know that. things so they can control the narrative, which is that where we should look for the best data that we have right now is that Johns Hopkins essentially runs a website where there are case reports; you can go to their website and see it on a map again. However, the problem is that we are not testing enough to know the true extent and I agree with you that from the beginning, from the top, the message from the current leaders of the Knight States is that cases will reach zero , could disappear like a miracle, it is not.

It's going to be that bad, these are targeted, the first two are direct appointments, for sure, and there may only be one vaccine in two months, I mean, I was literally in the White House, a random guy today came out and said: three days came from the vaccine and it's good and then he thought he had to come out and say hello, we're not going to have one for 18 months, right, none of this delays anything at the NIH or them or the CDC allergic infectious diseases. o Anthony Foutch II this is a message from the political leadership they have sent the message to the bureaucracy and the public they want this to go away they don't want to be a big problem they don't want the brand to be a tank and we don't want it to hurt the economy and the fact is that we have already learned from the trail of this pandemic from China to Korea, Japan and Italy that the worst thing to do at the beginning of this is to slow down and deny the scope of the problem you are dealing with, well on that happy note Chris, many Thank you, thank God, oh yes, thank you very much, we will be back with chef David Chang.