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And they wonder why silly conspiracy theories gain traction in the public? Honestly this is the dumbest thing to do in secret. The CDC was supposed to be apol

And they wonder why silly conspiracy theories gain traction in the public? Honestly this is the dumbest thing to do in secret. The CDC was supposed to be apolitical and gave that up entirely during the pandemic, and now it appears they are quite horrible at politics.

triceratops 4y ago
> The CDC was supposed to be apolitical and gave that up entirely during the pandemic If the politicians politicize a pandemic, and the CDC's job is to fight disease, then anything the CDC does becomes political by definition. Seems like that's on the politicians.
renewiltord 4y ago
It wasn't a secret. It's literally on their website with the sources listed. What exactly is secret. The dashboard they have lists the source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#mobility https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#mobility Ctrl-F "the mobility metrics are"
- shawn-butler 4y ago
  Did you even read the article? They made a FOIA request and got the procurement documents which lists use cases such as "Examination of the effectiveness of public policy on [the] Navajo Nation" and monitoring "places of worship" both of which have extremely negative connotations. This sort of dataset gets used in all kinds of twisted ways that aren't limited to footnotes on cute graphs.
  - renewiltord 4y ago
    This is the problem with you Wikipedia Wise Men. The only knowledge you have is what you were told about. Your position is literally just the last “article” you read. All this shit is either in MMWRs or on preprint sites. It’s not “secret” beyond the basic fact that lots of hypotheses are studied constantly. Here’s an example https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.02.20234989v1.full https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.02.20234989v...