Why the Government Is No Good at Fighting C****av***s: One of the defining features of the c****av***s p******c has been the failure of government, especially at the federal level, to...

American Vet

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p******c has been the failure of government, especially at the federal level, to act in a wise, timely, or effective fashion. When cases of c****av***s started showing up in Washington state in January, researchers turned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for approval to test nasal swabs but were rebuffed by bureaucrats there and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Officials told local doctors to stop running unauthorized tests, then waited until February 29 to let biotech companies and non-government research labs develop and deploy new tests for the v***s. The two main agencies charged with protecting the nation's public health screwed up from the very beginning.

In a devastating new story, the AP reports that "the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment." As China and then Italy wrestled with the spread of c****av***s, the president publicly minimized dangers and privately kept various agencies under his control from increasing supplies of equipment from N-95 masks to ventilators. "State and local officials report receiving broken ventilators and decade-old dry-rotted masks," says the AP, which quotes p**********l son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner's statement on Thursday that "the federal stockpile" is "not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use."

Bad as this is, it's important to underscore that the calamitous federal response is not simply the fault of Donald Trump and the people around him. As The Washington Post's Dan Balz, no supporter of the president, reported over the weekend,

The problems go far broader and deeper than what a president does. Lack of planning and pr********n contribute, but so too does bureaucratic inertia as well as fear among career officials of taking risks. Turnover in personnel robs government of historical knowledge and expertise. The process of policymaking-on-the-fly is less robust than it once was. Politics, too, gets in the way.

https://reason.com/2020/04/06/why-the-government-is-no-good-at-fighting-c****av***s/?utm_medium=email

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

American Vet wrote:

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p******c has been the failure of government, especially at the federal level, to act in a wise, timely, or effective fashion. When cases of c****av***s started showing up in Washington state in January, researchers turned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for approval to test nasal swabs but were rebuffed by bureaucrats there and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Officials told local doctors to stop running unauthorized tests, then waited until February 29 to let biotech companies and non-government research labs develop and deploy new tests for the v***s. The two main agencies charged with protecting the nation's public health screwed up from the very beginning.

In a devastating new story, the AP reports that "the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment." As China and then Italy wrestled with the spread of c****av***s, the president publicly minimized dangers and privately kept various agencies under his control from increasing supplies of equipment from N-95 masks to ventilators. "State and local officials report receiving broken ventilators and decade-old dry-rotted masks," says the AP, which quotes p**********l son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner's statement on Thursday that "the federal stockpile" is "not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use."

Bad as this is, it's important to underscore that the calamitous federal response is not simply the fault of Donald Trump and the people around him. As The Washington Post's Dan Balz, no supporter of the president, reported over the weekend,

The problems go far broader and deeper than what a president does. Lack of planning and pr********n contribute, but so too does bureaucratic inertia as well as fear among career officials of taking risks. Turnover in personnel robs government of historical knowledge and expertise. The process of policymaking-on-the-fly is less robust than it once was. Politics, too, gets in the way.

https://reason.com/2020/04/06/why-the-government-is-no-good-at-fighting-c****av***s/?utm_medium=email

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p*... (show quote)

This is what I have been saying.. And it is not just America... Canada and most of Europe are in the same position....

Gatsby

American Vet wrote:

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p******c has been the failure of government, especially at the federal level, to act in a wise, timely, or effective fashion. When cases of c****av***s started showing up in Washington state in January, researchers turned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for approval to test nasal swabs but were rebuffed by bureaucrats there and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Officials told local doctors to stop running unauthorized tests, then waited until February 29 to let biotech companies and non-government research labs develop and deploy new tests for the v***s. The two main agencies charged with protecting the nation's public health screwed up from the very beginning.

In a devastating new story, the AP reports that "the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment." As China and then Italy wrestled with the spread of c****av***s, the president publicly minimized dangers and privately kept various agencies under his control from increasing supplies of equipment from N-95 masks to ventilators. "State and local officials report receiving broken ventilators and decade-old dry-rotted masks," says the AP, which quotes p**********l son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner's statement on Thursday that "the federal stockpile" is "not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use."

Bad as this is, it's important to underscore that the calamitous federal response is not simply the fault of Donald Trump and the people around him. As The Washington Post's Dan Balz, no supporter of the president, reported over the weekend,

The problems go far broader and deeper than what a president does. Lack of planning and pr********n contribute, but so too does bureaucratic inertia as well as fear among career officials of taking risks. Turnover in personnel robs government of historical knowledge and expertise. The process of policymaking-on-the-fly is less robust than it once was. Politics, too, gets in the way.

https://reason.com/2020/04/06/why-the-government-is-no-good-at-fighting-c****av***s/?utm_medium=email

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p*... (show quote)

It was our scientific community that let US down so badly, the "experts" at the CDC and the WHO

started us all out on the wrong track, the WHO initially told us that the v***s was not t***smittable

between Humans. OOPS! There will be plenty of time to look back later, right now we all really do

need to be "ALL EYES FORWARD"!

American Vet

Gatsby wrote:

It was our scientific community that let US down so badly, the "experts" at the CDC and the WHO

started us all out on the wrong track, the WHO initially told us that the v***s was not t***smittable

between Humans. OOPS! There will be plenty of time to look back later, right now we all really do

need to be "ALL EYES FORWARD"!

Not sure that I agree with that. Trying to predict a 'force of nature' is difficult. At the time, IIRC, the best data they had (be it correct or not) was that it wasn't t***smittable.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

American Vet wrote:

Not sure that I agree with that. Trying to predict a 'force of nature' is difficult. At the time, IIRC, the best data they had (be it correct or not) was that it wasn't t***smittable.

I think regardless of how the WHO responded... Or what information was put out... The lack of pr********n was stunning...

This could have happened last year or ten years from now.. Without any pr********n or planning I doubt the result would have been much different....

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

American Vet wrote:

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p******c has been the failure of government, especially at the federal level, to act in a wise, timely, or effective fashion. When cases of c****av***s started showing up in Washington state in January, researchers turned to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for approval to test nasal swabs but were rebuffed by bureaucrats there and at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Officials told local doctors to stop running unauthorized tests, then waited until February 29 to let biotech companies and non-government research labs develop and deploy new tests for the v***s. The two main agencies charged with protecting the nation's public health screwed up from the very beginning.

In a devastating new story, the AP reports that "the Trump administration squandered nearly two months that could have been used to bolster the federal stockpile of critically needed medical supplies and equipment." As China and then Italy wrestled with the spread of c****av***s, the president publicly minimized dangers and privately kept various agencies under his control from increasing supplies of equipment from N-95 masks to ventilators. "State and local officials report receiving broken ventilators and decade-old dry-rotted masks," says the AP, which quotes p**********l son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner's statement on Thursday that "the federal stockpile" is "not supposed to be state stockpiles that they then use."

Bad as this is, it's important to underscore that the calamitous federal response is not simply the fault of Donald Trump and the people around him. As The Washington Post's Dan Balz, no supporter of the president, reported over the weekend,

The problems go far broader and deeper than what a president does. Lack of planning and pr********n contribute, but so too does bureaucratic inertia as well as fear among career officials of taking risks. Turnover in personnel robs government of historical knowledge and expertise. The process of policymaking-on-the-fly is less robust than it once was. Politics, too, gets in the way.

https://reason.com/2020/04/06/why-the-government-is-no-good-at-fighting-c****av***s/?utm_medium=email

One of the defining features of the c****av***s p*... (show quote)

When politicians treat their people's needs like toys in a sandbox....................................cats s**t on them.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

This is what I have been saying.. And it is not just America... Canada and most of Europe are in the same position....

Every country is pulling up the rear in inaction dur to sll as addressed in the article..

Or should I say pulling up their asses in no one being prepared for such as we are now in although we have had many warnings and other p******c threats that went unaddressed!!!