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This administration sticking their heads in the sand and the CDC also either not being prepared or executing their prep horrendously.

• smacktoward 7y ago
  It's actually worse than the administration just sticking their heads in the sand. The President has made multiple public statements where he's said his main objective in this is to keep the number of reported cases as low as possible. Every bureaucrat in the system is going to know exactly what that means: extensive testing will only surface more cases, so anyone who pushes for more testing will be performing what I heard described when I worked for the Air Force as "a career-limiting manuever." A head-in-the-sand approach would at least be neutral. The administration has gone beyond that to actively putting a thumb on the scale. (Ironically, this is the same type of "nobody ever prospered by upsetting The Boss" problem that lots of people were dunking on China for having a few weeks ago. The degree to which our supposedly open system has become vulnerable to it too should give us all a moment of pause.)
  • pbourke 7y ago
    He did a literal "just the flu" tweet yesterday ...