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> FDA regulation only allowed the CDC to create a test wondering why this regulation exists and are there any guidelines for extreme situations.
by dominotw 7y ago
> FDA regulation only allowed the CDC to create a test
wondering why this regulation exists and are there any guidelines for extreme situations.
- brightball 7y agoI imagine it’s the same guidelines for most centralized regulations. People who believe that central control is good. Which is a much larger discussion.
- jschwartzi 7y agoI can tell you that in normal times the FDA does prevent a good amount of injuries and deaths simply by being a chilling force for medical device manufacturers. It's not a matter of religious fervor to sometimes prevent the marketing of something because it can potentially be harmful.
- MikeAmelung 7y agoWell, you get somebody out here going "Hey, we've got great tests for this, the best." and a bunch of people who are about to drink aquarium chemicals take the test, get a negative result because the test doesn't work, and now you've got a bunch of morons running around infecting everyone else. The testing shortage is a grand fuck-up, to be sure. But it's not as bad as waiting to tell everyone to stop congregating and start washing their hands more.
- pdonis 7y ago> it's not as bad as waiting to tell everyone to stop congregating and start washing their hands more People should have already been doing this themselves from basic common sense. You shouldn't need the government to tell you to take obvious precautions.
- munk-a 7y agoWell, in extreme situations the best thing to do isn't to fire the pandemic response team three years prior cause "never gonna happen". Those regulations (and most bureaucracy to be honest) is to provide guidance and constraint during normal times - these are extreme times and it's perfectly rationale to restrict burdensome regulations that hurt the public good right now.