How Bad Regulation, Bureaucracy Slowed The Fight Against Deadly Wuhan Coronavirus

Issues & Insights ^ | March 30, 2020 | I and I Editorial Board

[CheshireTheCat]

Amid all the political name-calling and finger-pointing over who’s to blame and how to attack the Wuhan coronavirus, one thing surprisingly gets little mention at all: regulation. But bad regulation not only slowed our response, it likely added to our death count.

We’re happy to note that in recent days and weeks, President Trump has helped ease the regulatory burden of our response to the coronavirus, pushing Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, our main health agencies, to bend, suspend and in some cases upend useless rules.

But that doesn’t mean every useless regulation was excised from the rulebooks. Or that our major health care regulators made good decisions with the billions of dollars entrusted to them for basic research.

[CheshireTheCat]

A lot heads need to roll.

[FreedomPoster]

Here’s an article on the general topic I’ve been posting:

Why the CDC botched its coronavirus testing
The first testing kits from the Centers for Disease Control had a simple fault, and red tape prevented other labs from creating their own.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615323/why-the-cdc-botched-its-coronavirus-testing/

That’s the MIT Technology Review.

[tbw2]

Impeachment was a distraction, too.

[Herakles]

I have a theory that if u cut 90% of government in DC the overall effect would be it could do the same job more efficiently.