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It certainly is not helping Vice President Mike Pence is requiring government health officials and scientists at CDC to coordinate all public health information

It certainly is not helping Vice President Mike Pence is requiring government health officials and scientists at CDC to coordinate all public health information through him for vetting and possibly censoring. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronaviru...

lliamander 7y ago
"We should clamp down on the spread of misinformation!" ... "Oh no, we're being censored!"
- davidw 7y ago
  Scientists and experts - the competent career people in any admin - should be speaking freely and directly, not running their communications through Mike Pence/politicians.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    To see Dr. Fauci standing next to Trump and saying he's not being muzzled, then describing a textbook case of what muzzling would be. Cringeworthy.
  - Consultant32452 7y ago
    Competent career people say stupid things like don't buy up all the masks because we'll run out if you do. The population's obvious reaction was to buy all the masks. People like that, who are objective/scientific/facts minded should be kept mostly out of the spotlight, not allowed to speak off a script approved by someone who understands psychology, economics, and politics.
  - admiral33 7y ago
    That's exactly what OP's sarcasm is implying.
    - lliamander 7y ago
      This ^ EDIT: Or, in a perhaps more nuanced approach, is that there is a natural tension between the desire to control messaging in order to prevent a panic, and the need to relevant information out to people as quickly as possible.
      - admiral33 7y ago
        That tension is addressed in the Bill of Rights. And personally the first amendment is something that I believe every US citizen should individually accept responsibility for.
  - blackflame7000 7y ago
    One issue is that if you ask 10 experts with egos you might end up with 10 different opinions. It's not helpful to the public to hear contradictory opinions from the same administration because then how do they know what to believe. Making sure people are on the same page isn't necessarily for the purpose of nefarious censorship.
dylan604 7y ago
are we going to have a rouge-CDC twitter feed come about like rouge-NASA or have the clamps already been applied tight enough to prevent that?
9HZZRfNlpR 7y ago
Seriously what is wrong with you, Americans? Your bipartisan political fundamentalism is stronger than religion, people just have to draw snark comments about either party or president. Can't you be reasonable for even once when there are crisis going on? It's just pure insanity.
alkibiades 7y ago
yes that’s so you have consistent messaging. same reason you can’t have some new hire engineers be the spokesperson for Google. trump derangement system at its finest

lliamander 7y ago

"We should clamp down on the spread of misinformation!" ... "Oh no, we're being censored!"

davidw 7y ago
Scientists and experts - the competent career people in any admin - should be speaking freely and directly, not running their communications through Mike Pence/politicians.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  To see Dr. Fauci standing next to Trump and saying he's not being muzzled, then describing a textbook case of what muzzling would be. Cringeworthy.
- Consultant32452 7y ago
  Competent career people say stupid things like don't buy up all the masks because we'll run out if you do. The population's obvious reaction was to buy all the masks. People like that, who are objective/scientific/facts minded should be kept mostly out of the spotlight, not allowed to speak off a script approved by someone who understands psychology, economics, and politics.
- admiral33 7y ago
  That's exactly what OP's sarcasm is implying.
  - lliamander 7y ago
    This ^ EDIT: Or, in a perhaps more nuanced approach, is that there is a natural tension between the desire to control messaging in order to prevent a panic, and the need to relevant information out to people as quickly as possible.
    - admiral33 7y ago
      That tension is addressed in the Bill of Rights. And personally the first amendment is something that I believe every US citizen should individually accept responsibility for.
- blackflame7000 7y ago
  One issue is that if you ask 10 experts with egos you might end up with 10 different opinions. It's not helpful to the public to hear contradictory opinions from the same administration because then how do they know what to believe. Making sure people are on the same page isn't necessarily for the purpose of nefarious censorship.

dylan604 7y ago

are we going to have a rouge-CDC twitter feed come about like rouge-NASA or have the clamps already been applied tight enough to prevent that?

9HZZRfNlpR 7y ago

Seriously what is wrong with you, Americans? Your bipartisan political fundamentalism is stronger than religion, people just have to draw snark comments about either party or president. Can't you be reasonable for even once when there are crisis going on? It's just pure insanity.

alkibiades 7y ago

yes that’s so you have consistent messaging. same reason you can’t have some new hire engineers be the spokesperson for Google. trump derangement system at its finest