Posted on 05/04/2020 5:30:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The late Richard Feynman, one of the 20th century’s eminent physicists, famously said, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” Unfortunately, the response of experts to the coronavirus pandemic has vindicated Feynman’s claim.
Experts in the supposedly scientific fields of public health and economics have made a mess of things. Their failures would be comedic, were the consequences not so tragic. Instead of capable service for the public’s welfare, the American people have been made to suffer incompetence and malfeasance. Unless we critically examine the failure of experts, we invite similar blunders in the future.
In terms of incompetence, it would be difficult to top this country’s public health officials. Case in point is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC, as it describes itself, “saves lives and protects people from health, safety, and security threats.” In truth, it has directly contributed to the opposite.
One glaring failure of the United States in regards to the pandemic is testing. We lag significantly behind other countries. This is largely the CDC’s fault. The virus genome was mapped in January, and private tests were available not long after. But the CDC ordered these private labs to halt, coming up with its own test, which proved to be defective.
In fact, many of the testing kits assembled by the CDC were contaminated! Had the CDC not dropped the ball, we could have moved towards mass testing much sooner. This in turn would lessen the economic harm of the several states’ stay-at-home orders. In other words, the CDC’s incompetence is directly responsible for thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars in economic damage.
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Feynman was wonderful, a genius and a rake, all at once. His books about his life, including his life as one of the youngest physicists at the core of the Manhattan Project, are quite interesting. Highly recommended. What I wouldn’t give to have him around to opine on our Warmists.
Title’s first word:
Mr Author, you misspelled
“Subversive”
ahh, you’re welcome
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