Wasn't the CDC budget cut drastically by the current administration? You reap what you sow.

Nope this was misinformation sowed for political purposes: https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104

The budget proposal included cuts to it, though, and some of the response teams that were in place in the government were cut.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

And yet that's not what you insinuated. There were no cuts no matter how you characterize it-your source confirms that. Certainly no "reaping" what was "sowed".

You're responding to me, not the author of the 'reaping' comment.

I'm responding to both, the cuts you mention never took place so it's a bad faith accusation.

Maybe I'm just not reading this right, but the right column is all red. Doesn't red mean "smaller than last year"?

https://www.cdc.gov/budget/documents/fy2020/fy-2020-detail-t...

No, the budget was not cut.

Well Congress is the ones who actually pass the budget so no?

Why would you have any confidence with CDC?

Go browse through the weekly bulletins from 2003 regarding the SARS 'epidemic' in the US. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5218a2.htm

You'll read of the hundreds of 'confirmed' and 'probsble' cases and dire warnings and the like.

Then, when the dust settles and years pass, the CDC reluctantly admits the following: ------ In the United States, only eight people had laboratory evidence of SARS-CoV infection. All of these people had traveled to other parts of the world where SARS was spreading. SARS did not spread more widely in the community in the United States. https://www.cdc.gov/sars/about/fs-sars.html#outbreak ----

The market and the current administration both benefit from a low count of confirmed cases. The administration has already been criticized for repeatedly attempting to slash the CDC budget[1] and terminating the epidemic response team[2]. Trump also keeps attempting to downplay the severity of the virus so it would not be a good look if the true spread of the disease was widely known. Knowledge of the spread would also probably trigger more panic selling in the markets which the current administration also tries to avoid as much as possible.

[1]: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democr...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

That just doesn’t make sense to me. Uncontained, this disease will grow exponentially until tens of millions are infected at once, and it eventually burns itself out. But by then, the disaster will be obvious and we will have the same result. Only with more casualties.

Certainly anyone who had that sort of ulterior motive would understand this.

Making sense is not a priority for this administration.

I predict Trump administration will underreport the numbers and use the courts to hold up transparency reports and audits until after the election.

They’re already refusing to test people, and I’m guessing they’ll start to blame the flu and/or fake news at some point.

They’ll probably somehow exceed my expectations, and come up with even more cynical tactics than this. For instance, I’ve seen users in other forums blame liberal china lovers for bringing the disease to the US. I wonder if they’re paid trolls or not.