Posted on 08/06/2022 2:34:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Once, I believed that the world is run by experts who know what to do. I believed that the best answer to a crisis is to listen to the experts and do what they say because they know best and can be trusted to have our interests at heart.
Yeah, I was an idiot. In my defense, I was young. Now I know better.
The list of expert failures is a long one. The Vietnam War, which predated my youthful enthusiasm for experts, was launched by what David Halberstam mockingly called “the best and the brightest” in a book by the same name.
They were well-educated, or at least well-credentialed, spoke with skill and enjoyed the regard of other ruling-class people. And they produced a debacle of the first order.
Since then, we have seen numerous instances of expert incompetence — just look at the management of the economy right now — but one of the most striking is the ongoing, generational ineptitude of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the rest of the public-health establishment in dealing with disease outbreaks.
Protester holds a sign with Joe Biden saying, "where are the shots?" during the demonstration.
The latest example is the government’s handling of monkeypox, which the Biden administration just declared a public-health emergency. As The New York Times recently reported, the US government had 20 million doses of monkeypox vaccine less than a decade ago. (It’s actually a smallpox vaccine called Jynneos, also effective against monkeypox.) But when we needed it, the so-called National Strategic Stockpile had only 2,400 doses on hand, enough to vaccinate just 1,200 people.
How did this happen? Bureaucratic incompetence and Food and Drug Administration foot-dragging. Bureaucrats allowed the vaccine to expire without being replaced because they wanted to develop a freeze-dried version
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bttt
Homo-pox is for homos.
Silly rabbit!
noglobohomo
Just rename the "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" to "Centers for Spreading Infections and Medical Disinformation."
They’ve had a lot of practice screwing things up
Then why are so many accepting Deep State’s assertion that this is monkeypox...?
Those idiots thought you could fight a war like it was an accounting department in a business. So many bullets would equal so many kills.
Combat doesn't work that way.
The biggest failure in strategy in Vietnam was never crossing the so called DMZ. We allowed Vietnam to play wherever they wanted. We didn't play to win.
IMHO it's akin to trying to play a football game and promising to never cross the 50.
Second biggest failure was allowing the media complete freedom in how they reported the war. It would always be our side they showed....never North Vietnam's.
Third was Hanoi Jane. Should have never let her back in the country.
Well, not so fast. What about a closet homo, who brings it home to his wife?
Of course they are; it’s what they do.
Don’t engage in dangerous sex. Period.
Biden-pox?
Ping
Wouldn’t be surprised if Hunter comes down with a case or 3.
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