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If only the CDC would stick to work on communicable diseases
by blnqr 6y ago
If only the CDC would stick to work on communicable diseases
- dan-robertson 6y agoTheir mandate changed. They are not the centre for disease control and prevention and they act in accordance with their mandate as a public health agency
- blnqr 6y agoYes, I know. I have friends there who are fantastic, smart, committed civil servants working within their mandate and structure. I have a Master's in Public Policy from the Kennedy School, I'm not anti-government. But mission creep has hurt the CDC more than helped the nation. Public health is far too big a remit for any one agency.
- Naracion 6y agoI know this is a typo, but it reverses the meaning so clarifying for future readers in case it's confusing: They are _now_ the centre for disease control and prevention
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoI'm confused I've never heard of it getting involved in anything else. What do you mean?
- Broken_Hippo 6y agoWell, don't they do other things that involve health? Like drinking guidelines and dietary guidelines and cancer research/information and things of that sort? Still well within the realm of health and certainly affects communicable diseases (an unhealthy population is more prone to worse effects of disease).
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- mhb 6y agoGuns: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/firearms/fastfact.htm...
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoI would tend to agree that they have no place talking about guns.
- js2 6y agoCollecting gun-related injury and fatality data allows us to make evidence-based informed decisions about what types of legislation are likely to be effective to reduce harm. For example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/the-3-gun-control-laws-that-work-best-in-the-u-s https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/the-3-gun...
- mhb 6y agoAnd that has nothing to do with Disease Control and is a clear demonstration of mission creep. The CDC has recently displayed its incompetence regarding its core function. Maybe it should master that before addressing other issues of society which are, at best, only tenuously in its purview.
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoDid they ask for this work or was it thrust on them because of political football?
- mhb 6y agoYou have many questions. At first it seemed as if you were curious about what other aspects the CDC had delved into. Now it looks like you are pursuing some agenda. The basic questions can be answered with a bit of research. Here are some more to ponder. Or maybe these are what you are getting at. What was the CDC's original mission? Did it execute it competently? Why is it now involved in areas other than communicable diseases? Do people in organizations seek to increase their power and influence? Do they do this by enlarging the scope of their organizations' missions? How is this notionally science-based entity being influenced by other factors?
- Broken_Hippo 6y agoWhy? What do they do that you oppose?
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoPublic health is precariously close to politics in a lot of cases and it casts shade on their mundane and universally appreciated work on topics more directly related to disease. That said, it'd kind of inevitable that they run a course like that because constantly doing good non-controversial work banks political capital and the politicians are gonna try to harness organizations like that for their own ends.
- Broken_Hippo 6y agoSo, because some folks make it political, we shouldn't get facts about things like the HPV vaccine or the effects of birth control methods? How, exactly, are folks (who are not versed in medicine) supposed to get this information from a trusted source?