How Excessive Regulation Helped Ignite COVID-19’s Rampant Spread

Leapsmag.com ^ | March 31, 2029 | Susan Kreimer

[House Atreides]

When historians of the future look back at the 2020 pandemic, the heroic work of Helen Y. Chu, a flu researcher at the University of Washington, will be worthy of recognition.

In late January, Chu was testing nasal swabs for the Seattle Flu Study to monitor influenza spread when she learned of the first case of COVID-19 in Washington state. She deemed it a pressing public health matter to document if and how the illness was spreading locally, so that early containment efforts could succeed. So she sought regulatory approval to adapt the Flu Study to test for the coronavirus, but the federal government denied the request because the original project was funded to study only influenza.

Aware of the urgency, Chu’s team bravely defied the order and conducted the testing anyway. Soon they identified a local case in a teenager without any travel history, followed by others. Still, the government tried to shutter their efforts until the outbreak grew dangerous enough to command attention.

[House Atreides]

I strongly recommend going to the linked article. It’s only a 5 minute read but has LOTS of good information pointing out mistakes our CDC & FDA bureaucracies made early on. Mistakes that we want to NEVER allow them to make again.

[Uncle Miltie]

Great article.

Read it all.

Spread widely: shows how Big Government f-ed the whole country, killing thousands (and counting).

[txrefugee]

Don’t expect to see this enlightening account in the Democrat media. They are feverishly promoting the Democrat bureaucrats at the CDC, Birx and Fauci, as the heroes in the saga, fighting the President every step of the way as they saved America. Big Government is the answer to every problem in their world.

[nuconvert]

COVID-19 should be viewed as a dress rehearsal in order to learn from mistakes to makes responses better in future epidemics.

[j.argese]

For. Thee. Love. Of. F*ck. Can’t we just dangle legalized drugs and promises there will be no increase in taxes at the edge of precipice and watch the Libertarians run over the edge?

[BobL]

“Still, the government tried to shutter their efforts until the outbreak grew dangerous enough to command attention.”

So, what makes us better than what China was doing with Wuhan in the early days?

[Wuli]

CDC - part of the “medical” wing of the deep state