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The very first line: "Democrats vigorously defended the public health bureaucracy when Republicans sought to tear it down during the pandemic" .. Implying that
by h2odragon 2y ago
The very first line: "Democrats vigorously defended the public health bureaucracy when Republicans sought to tear it down during the pandemic"
.. Implying that no one was attempting to correct errors in process (because no errors were being made), and this was a fight to protect Respected Institutions from being torn down by conservative politicians.
...and the media wonders why they've lost trust of their readers.
- Arnt 2y agoYour argument silently assumes that the bureaucracy contains no error correction procedures.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoWhen the problem includes the top administrator, bureaucratic error correction procedures are somewhat less effective.
- Arnt 2y agoAren't we talking about the country where error correction won over the very top administrator? He said "I am not a crook", error correction won. You shouldn't just assume that such a country has no error correction.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoI didn't say "no error correction"; I said "somewhat less effective". Error correction worked with Nixon, eventually; it mostly worked with Trump, so far, but the final outcome is not yet known. With Fauci... did it work?
- Arnt 2y agoGP wrote "no one was attempting", which I didn't take to mean "only the usual set of people was attempting" or anything like that.
- maxerickson 2y agoPolitico is hardly held up as a shining star in media circles. It's also not very precise to cast the issue of dereliction at the NIH prior to the pandemic as of it were "the" salient contended issue at the beginning of the pandemic.