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This is not an accident. It’s the system working as designed. Steve Bannon famously described his agenda as the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” It
by mcculley 6y ago
This is not an accident. It’s the system working as designed. Steve Bannon famously described his agenda as the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” It’s pointless to argue about the chicken or the egg of how the CDC became crippled. The administration does not want it to succeed.
- m0zg 6y agoDoes the _CDC itself_ want to succeed? People _without a budget_ have done a much better job collecting and publishing data on github. Why is this so insurmountable for the CDC? I'd ideally have a single source of information. I'd prefer that source to be the CDC. But they somehow, 4 months in (!), choose to publish a pile of steaming excrement instead of clean, curated, well explained data.
- SrslyJosh 6y agoI haven't looked at any of their data. I do recall seeing criticism, and I'm not gonna defend any agency headed by someone that Trump picked. My point is, I don't think Birx's comment was meant to be helpful or even constructively critical.
- mcculley 6y agoI'm not defending the CDC. I am astounded at how poorly cities and counties record and report their own data and depend on the CDC. I want to see more decentralized recording and reporting. I have no idea how political things are at the CDC. Many there claim that they have had their budgets cut below workable levels. That's entirely consistent with the stated purpose of the current administration. We should get used to not having anything useful at the federal level.
- SrslyJosh 6y ago> We should get used to not having anything useful at the federal level. Snow Crash, here we come.