New US president, new Covid team, will there be major difference?

The one thing the US election will show the world is just how differing the views and opinions in the medical and science profession are on the coronavirus. Trump had his own team of medical and science advisors on how the country should deal with virus. Now Biden has been elected president, this means he will be selecting his own team of medical and science advisors who will no doubt have different views and opinions on doing things than what Trumps covid team did.

This is very important because many countries around the world have the same team dealing with the virus. The UK has been listening and taking the advice from the same advisors ever since the pandemic started. Would a different team of advisors give exactly the same advice or would they have different views and opinions and thus act in a totally different way? Many of the UK media have found others virus experts who've given their opinions on how the UK government should be dealing with the virus and many times it is at odds with the governments own advisors. Therefore who is right, the governments advisors or the other virus experts.

This we will be able to see in action because Biden's covid team will be different to that of Trumps covid team and thus there is going to be differing of views and opinions which will predicate what action to take. If Biden's team does things differently to Trumps team, who's team of experts is right?

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Which team will be right? That's going to be the $64k question. As far as I can tell, none of these "EXPERTS" have had their recent, TV and media publicised work on this pandemic peer reviewed in which case it should be treated as spurious at least until it has been reviewed.

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That's the trouble with experts - they can talk a good talk but the reality is all too often that when it boils down to the nitty gritty it is all about personal opinion.
In other words it is guesswork.
Educated guesswork, maybe.
But guesswork nonetheless.
That's why if you fill a room with "experts" on any subject whatsoever you'll see a room full of disagreement.


Biden is going to be just like every other world leader dealing with coronavirus in that whatever he does and whoever he pays attention too, there will be those who agree and those who don't.
So just like the rest, he can't win.
No matter what he does.

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What will be interesting to see is how the social media companies handle all of this because at the current moment, anyone who is in a position of authority who posts their view or opinion and that view or opinion is considered misleading, the social media companies remove the post. This has happened quite a lot during the election.

Now with a new covid team being assembled by Biden, Trumps team are no longer in a position of authority so if the covid advisors that were on Trumps team see something they do not like happening with Biden's covid team and they report about it on social media, are the social media companies going to censor their posts under the guise of 'misleading' because the posts will be seen as counter productive to the new official covid team that will be in place.

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I reckon there's going to be a few red faces in the Biden team of experts when the virus still works its way through the population like it has always done despite the change of eggheads......

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I agree. They will try to get one over on the Trump administration by coming up with ideas and solutions they think will work but they wont.

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Hi

The trump approach has been disastrous, the figures show that.

The South Asian Approach has been much more effective and much less economic damage.

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We'll ignore the fact that your "South Asian" peoples are often extremely compliant and submissive, shall we?

It's hardly surprising when South Korea for example used private data from card transactions; phone locations; restaurant camera footage; and far more to reinforce tracking & tracing - no privacy for South Koreans!

Compare that to - say - France where only 3.6% of people downloaded the track & trace app.
Or here where only 11% of people obey restrictions when they have been informed they are covid-positive.

Has Trump's approach been "disastrous"?
No.
So far it doesn't look like it's been a good approach, but given that people are pretty much going to do their own thing regardless of what somebody tells them who's to say how much he's really influenced things?
Would harsh measures have done any better and would those have prevented an even greater anti-measure movement than we've seen?
Who really knows but if you're honest with yourself the likelihood is that any differences would - in terms of the huge numbers involved - been minimal.

Why are you picking on Trump (and no, I;m not a fan but ...) ?
Is it because of bias?
Is it because he's the easy target?

Again I will tell you that I am no great fan of Trump.
I also don't think that he's helped the situation.
But why aren't you describing Bolsonaro the same way? After all, he's "responsible" for more deaths per head of population than Trump.

Why are you not similarly attacking the EU's Spanish leader who, again, is "responsible" for again more deaths per head of population than Trump?
Or Belgium's leader who is overseeing a rate over 50% more than the USA's in a much smaller country?

I think we all know why.

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Anything that does not involve Trump must be an improvement!

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What is the south asian approach Swimmy??
From what l have seen everybody was wearing masks for years
BEFORE the virus arrived??

Donkeyman! 😇😇