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According to this reddit post the CDC won't even test you unless you're so sick that you need hospitalization even if you were in a country with an outbreak AND

According to this reddit post the CDC won't even test you unless you're so sick that you need hospitalization even if you were in a country with an outbreak AND have flu symptoms: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_story_brooklyn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor... So it seems what the CDC is doing is trying to minimize the number of confirmed cases to make things look better.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
China: Suppress the disclosure of damaging facts. USA: Suppress the creation of damaging facts.
- brewdad 7y ago
  USA: Lower interest rates and the corporate tax rates to save the stock market. Pretend coronavirus is fake news.
- blackrock 7y ago
  USA: Promote Alternative Facts
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electriclove 7y ago
Meanwhile, Hong Kong is able to test dogs (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-test-no-sign-animals-can-be-infected-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-tes...) and Singapore is able to provide detailed updates to the public (https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cases-discharged-three-new-cases-of-covid-19-infection-confirmed https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cas...)
tuna-piano 7y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. During Ebola, there were only a few concurrent (maybe just 1) cases of Ebola in the country. At the same time as the CDC was having news conferences and the CDC experts were presumably in meetings, the handful of nurses doing the actual care for one of the only ebola patients in the country were left completely alone by the CDC: "After days of asking, Pham said, the nurses were given hazmat suits. She said all the decisions to upgrade the protective gear and precautions were made by the nurses “on the fly.” Sadly, one of the nurses caught Ebola. http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/
- addicted 7y ago
  Except the government learned from the Ebola outbreak, improved its response and setup infrastructure to handle future such scenarios based on their learning. The current administration dismantled that entire infrastructure. So while it may not have been malice, there is a very straight line to be drawn from the actions of a couple of years ago and the inept handling of the situation today.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago

China: Suppress the disclosure of damaging facts. USA: Suppress the creation of damaging facts.

brewdad 7y ago
USA: Lower interest rates and the corporate tax rates to save the stock market. Pretend coronavirus is fake news.
blackrock 7y ago
USA: Promote Alternative Facts

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electriclove 7y ago

Meanwhile, Hong Kong is able to test dogs (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-test-no-sign-animals-can-be-infected-2020-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-dog-isolated-tes...) and Singapore is able to provide detailed updates to the public (https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cases-discharged-three-new-cases-of-covid-19-infection-confirmed https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/four-more-cas...)

tuna-piano 7y ago

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. The CDC has seemed relatively dysfunctional in these outbreaks to me before. During Ebola, there were only a few concurrent (maybe just 1) cases of Ebola in the country. At the same time as the CDC was having news conferences and the CDC experts were presumably in meetings, the handful of nurses doing the actual care for one of the only ebola patients in the country were left completely alone by the CDC: "After days of asking, Pham said, the nurses were given hazmat suits. She said all the decisions to upgrade the protective gear and precautions were made by the nurses “on the fly.” Sadly, one of the nurses caught Ebola. http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/ http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/nina-pham/

addicted 7y ago
Except the government learned from the Ebola outbreak, improved its response and setup infrastructure to handle future such scenarios based on their learning. The current administration dismantled that entire infrastructure. So while it may not have been malice, there is a very straight line to be drawn from the actions of a couple of years ago and the inept handling of the situation today.