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    1. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 30 Mar 2020

      We can roughly sort countries into places that have handled coronavirus well and handled it badly, and the US is pretty clearly in the badly camp. But statements such as “the US has handled this the worst of any major country” are not really so obvious from the evidence. Why?

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    2. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 30 Mar 2020

      1. There are *vast* differences in testing volume and reporting standards from county to country. The US has gone from very poor on testing to pretty good relative to other countries, and this will mean a higher nominal case count and make our slopes look steeper.

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    3. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 30 Mar 2020

      2. We’re a big country and you need to look at things on a per-capita basis. 3. We’re at a somewhat earlier stage of the epidemic than Europe, and there’s quite a bit of uncertainty about what things will look like a few weeks from now.

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    4. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 30 Mar 2020

      4. We’re a country with a federalist system and devolved decision-making authority. It’s likely that some parts of the US government (e.g. certain states/cities) are have handled this relatively well and some (e.g. the federal government) poorly.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 Mar 2020
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      This is true but I think one lesson from the pandemic is that combination of American federalism & American geographical mobility can't handle such a fast-spreading disease. In future, there has to be a prepared response at federal level

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        2. Dietary Fat‏ @dietary___fat 30 Mar 2020
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          inept federal response in order to own southern europe

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        1. Matt Seitz‏ @seitz2all 30 Mar 2020
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          Would you say the same about the EU?

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        1. John Harrold‏ @AbuMirchi 30 Mar 2020
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          The corollary is that we have to elect officials that believe the federal government has a legitimate role in responding to such events. Otherwise a prepared response is pretty useless.

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        1. David Greenwood‏ @djglowell 30 Mar 2020
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          Jeez I would be nice if the CDC had a pandemics office...oh wait.

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        1. Ward Peck‏ @wardspeck 30 Mar 2020
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          seasonal destinations should be maintained as spare capacity with the ability to accept either at risk populations or convalescing populations. We can test this with palm beach and mar a lago

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        1. Seren Thomas‏ @SerenThomasTS 30 Mar 2020
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          Federalism is not the problem. A real leader would long ago have shamed and scared the governors into doing the right thing. The problem is Donald Trump.

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        2. Nate Silver‏Verified account @NateSilver538 30 Mar 2020
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          Sure, but I've also found myself glad we do have a federalist system given the less-than-ideal response from the feds. In theory, if there were a good federal response too, we could sort of get the best of both worlds (i.e. a good default response + smart local customization).

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        1. H. McRichardson Blaine‏ @HMcrichardson 30 Mar 2020
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          Mr. Heer, from your posts to the government's ears.

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