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Yeah, but this is more about implementation of policy changes affecting the R~t~ of the virus, lag between the rate changing and the detection of that change in terms of actual measurements of the number of infections, etc. Even if Trump deliberately appointed somebody to send out an edict that poultry farms create the ideal conditions for the virus to spread as quickly as possible, there's still some lag for that appointment to happen, for the edict to be communicated to the farmers, for them to implement it, and then even under those ideal conditions the virus still can reproduce only so fast.
You're absolutely right, it would take way longer if they told them to create the ideal conditions to spread the disease. They did slightly something slightly different though, they said "we no longer care about this regulation" which gets people to start fucking things up quite a bit faster than "change the way you do this for this new regulation"
You're not wrong that they're probably isn't a measurable a difference yet, but I guarantee that it's coming and it's going to come hard