Answer to question why is the “English” COVID strain in the UK & not the US?

Simple. Because the UK has surveillance testing & the US still doesn’t. 1/

The Trump Administration had plenty of opportunity to build a national testing strategy with surveillance testing for THE LAST ELEVEN MONTHS $ chose not to. 2/

Instead Trump decided that we were “testing too much” and it was making him look bad. 3/

A testing strategy would have required a national strategy. Trump decided that would mean taking responsibility. And the stock market was moving back up. So he abandoned a national strategy. 4/

I had arguments with several Republicans in Congress when they were passing money for testing. They argued it was “the states’ role.” 5/

So now a new strain comes and we can’t discover it. We allowed, frankly, a not smart person, a not caring person, and a stupidly ideological Congress to make the decisions. 6/