P3: Pandemic Prevention Platform (2017)

Post by aldoushuxley001 » Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 10:41 PM UTC

pengaru wrote: post #40

m0zg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. The proposed CDC funding cuts have been overruled by Congress. In fact the CDC gets more funding now than at any point under Obama (who BTW, also tried to cut the budget several times; e.g. 2015 CDC budget is $243M less than 2014), and this year's budget is larger than last year. It's not the lack of funds. It's total mismanagement. $7B+/yr and we get 70 people tested per day as thousands are being infect…

There's a complete lack of leadership in handling this pandemic in large part because this incompetent administration disbanded the national security team global health security and biodefense directorate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

Post by pengaru » Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 12:33 AM UTC

m0zg wrote: post #41

pengaru wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a complete lack of leadership in handling this pandemic in large part because this incompetent administration disbanded the national security team global health security and biodefense directorate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

Care to explain why there was lack of leadership in 2009 when 57 million Americans got infected with H1N1? Or why Ebola response was also botched? There seems to be a long history of incompetence here. You can't fix incompetence by giving the incompetent more money or keeping them around.