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Among the eye-opening deficiencies across our efforts to contain the disease, the most stupefying is the the inability to conduct adequate testing. It would app
by bart_spoon 7y ago
Among the eye-opening deficiencies across our efforts to contain the disease, the most stupefying is the the inability to conduct adequate testing. It would appear there is a variety of factors at play, including red tape, bureaucracy, logistical failure, and incompetent decision making. But it really has been shocking at how utterly disastrous this aspect of the response has been. Especially so given that the entity appearing deserving most of the blame for this particular problem is the CDC, which I think many of us considered unimpeachable up until now.
It's striking how the hubris and organizational failure in the decision making process developing these tests seems to mimic some of the fiascos that occur in the tech industry, though in hindsight I don't know why any large organization wouldn't be susceptible.
- HumblyTossed 7y agoThe White House wouldn't let the WHO tests be used. They also delayed allowing new tests to be developed. I'm sure the CDC is to blame for some of this, but the WH is more so.
- jfnixon 7y agoCite, please. The FDA and CDC bureaucracies are the groups hewing to the Business As Usual rule following. No need for the WH to reject WHO tests, the FDA is happy to fill that role. The WH is ultimately responsible for the FDA/CDC, but if the Cabinet level needs to intervene to get the massive Federal government acting with urgency to this sort of threat, we should eliminate Civil Service protections and give Agency heads a bigger stick pour encourager les autres.