It used to be that government websites were the reliable and trusted source for public health information. No more. When they can't even get a testing kit right and politicians are allowed to censor them, they're worse than useless. I believe nothing any of them say anymore without verification from reputable, reliable sources.

The CDC can't be trusted anymore because they've been defunded, censored, and staffed with bootlickers. Right now, I'm getting all of my COVID-19 information from other than U.S. government sources because our agencies have been corrupted with anti-science bullshit and politicized.

California should develop its own test kits.

We are so far behind other countries. South Korea and Italy have driveup testing. That is the way to go, no sitting in germ filled waiting rooms to be tested.

Drive-up testing probably has pros and cons, just like every other plan, but innovation is necessary under the circumstances. Trump also has withheld or tried to withhold federal funds from various California departments out of spite, so part of this could be funding problems. I am confident, though, that our state leadership is doing everything possible to optimize our response now and improve preparedness for the future.

And Trump infected our state by bringing infected evacuees to our state and receiving them with unquarantined, untrained and unprotected HHS staff rather than a pandemic response team. Trump disbanded Obama's pandemic response team. As far as I can tell, they still have not been reconstituted.

Trump will do whatever he can get away with to sabatoge (and preferably cripple) California, but he won't succeed. We have the will and the economy to spit back in his face, and we'll get through this.

One of the things Calif has to be prepared for is Trump's continual efforts to screw us on purpose. He literally hates NY and CA for opposing him, and no depth is too low, no tactic too petty for this evil man.

It's been my hope that Newsom would be preparing on all fronts. California has the will, the leadership, and the economy to weather Trump's tantrums until the unholy terror is finally gone.

I figure most hospitals have the raw materials to MacGyver one

At least some of them are probably available through general scientific supply companies and the State, being as big as it is, may be able to contract with one of those to obtain everything needed. Of course, if all the chemicals and supplies to make the kits come from China, that would be a complication.

PCR machines are quite standard. Any decent university lab has them.

Which we've all got in our government today.

It's a perfect storm of incompetence.

The CDC has taken heavy cuts since the orange menace took office. Science is not the enemy here, he is. Scientists across the country in labs at universities and hospitals have seen their research funding slashed in the past 3 years. He has implanted in the minds of his minions the idea that science and truth are their enemy. They think smart people are "making fun of them" well we are, but anyway, they see all intelligent people as "libs who must be destroyed".

I know at least 4 researchers at our institution and others around the country who have been working on super bugs and can't get the funding to complete the research. This is only the beginning if we don't remove this man right away and find a way to silence fox news and their constant attack on education and science in particular.

I don't trust that they will wake up when they start dying. I think they will just blame all of us again, and Obama of course.