Posted on 04/19/2020 4:47:00 AM PDT by rintintin
CDC really fu&&*ed up.
Budget cuts and layoffs are needed.
Why is all of the US dependent on one lab? We need some back up. We needed an alternative.
And if they can’t even keep their own labs sterile...
Wanna keep the public sector eggheads, fine.
But then make them duel it out with the private sector's eggheads.
And may the best brainiacs and, more importantly, the taxpayers win.
The CDC has been politicized by the Left for decades.
A prime objective of the CDC has been to push gun control.
Move the CDC to Nebraska where they have the bio containment hospital and leave the incompetents behind.
NYT tried to debunk “we inherited a broken system” and came up short
“Why is all of the US dependent on one lab? We need some back up. We needed an alternative.”
Yeah.
It’s one lab that wastes a lot of time on gun-control and global warming.
In other words, Trump”s fault.
I wish Trump would call out the CDC. So far he’s been way too supportive of the health bureaucracies, even though they didn’t protect us from the Chinese virus. Birx and Fauci are in the middle of those bureaucracies, and he still has them right by his side, even though they told us 2.5 million would die
What have you got against Nebraska?
If they are going to screw-up and let some plague escape from their labs I’d rather it be in D.C. than in Omaha.
Let it loose in DC and the pols will do what they did this time: Run away.
Fricking cowards.
The result of diversity and affirmative action.
First gen testing.. I tried to tell folks.. but they just want a test now.. whether it is accurate or not. It will be a couple of years before a truly accurate test is available without interfering substance with acceptable sensitivities and specificities. .
They need to hire more ‘experts’.
I was surprised they investigated and published this story. It was a rare moment of journalism instead of agitprop.
“He found an astonishing lack of expertise in commercial manufacturing and learned that nobody was in charge of the entire process, they said.”
In other words is the usual FedGov f******.
When this thing is over fully 80% of it needs to be gutted like a fish.
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Yup. My grandfather used to manage a county government agency. He used to have to staff it with political hacks and Affirmative Action hires. Trying to get actual work done caused him to pull out what was left of his hair.
“This is Ward Chairman Wisnewski’s drunken brother-in-law. He works for you now.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/science/cdc-closes-anthrax-and-flu-labs-after-accidents.html
C.D.C. Closes Anthrax and Flu Labs After Accidents
By Donald G. McNeil Jr.
July 11, 2014
After potentially serious back-to-back laboratory accidents, federal health officials announced Friday that they had temporarily closed the flu and anthrax laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and halted shipments of all infectious agents from the agency’s highest-security labs.
The accidents, and the C.D.C.’s emphatic response to them, could have important consequences for the many laboratories that store high-risk agents and the few that, even more controversially, specialize in making them more dangerous for research purposes.
If the C.D.C. — which the agency’s director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, called “the reference laboratory to the world” — had multiple accidents that could, in theory, have killed both staff members and people outside, there will undoubtedly be calls for stricter controls on other university, military and private laboratories.
In one episode last month, at least 62 C.D.C. employees may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after potentially infectious samples were sent to laboratories unequipped to handle them. Employees not wearing protective gear worked with bacteria that were supposed to have been killed but may not have been. All were offered a vaccine and antibiotics, and the agency said it believed no one was in danger.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/01/04/cdc-secret-lab-incidents-select-agents/95972126/
CDC keeps secret its mishaps with deadly germs
Jan. 4, 2017
[Incidents at labs in Atlanta and Fort Collins, Colo., 2013 - early 2015.]
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