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The Monumental Failure of the CDC
American Institute for Economic Research ^ | 11 Apr 2020 | Veronique de Rugy

Posted on 04/13/2020 4:37:53 AM PDT by Politically Correct

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1 posted on 04/13/2020 4:37:53 AM PDT by Politically Correct
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And Fauci's NIH gave the WUHAN LAB a 3.7 MILLION DOLLAR GRANT for research on bats!!

Fraud Fauci's got some explaining to do!!

2 posted on 04/13/2020 4:44:51 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Politically Correct

Fauci has been embedded into government since 1968. The last patient he treated wore bell bottom pants and a tie-dyed shirt, and this guy missed the only pandemic of our lifetime? The quicker DJT fires this little crud the better.


3 posted on 04/13/2020 4:55:33 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Politically Correct

The CDC is a very typical bloated government agency that has let us down horribly right when they were most needed.

They have some gall over there to point fingers of blame at Trump.


4 posted on 04/13/2020 5:05:10 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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We give them over $8 billion a year to protect us from emerging diseases.

And the best solution they had to offer us was “mitigation”?

We don’t need to give the over $8 billion a year any more.


5 posted on 04/13/2020 5:07:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Let us not overlook the enormous amount of resources that CDC spends annually on HIV. HIV is not a health problem for the general public. It is totally a behavior problem among the homosexual community. Their own bad risky behavior is what causes HIV. No one gets HIV by getting closer than six feet to anyone else. Nope! You must have unprotected sexual contact or exchange contaminated needles. This is the bad behavior that is the root cause.


6 posted on 04/13/2020 5:08:32 AM PDT by Saltmeat (69)
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I don’t know how much they spent, but there are thousands of hits on the CDC’s web site on topics like Diversity, Transgender, and Climate Change.

See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3832892/posts?page=47#47

All that content doesn’t come cheap.

I say this is a clear misuse of agency funding for political purposes.


7 posted on 04/13/2020 5:09:20 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Fauci promised an HIV vaccine in the early 1990s. Didn’t happen.


8 posted on 04/13/2020 5:10:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“That’s particularly true of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In theory, the prevention of diseases like this one is the agency’s entire reason d’être. It is right there in its name “Disease Control.” Its mission statement page also makes the centrality of this goal clear. It states as its priority “confronting global disease threats through advanced computing and lab analysis of huge amounts of data to quickly find solutions.”

If there ever was an “epic fail”, this is it.

CDC is way off mission, spending money on global warming and gun control, rather than PPE, ventilators, and HCQ.

They’ll blame Trump and lack of funds, and get away with it.


9 posted on 04/13/2020 5:12:55 AM PDT by JPJones (More Tariffs, less income tax.)
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Fauci promised an HIV vaccine in the early 1990s. Didn’t happen.

Yet he struts to the microphones every day cock-sure that he'll have one for this inside of 18 months. The guy is a fraud.


10 posted on 04/13/2020 5:22:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Agree 100% about CDC. I have interacted professionally at least monthly with CDC since 1974 and the slow, steady decline in functionality and the simultaneous mission creep have been terrible to watch.

Not enough criticism of FDA though, FDA is primarily responsible for both the lack of new PPE production, the restriction of PPE imports AND the testing disaster.

11 posted on 04/13/2020 5:28:26 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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Fauci promised an HIV vaccine in the early 1990s. Didn’t happen

Reference?

Margaret Heckler (HHS Secretary) promised an HIV vaccine "within six months" at the First International AIDS conference in Atlanta in 1986 (where I heard her do it), I'd like a citation about Fauci because I don't believe it.

12 posted on 04/13/2020 5:31:46 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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-—” The guy is a fraud.”-—

The guy is not so much of a fraud, as he is simply a “liberal.” And, I don’t mean that in any good way.


13 posted on 04/13/2020 5:38:46 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: JPJones
CDC is way off mission, spending money on global warming and gun control, rather than PPE, ventilators, and HCQ.

This is one of the few instances of a crisis that should not go to waste.

14 posted on 04/13/2020 5:40:07 AM PDT by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Politically Correct

“You had ONE JOB!”


15 posted on 04/13/2020 5:41:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Also they stood idly by while the Obama administration allowed mass immigrations of folks from third world countries with all varieties of diseases.


16 posted on 04/13/2020 5:51:29 AM PDT by bennowens
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To: Jim Noble
Agree 100% about CDC. I have interacted professionally at least monthly with CDC since 1974 and the slow, steady decline in functionality and the simultaneous mission creep have been terrible to watch. Not enough criticism of FDA though, FDA is primarily responsible for both the lack of new PPE production, the restriction of PPE imports AND the testing disaster.

My interactions professionally with the CDC began in about 1990. We tried to report the presence of Lyme disease in Missouri. Sequenced the genes of the little bugger. Showed it microscopically. Even found the tick that was the reservoir. They refused to recognize it.

After about 10 years our main guy died of unrelated causes and they finally got around to calling it Lyme-like. There was a lot of "not found here, doesn't exist" going on.

Today, thirty years later, clinicians in the area routinely order tests for Lyme disease, find it and treat it.

17 posted on 04/13/2020 6:01:48 AM PDT by Politically Correct
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The CDC and crew are as corrupt as can be and this is a success to them beyond their wildest dreams.


18 posted on 04/13/2020 6:03:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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One good thing that will come from this long term: The private sector will be way more prepared next time something like this comes along.

Speaking for my own company, we were caught flat-footed with lack of protective gear for our field personnel (who are still out there working by the way) with the inability to order it in bulk when this thing hit, as the priority on ordering was being given elsewhere. But we have over 5,000 face masks coming in later this week and over 20,000 pairs of nitril gloves by end of this month. Too little, too late. But we will be ready next time.

19 posted on 04/13/2020 6:03:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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But we have over 5,000 face masks coming in later this week and over 20,000 pairs of nitril gloves by end of this month. Too little, too late.

Yeah, this pandemic in the US is almost over. The number of new cases has started to decrease which is the harbinger of the end. At this point it's unlikely that any of your people will catch it as there's very few people left that still have it or are infectious.

20 posted on 04/13/2020 6:12:50 AM PDT by Politically Correct
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