Posted on 03/17/2020 4:06:47 PM PDT by upchuck
I think I’m where most sane people are on the coronavirus outbreak:
–Concerned but not panicked.
–Calm but not apathetic.
–Taking reasonable precautions but remaining skeptical of what all the purportedly “best experts” here in the United States are telling us about every aspect of their belated crisis management and response (especially on their pimping of vaccine development to prevent the disease).
Here are some plain, nonhysterical facts: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is a bloated federal government agency with a long history of incompetence, fraud, secrecy, mission creep and shady alliances with both social justice causes on the left and private corporations on the big business right. The “deep state” of entrenched bureaucrats embedded in the Beltway bowels is alive and thriving at the CDC. The unelected elites who’ve occupied top offices at the public health-industrial complex are hostile to public scrutiny while clamoring for ever-ballooning budgets. Their recommendations have often been detrimental to citizens’ well-being and freedom.
And, yes, many of the scientists who work there are rabidly anti-conservative and anti-Trump.
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Good to hear from a great lady.
and brilliant as well.
Listen up!
I have messaged Trump that CDC needs a major makeover after the dust settles on this mess. I have not heard back from yet.
CDCs response to this epidemic flatly sucks.
Great research by Michelle Malkin. Thanks for posting.
The CDC is way overdue for an overhaul. Maybe that will be a happy outcome of this current crisis.
To illustrate the point of how worthless cdc is, ever see any of their people at a task force press conference? I have not.
Informed diagnosis: The “best people” — who have now been rewarded with more than $8.3 billion in new “emergency funding” — are not in charge.
Good on ya’, Michelle. Also, the CDC just f’d up the Wuhan Chinese coronavirus test kits & processes, and the private sector, thanks to Donaldus Magnus’ leadership, has stepped in to pull their fat out of the fire.
My Lefty brother, a lifelong Federal employee, hates PDJT with a white hot passion, and believes it’s “cuts” to the CDC and NSC that have caused all the problems. Just so irrational.
It’s a Gov. agency....complacent or complicit?
FReeper monkeyshine made a great post that I think nails it regarding teh CDC and FedGov bureaucracies involved here:
But the real problem lies in the alphabet soup of turf - the CDC, the HHS, the FDA etc etc.
How is it that we spend tens of billions of dollars every year to HHS and CDC, and not one person in charge ever made the decision to fill a couple of warehouses with latex gloves, masks, medications, modular quarantine pop-up tents and the like? Instead, they squandered the money analyzing how shrimp react to a treadmill or how teenage sexual dysphoria might reflect on weight gain or loss?
These federal agencies are filled with technocrats and bureaucrats who are career employees. They are supposed to do their jobs regardless of which person occupies the Oval Office. But it seems to me they did not do their jobs at all, they did not prepare, they did not develop contingency plans, they did not equip for various contingencies. They must be held accountable for this when we’re on the other side.
After the H1N1 Swine Flu of 2009, out of fear of “not doing something”, they created a whole host of counter-productive regulations. Just so they can say they did something. But it was thoughtless. They stripped the power of the states from being able to run their own epidemiological labs. They mandated the types of equipment that must be used, where they can be used, what re-agent types to use, and what disease markers to look for. As a result, state tests were invalid, and the private sector which is more than well equipped to test for the disease using various markers and reagents were using much more novel, advanced and modern techniques that did not conform with the FDA regs. So, instead of letting the market open wide with testing facilities, they actually made it extremely difficult to run tests. The public and private sector is and has been ready to test for COVID19, but the FDA wouldn’t allow them because they were not using the pre-approved tools and equipment.
It is hard to imagine that such a thing wasn’t deliberately nefarious - but most likely these were simple not very bright people who wanted to look like they were “doing something” when all they really did was make it impossible to do anything at all.
One freeper aptly named them “Coronavirus Distribution Center”.
The CDC was too worried about guns and vaping devices that instead of diseases
I guess EVERY medical system in the world is just the same...they’re ALL reacting the same way.
But this mass closing does not make any sense to me....
If AMC theaters has theaters in Montana and Wyoming why close them there one case
Why not close the bar and keep the restaurant open,,even if you only allow 75 % in or fifty percent
And part of what tells me that Michelle is completely off-base here, is this line: They squander untold millions on other health threats in favor of pushing gun control
Patently false. Not only are they restricted by law from same, but -- based largely in Atlanta, in a very gun-friendly state, you'd be amazed at the number of pro-second-amendment people that are in there.
Here's a little personal story: During the Obama years, the CDC was ILLEGALLY ordered to produce a gun study. Welp. Obama got his study. It was utterly useless to his agenda. It asserted that defensive uses of guns -- including mere display -- way outweighed the criminal uses of guns.
Well howdy, howdy, howdy.
So, like 5 months later, there was an event that allowed line-level CDC people to meet the Director of the CDC, Tom Friedan. You may remember that Friedan was in a bit of trouble at that time for a lab seal failure.
So I go up to him, introduce myself, and mention, "Yeah man, sucks what with what you are going through right now. I feel for ya."
He shakes his head a little, like he's tired, and thanks me for my support. Then I say, "Dr. Friedan, you know that recent gun study you sent the White House? Well, I'm an NRA-guy, pro-second-amendment, and I thank you for keeping the 'desired' political slant out of it, and just presenting facts."
He looks at me, gives me a broad smile, and replies, "Well, I am a man of science, first."
I kinda dug that.
Yup, I am with her. At least this posted part.
Good post, Laz.
I will say I have to wonder why there isn’t a Strategic Medical Gear Reserve for this, PPE, easily deployable field hospitals, etc. And maybe there is, maybe it’s the military. It just seemed to me that with all those FedGov $billions, there’s be more of that.
I agree. I am sure the CDC is packed with full-time never-Trumpers.
Still, I'd have expected the CDC to do a little better on stockpiling. Bet you they will after this.
At least you are consistently an ahole
What did I say that you disagree with and what is your counter argument?
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