This cost a trivial $20M per year and funded the woman listed below among others. Of note, in her team's research they have found dozens of bat-borne coronaviruses in the same family as SARS. This did not sneak up on us; we already have MERS, SARS and Ebola. We should have been (and continuing) spending billions as a species on this but everyone has their head in the sand.
1-[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...]
But it was shut down because it failed, not to save money “But things got complicated in the last two years, and by January, Predict was essentially collapsed into hibernation.”
Maybe I'm misreading the quote, but it sounds like there was some sort of problem with the program, and they just gave up and shut it down.
The revenue brought in from taxes increased after the tax cuts.
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2019-11/55824-CBO-MBR-FY19....
No.
The person I was responding to was making the claim that budget cuts were made to make tax cuts possible. I was trying to say that the tax cuts did not lower the revenue so budget cuts were not needed to justify the tax cuts.
SARS-1 (2003) and MERS are recent coronaviruses, and Ebola re-occurs every other year.
SARS-1 had a similar effect on Toronto hospitals as the current COVID-19 on NYC, with staff wiped out.
You'd think a disease that fatal (over 50%) would wipe itself out. Or maybe, horrors, it's really that bad!
In 2014, the US had a cluster of Ebola cases, and was totally unprepared, with one patient and 2 nurses getting infected:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ebola-virus-outbreak/nurse...
"[nurse] went home in the scrubs she wore while treating Duncan [for Ebola]."
That transmission was via an airline passenger from Liberia.
But if not the "elites" (eye roll) then who? The "non-elites" running things now aren't doing a bang up job.
If not the elites, then some other elites, obviously. But the current ones have been failing us all over: a generation of scientific stagnation, poor diet and health advice, including absolutely ridiculous stuff about masks (CDC) and human-to-human transmission (WHO), and just grifting, like saddling young people with immense debt for education which seems to have no value beyond the sheepskin effect. Which is a fairly classic elite money extraction scheme but taken to really damaging, society-wide scale.
> The damage would have been far worse had Congress not stood in the way of repeated defunding attempts by the Trump administration. In its first two years, the Trump budgets proposed to slash the CDC’s appropriation by 18.2% and then by 17.1% (accounting for inflation). Today, its FY 2021 budget still seeks a cut of over 10%. Even when Republicans controlled both houses, Congress roundly rejected these aggressive Executive-led cuts, to maintain the agency’s funding near the previous year’s level.
https://envirodatagov.org/an-embattled-landscape-series-part...