That was very deliberate.
>>He also dismissed the idea of somebody sneezing on
>>someone as a way to get infected, turning that answer
>>into being about “airborne” transmission.
As was that.
>>I was thinking that these scientist types aren't acting
>>as if this is as serious as $1 Billion and 3,000
>>troops “right NOW!” would indicate it is.
The CDC like a lot of Federal government agencies has factions based on who you are and what you do.
There are at least three that stand out.
1. Researchers
2. CDC public relations folks who do “Public Health Messaging”
3. Hot zone operators.
The first two tend to dominate the CDC bureacracy as the Hot Zone folks rotate in and out of NGO’s like MSF/Doctors Without Borders.
The researchers tend to be time servers who don't deal well with real people and have been responsible to the horrid storage of dangerous diseases like the recent “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” forgotten warehousing of Small Pox.
The worse of the crew are the PR “messaging” flacks, whom Fauci seems to be chief of as head of CDC and lead faction leader.
When the CDC talks “messaging,” they are trying to reduce lots of public health information down to the simplest form to maintain control of the populations while they do their thing.
Its relation to the truth is strongest when it helps with control.
Ebola Fomite and droplet spread are nightmares from the disease message control point of view in that they are complicated and subject to lots of panic.
The CDC (and WHO come to that) 1st instinct when dealing with either Ebola Fomite and droplet spread is to “revert to message” which will limit any public response — even if it can be useful for preventing future disease spread — so they can maintain the illusion of control right now. Even if they have none.
Bookmarked... (LVD).