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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by blfr on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:23PM (#23408185)
Funding in 2019 isn't the problem. CDC had obviously wrong advice on their website against wearing masks since 2009. The modern day elites have been showing their incompetence time and again lately. This is not because they were a few dollars short.
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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by hylaride on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:40PM (#23408397)
Wrong how? COVID-19 didn't exist until late last year, so how could they have been wrong since 2009? Even if they were wrong, people can be wrong and change based on new information. That's not incompetence, that's learning.

But if not the "elites" (eye roll) then who? The "non-elites" running things now aren't doing a bang up job.

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Re:The CDC waited 'it's entire existence for this moment.' W... by blfr on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:55PM (#23408616)
Wrong in the obvious way that it doesn't impede transmission. The recommendation from 2009 was for H1N1 and they stuck to it for corona. If they couldn't figure it out in a decade, they should have been defunded.

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.

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