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Clearly it was the CDC at fault here, not a few hand picked bureaucrats, not the chain of command, not a president with a penchant for firing people who challen
by manicdee 6y ago
Clearly it was the CDC at fault here, not a few hand picked bureaucrats, not the chain of command, not a president with a penchant for firing people who challenge his authority.
What a poorly concocted article. The least the author could do so remind people of the “starve the beast” approach to public utilities that the Republicans have been pursuing for decades.
Nope, we’ll just throw the entire CDC under a bus.
- j4yav 6y agoFor what it's worth, and despite the title, when I read this article the message I took away is exactly the one you are describing.
- dmix 6y agoIt is Buzzfeed after all.
- andreareina 6y agoI've found the Buzzfeed content that makes it on here to be pretty good. Which is weird, it is Buzzfeed after all. I don't think it's just the HN selection effect, as P(liked|Buzzfeed) > P(liked|HN).
- rootusrootus 6y agoBuzzfeedNews in particular makes a regular appearance because it is a world-class journalism organization. It does not seem to share much with Buzzfeed.
- paul7986 6y agoYeah more crappy for profit media spreading outrage. The news/media is always negative ...tired of it and tuned it out/enjoying life without it!
- unityByFreedom 6y agoAgreed, we’ve all watched the president say all the wrong things at the wrong times during this episode. I don’t doubt he is pulling the wrong strings behind the scenes too.
- gipp 6y agoThere's this strange phenomenon on HN sometimes -- or at least I've noticed it here several times -- where people will somehow manage to condemn the article while arguing for exactly the thesis of the article. That's what you're doing here.
- StavrosK 6y agoThat's what happens when people don't actually read the article before they comment.
- watwut 6y agoGiven that a lot of people dont read articles and go straight to comments, comments that challenge title are valuable if the title is at odds with article content.
- mschuetz 6y agoI literally can't read most articles due do adblock blocker or because they block european visitors.
- Amezarak 6y agoIt’s a culture problem throughout fedgov, not so much a funding problem. The DoD is also a huge mess, despite having plenty (most people would argue too much) funding. Take a look at something like the Afghanistan papers. Decision-making at every level and internal politics impacting competency are massive problems. Changing Presidents can’t fix this, because it’s a slow-motion problem going on for decades, and Presidents actually have very little power over what actually goes on in these agencies internally - that’s what the contemporary complaints about the so-called “deep state” are about: most agencies are in practice virtually independent from the White House, and will simply sandbag or defy any direction from the White House or appointees they aren’t interested in following. These people are experts in exploiting bureaucracy to achieve their aims, which are dominated by personal politics and career advancement. I used to say exactly what you’re saying, but now having seen how it all works firsthand, I am afraid the problem is intractable without major Congressional overhaul of the entire executive branch, including mass layoffs to get out the problems, before we increase funding to any agency. And I don’t think Congress is ever going to do this. Additionally, at least according to Forbes, the CDC employs more people now than ever, having increased headcount by 25% since 2007, when it was already at an all-time high. (The article also complains about comp, but I personally don’t think it’s too high.) https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/02/29/10600-cdc-employees-earn-11-billion-annually/#3af694c24da3 https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2020/02/29/106...