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CDC’s lackluster response is absolutely confounding. One could suspect political involvement, but I can’t see who would stand to benefit.
by marvin 7y ago
CDC’s lackluster response is absolutely confounding. One could suspect political involvement, but I can’t see who would stand to benefit.
- kickopotomus 7y agoThe market and the current administration both benefit from a low count of confirmed cases. The administration has already been criticized for repeatedly attempting to slash the CDC budget[1] and terminating the epidemic response team[2]. Trump also keeps attempting to downplay the severity of the virus so it would not be a good look if the true spread of the disease was widely known. Knowledge of the spread would also probably trigger more panic selling in the markets which the current administration also tries to avoid as much as possible. [1]: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democr... [2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/05/10/top-white-house-official-in-charge-of-pandemic-response-exits-abruptly/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...
- marvin 7y agoThat just doesn’t make sense to me. Uncontained, this disease will grow exponentially until tens of millions are infected at once, and it eventually burns itself out. But by then, the disaster will be obvious and we will have the same result. Only with more casualties. Certainly anyone who had that sort of ulterior motive would understand this.
- jpindar 7y agoMaking sense is not a priority for this administration.
- hedora 7y agoI predict Trump administration will underreport the numbers and use the courts to hold up transparency reports and audits until after the election. They’re already refusing to test people, and I’m guessing they’ll start to blame the flu and/or fake news at some point. They’ll probably somehow exceed my expectations, and come up with even more cynical tactics than this. For instance, I’ve seen users in other forums blame liberal china lovers for bringing the disease to the US. I wonder if they’re paid trolls or not.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoWasn't the CDC budget cut drastically by the current administration? You reap what you sow.
- rstupek 7y agoWell Congress is the ones who actually pass the budget so no?
- barney54 7y agoNo, the budget was not cut.
- creaghpatr 7y agoNope this was misinformation sowed for political purposes: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104 https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
- davidw 7y agoThe budget proposal included cuts to it, though, and some of the response teams that were in place in the government were cut. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
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- creaghpatr 7y agoAnd yet that's not what you insinuated. There were no cuts no matter how you characterize it-your source confirms that. Certainly no "reaping" what was "sowed".
- davidw 7y agoYou're responding to me, not the author of the 'reaping' comment.
- lurquer 7y agoWhy would you have any confidence with CDC? Go browse through the weekly bulletins from 2003 regarding the SARS 'epidemic' in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5218a2.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5218a2.htm You'll read of the hundreds of 'confirmed' and 'probsble' cases and dire warnings and the like. Then, when the dust settles and years pass, the CDC reluctantly admits the following: ------ In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world where SARS was spreading. SARS did not spread more widely in the community in the United States. https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html#outbreak https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html#outbreak ----