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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
On the topic of US guidance during Covid-19, much has been made of the mixed messages of Trump+Pence. More sinister though, has been the silent emasculation of the CDC by the Trump admin. Rachel Maddow has recently done a piece exposing the glaring difference between the pre- and post-Covid CDC. I wonder if anyone else has seen it?
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For decades, in response to health problems like Legionnaire's disease the CDC has given stern instructions to industry: Do this, don't do that.
With Covid under Trump, their messages are full of "perhaps" "if possible" and "could". It sounds like, at every level, the current Federal/WH response is a hopeless muddle.
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
That may be part Trump and part this virus is ****ing baffling in ways we’ve never (?) seen before.
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^ It's true that there's a lot we don't know about how covid19 affects the body, but the scientists know plenty about how a contagious respiratory virus is passed from human to human. They learned about preventitive methods during sars and mers and all those others.
What's new is that the CDC used to give out instructions. They used imperatives, without qualification: "Do this."
Now everything has an escape clause attached: "Do this if feasable."
Rachel Maddow makes it clear that the CDC has been neutered, presumably so that those meat packing plants can stay open despite health risks. They can even say they worked within CDC guidelines: " Yeah, we would've done it, but it wasn't feasable, so like CDC said, we left it...."