Posted on 03/16/2020 6:41:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Centers for Disease Control has a $6.6 billion budget and one job which it messes up every time.
The last time the CDC had a serious workout was six years ago during the Ebola crisis. Back then CDC guidelines allowed medical personnel infected with Ebola to avoid a quarantine and interact with Americans until they showed undeniable symptoms of the disease. There were no protocols in place for treating the potentially infected resulting in the further spread of the disease inside the United States.
At the height of the crisis, confidence in the CDC fell to 37%. Meanwhile, CDC personnel had managed to mishandle Ebola virus samples, accidentally sending samples of the live virus to CDC labs. And the heads of the health bureaucracy blamed the lack of funding for their failure to have an Ebola vaccine.
The self-quarantine measures adopted in response to the coronavirus outbreak are partially a response to the lessons of the Ebola disaster.
But during the Ebola crisis, Democrats tried to shift responsibility from the Obama administration by blaming Republicans for cutting the CDC’s budget from $6.5 billion to $5.9 billion. Sound familiar? Where do those billions for the CDC actually go? Among other things, pushing gun control. The terrible budget deal from December allocated $25 million to the CDC and NIH to study gun violence.
During the Ebola crisis, the CDC had been spending a mere $2.6 million on gun violence studies. But the CDC has a history of wasting money on everything from a $106 million visitor's center with Japanese gardens, a $200K gym, a transgender beauty pageant, not to mention promoting bike paths.
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And working on the democrats gun control agenda,
Well, as long as the CDC had its priorities straight. [/sarc]
CDC says gun incidents are a disease that affects 25-year-old teenagers
The fight against obesity is going badly.
There’s no cost. We’re Americans and we’ll keep defending our own, ad nauseam.
Speaking for myself. You sir, will do the same.
I’m in Southern CA (now, after the big fire), please know i’m on your side, if I can get there, in the next big crises.
Paradise, CA what essentially annihilated.
Work 2 days out of 7 for the Democrats, get paid by Republicans.
Just like teachin’ school.
CDC says gun incidents are a disease that affects 25-year-old teenagers
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That would be lead poisoning.
CA has banned lead for hunting and is working on lead ban at shooting ranges.
So these teens may become susceptible to copper poisoning.
CDC better get a head start on this one.
CDC sucks. They are not earning their keep at all.
Their website for CV is lousy and it looks like they are not even in communication with the White House. You can’t even find the 15 day plan.
WTH?
Robert Redfield, the director there and appointed by Trump, should hang his head in shame and turn in his resignation.
(Was)
All hail 0bambi 0bola, our former Deer (in the headlights) Leader.
At the height of the crisis, confidence in the CDC fell to 37%. Meanwhile, CDC personnel had managed to mishandle Ebola virus samples, accidentally sending samples of the live virus to CDC labs. And the heads of the health bureaucracy blamed the lack of funding for their failure to have an Ebola vaccine... Democrats tried to shift responsibility from the Obama administration by blaming Republicans for cutting the CDC’s budget from $6.5 billion to $5.9 billion. Sound familiar? Where do those billions for the CDC actually go? Among other things, pushing gun control. The terrible budget deal from December allocated $25 million to the CDC and NIH to study gun violence. During the Ebola crisis, the CDC had been spending a mere $2.6 million on gun violence studies. But the CDC has a history of wasting money on everything from a $106 million visitor's center with Japanese gardens, a $200K gym, a transgender beauty pageant, not to mention promoting bike paths.
Absolutely
A good metaphor is that the cdc was the american equivalent of the italian hospital system.
Selective affirmative action hiring at the CDC resulted in a government organization that had 36% minority status and they were not the minority at the left of the Bell Curve.
CDC was also into global warming and gun control imaginary stuff
As a pundit said, kids should be more worried about losing jobs to illegals in the future than all this bull sht walking out of school for climate
And guns.
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Clean house when this is over. Turn the CDC into the CDC. NO MAKE BELIEVE DISEASES.
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