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The same FDA which made it all-but-impossible to test for SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020? I'd believe it. https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1232075455295037440

The same FDA which made it all-but-impossible to test for SARS-CoV-2 in early 2020? I'd believe it. https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1232075455295037440 https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1232075455295037440

encryptluks2 4y ago
- wutbrodo 4y ago
  I'd posit that certain lobes were already shut off if you're unable to read a thread by the then-Commissioner of the FDA because it happens to be on Twitter. It's the 2020s, agency heads make official statements on Twitter all the time.
  - encryptluks2 4y ago
    And so do QAnon followers.
    - wutbrodo 4y ago
      The thread we're talking about is the former: the head of the FDA announcing policy via his Twitter account. How is it remotely relevant that other Twitter accounts are nutty? If somebody shared a clip of the President making a policy announcement on TV, would you deem it false based on the fact that "Alex Jones uses the TV to get his message out too". Do you truly not understand how insane that is?
      - encryptluks2 4y ago
        Twitter isn't like Television. If someone shared a video from infowars website then yes I'd deem the information most likely bullshit. If they told me to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News then it would be the same.
FireBeyond 4y ago
- natch 4y ago
  Similar to yourself on HN. You were asked for a source for a vicious rumor you were spreading and… crickets.
- wutbrodo 4y ago
  What on earth are you talking about... He's interpreting a thread that he is quote-tweeting. The thread is from _the then-Commissioner of the FDA_. If you think Eddie's description is wrong, you can read the thread he's describing!
dnissley 4y ago
Kind of startling that people didn't hear about this and are doubting the veracity of the claims... I thought this story was well known by now. https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-...
- s1artibartfast 4y ago
  I thought this was common knowledge and a common complaint a cross the political spectrum.
oezi 4y ago
My understanding was that this was primarily due to the CDC not the FDA. The test the CDC developed was defective yet they mandated it.

encryptluks2 4y ago

wutbrodo 4y ago
I'd posit that certain lobes were already shut off if you're unable to read a thread by the then-Commissioner of the FDA because it happens to be on Twitter. It's the 2020s, agency heads make official statements on Twitter all the time.
- encryptluks2 4y ago
  And so do QAnon followers.
  - wutbrodo 4y ago
    The thread we're talking about is the former: the head of the FDA announcing policy via his Twitter account. How is it remotely relevant that other Twitter accounts are nutty? If somebody shared a clip of the President making a policy announcement on TV, would you deem it false based on the fact that "Alex Jones uses the TV to get his message out too". Do you truly not understand how insane that is?
    - encryptluks2 4y ago
      Twitter isn't like Television. If someone shared a video from infowars website then yes I'd deem the information most likely bullshit. If they told me to watch Tucker Carlson on Fox News then it would be the same.

FireBeyond 4y ago

natch 4y ago
Similar to yourself on HN. You were asked for a source for a vicious rumor you were spreading and… crickets.
wutbrodo 4y ago
What on earth are you talking about... He's interpreting a thread that he is quote-tweeting. The thread is from _the then-Commissioner of the FDA_. If you think Eddie's description is wrong, you can read the thread he's describing!

dnissley 4y ago

Kind of startling that people didn't hear about this and are doubting the veracity of the claims... I thought this story was well known by now. https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-bungled-coronavirus-testing-things-may-soon-improve https://www.science.org/content/article/united-states-badly-...

s1artibartfast 4y ago
I thought this was common knowledge and a common complaint a cross the political spectrum.

oezi 4y ago

My understanding was that this was primarily due to the CDC not the FDA. The test the CDC developed was defective yet they mandated it.