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The pandemic really exposed the complete lack of cost-benefit analysis. The FDA and CDC prevented the country from properly monitoring COVID early, which contri
by civilized 5y ago
The pandemic really exposed the complete lack of cost-benefit analysis. The FDA and CDC prevented the country from properly monitoring COVID early, which contributed to the chaos of early 2020. It was worse than it would have been without these agencies.
- aaxe 5y agoUhhh - that was because of the people at the top, not the employees there. Hell, the USPS was going to mail everyone masks but someone nixxed that idea.
- civilized 5y agoSorry, I just don't see any evidence that Trump political officials, however awfully they handled everything, caused the FDA and CDC to keep everyone from doing disease surveillance. Those agencies' career officials made a plan of their own accord and botched it horribly. The NYT documented it meticulously and even they couldn't find a finger to point at Trump's people. Better leadership at the top might have scuttled that insanely awful plan, but the insanely awful plan was 100% the creation of FDA and CDC career bureaucrats. Everyone assumed they knew what they were doing, including Trump's people, but they didn't. At all.
- redis_mlc 5y ago[dead]