Pluristem Therapeutics Inc (PSTI)

[skitahoe]

That's true, but let's look at how it could have been done properly. At that time the Chinese and others had effective tests, what if instead of stopping flights he said all much be tested.

Right now, we can't travel to Europe, etc. How hard would it be to put the 15 minute testing equipment at the airport and test every passenger, or member of a flight crew, before they could get on a properly sanitized plane. Even with such precautions some will get through, but most will be eliminated. Covid-19 exists practically everywhere in the world, we need to cut it's spread, but if we can bring it down dramatically, I believe we can live with some who're carring it. Of course once a working vaccine is out, much will change.

Trump could have had far greater success if he'd have worked with Congress, both houses, in how to approach Covid-19. Of course he could have started much earlier, but then he ignored the threat for a month or more before stopping the flights from China. By the time he did it, New York found that most of their infections came from Europe, so clearly it was spreading everywhere. Had the pandemic task force not been abandoned, I suspect we'd have reacted months earlier and been prepared. We're still being reckless in not ordering industry to build more PPE, as well as more protective gear for consumers.

We're now at the point where far more financial relief is needed. States and cities will need it as much as businesses and the unemployed as all their revenues are down dramatically. Once Covid-19 is under control, things can open up slowly, but clearly they can't be opened until things are under control. Something like 30% of the kids at school age in Florida were found to be infected, clearly that's a number that doesn't permit schools opening. I'm not sure it would be safe if 5% of kids had it, and all were routinely tested and positives eliminated. Bar's reopening led to tremendous spikes in infections as they were crowded, we can't have the schools do the same next month. I would suspect that the Black Lives Matter marches also caused spread, but they were outdoors, which is safer. Clearly distance and masks are important, but being outdoors is far safer, so clearly as the weather worsens going into Winter, greater problems will be coming if we don't have this under serious control.

Gary