The real problem is the nanny state approach that gates all innovation. If thousands die because you're too slow, it's considered just a mistake, not a fundamen

The real problem is the nanny state approach that gates all innovation. If thousands die because you're too slow, it's considered just a mistake, not a fundamental policy error. Leave your people be. Set up an 'accredited investor' model, if you must gate survival to the resourceful, for non-contaminating drug use and human self-experimentation. Release intelligent people from your prison of so-called safety. When you centralize response, you open yourself to takeover errors. No different from Mao advising you to make iron in your backyards is a bunch of error-prone individuals forcing you to not make your own tests. "Let us take care of it. You really can't" they say as they botch the job. Again. Let those who want your slow responses have your slow responses. Stick your labels on your drugs. For the rest of us, leave us be to build the things we will build better than you. People will argue the trivial problem. They'll blame it on the President and his administration. But the CDC did not meaningfully change policy (though they did lose their pandemic response team - whoops). Nor did the FDA. The President's incompetence is a today problem, the CDC's is forever.