ything that would allow us to test our way out. We're nowhere near the number, and we're nowhere near the number of tests available. We're nowhere near testing the right people. We're not even close.

And I think that you know again people give me a hard time for bolstering the president and saying everything he does is good, but I've been brutal about the reporting from the task force in terms of giving us useful numbers. I would say that the task force's ability to give the public useful information, effectively zero. Just a failing grade. Just a pure failing grade. I can't even give them a D-minus. It's just a pure failing grade. One of the darkest, I would say one of the maybe the biggest mistakes of the Trump administration, I would say so. Yeah, maybe I can think of a few other things because it's hard to think of everything that's happened. But I would say among the most grossly embarrassing incompetent performances is the reporting on the numbers.

Yeah, I think the overall effort is probably successful, but in terms of just specifically the question of is the public being informed? No. Now is it the administration's fault that we don't have enough tests and the right kind of tests and the right kind of priorities? Probably. Probably. Now they're doing this technique. They're using is making sure that the private sector is deeply involved and they're not trying to push too hard as long as the private sector is willing to step up. And they are. But the way the tests are, there's so many different ones. We don't know which ones are accurate.

And then Bill Gates said this on CNN I think. Apparently the tests we have, you're only going to get them if you have symptoms. All right, so if you have symptoms, you've already been spreading it. So getting the test after you have symptoms doesn't help you for all of the time that you already had symptoms and you were spreading it. And it doesn't help you get treatment before that. So in other words, they can't fix the past. And since the only people getting tests were the ones prioritized, the ones who have symptoms, you didn't help the past. But do you help the future? And the answer is it takes about three days to get a result.

You keep hearing about the fast tests. Those exist, but I don't think they're the majority. So imagine that you've had it for five days. You've got symptoms. You've been spreading it like crazy. You get the test and you still don't know. You have it for three days. What do you do for those three days? You live your normal life and you spread it around. So by the time you get it, as Bill Gates says, by the time you get the test result, you've already spread it around and you're practically over it by the time you get the result.

Now yes, there are faster tests and there are startups that have even faster tests and the media tests coming in. But what information do you have about that? Have you seen the chart that says this is how many we have, this is how many the experts say we need of this type, and this is how we're getting there or anything like that? No. No. My advice to you is to make your decision about the whole situation as if testing doesn't exist, as if it's not an option. I would say that it is so poorly reported that you have to assume it's just not even a path. And Bill Gates basically just laughed at it. He freaking laughed at it. He laughed at it that it's not even close. It's not even in the conversation of being something that could be helpful. Just think about that.

And most of the reporting, most of the experts have said we need to do more testing. We all know that. There's nobody who doesn't think if we can magically test everybody we'd be better off. But apparently it's hard to make test kits and it's hard to get it done. So I don't think that we're going to have anything like a testing solution before we have herd immunity accidentally.

I keep watching Tucker Carlson's show where he is essentially complaining the whole show about totalitarianism and how our freedom and rights have all been taken from us and how we kind of just handed them over. To which I say I feel like I'm just watching crazy town. It just looks crazy at this point. Now I'm a big fan of Tucker and I think his show is one of the best shows on TV of its type. You know, in the news genre, definitely one of the best shows of its type. But this particular theme that he's on that we've given up all our freedoms is both true and trivial and unimportant at the same time.

Because let's say you're in a coma. Have you lost your rights? Yeah, you have. Let's say because you can't do all the things you could do before. If you're in jail, have you lost your rights? Yes. If you're in a dangerous neighborhood, can you do all the things you want? No. If you're temporarily, if you have to go to work, are you free? Not really. You have to go to work. So we live in a world in which this little freedom thing is sort of fluid and we're figuring it out as we go. But we have a general idea where we want it to be, but we're always s