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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 5/10/2020 12:41:40 AM

The Food and Drug Administration, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, failed America with its coronavirus response. The CDC bears enormous fault for violating its own manufacturing standards and then distributing a faulty test (one that had been contaminated with the coronavirus) to labs throughout the country. In addition, FDA decisions in February and March hampered and delayed the development of tests for the virus and the production of protective equipment. While these failures are extremely visible and have caused needless deaths, the agency’s regulatory approach has led to less visible mistakes for decades.

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Perhaps one silver lining in the Kung Flu debacle is that this country's rapid response weaknesses have been exposed and can now be dealt with. If this means firing every desk jockey and useless self-important bureaucrat and starting from the beginning, so be it!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Ret.TxLeo 5/10/2020 12:51:16 AM (No. 406606)
FDA, USDA, FBI, Justice Dept, House and Senate. It all needs to be overhauled, cleaned out and the Food Safety Act passed under the dead of night under obama needs to be tossed and revamped.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 5/10/2020 2:23:13 AM (No. 406652)
It has long been true. Trump should take a meat cleaver to these regulatory agencies and just eliminate a huge portion of their regulations which are strangling us all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: NotaBene 5/10/2020 2:30:42 AM (No. 406653)
The huge NIH bureaucracy has also been a catastrophe and should be renewed. They should give investigator-initiated grants and reduce the useless gigantic Bethesda campus. No one is working at the intramural NIH for fear of fear.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: IowaDad 5/10/2020 6:59:00 AM (No. 406727)
Of these agencies, I give NIH a B+. Its procedures for approving innovative grants is best-in-world. I give the FDA a B-. It is much more nimble and scientifically aggressive than it was five years ago, but its (illegal) stranglehold over state institutions offering within-state SARS-Cov-2 testing is a savage mistake. I give the CDC an F. A dreadful and elementary error in creating a routine virus PCR test, failing to correct that error before the test was released, failures to correct it promptly after it was released, no useful science, very poor data gathering and awful misleading data displays make me think the entire CDC should be closed and rebuilt with an entirely new team in another city. Time to euthanize this past-its-sell-by-date institution.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: paral04 5/10/2020 10:02:56 AM (No. 406916)
This is an example of why government employees should be fired immediately for incompetence. There are too many people riding out their jobs til they retire. We need to clean up these agencies.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Justcurious 5/10/2020 1:26:02 PM (No. 407149)
There's no doubt we were poorly served. PT is the man to fix it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: whyyeseyec 5/10/2020 2:17:48 PM (No. 407197)
Govt operates by 'process'. Everything is a process dictated by written specifications contained with a policy. Read the policy and follow the specs. Do not deviate unless told to do so. Stay within your GS rating and do not think outside the box. If Congress ever got serious about reforming departments and agencies, guess what - they'd have to follow a process which dictates creating a govt reform agencies dedicated to reforming all the other existing agencies. Money would be allocated, directors would have to be appointed, sub directors, vice subdirectors, employees hired, brick and mortar structures, etc. You get the idea. While reform and samller govt is necessary, good luck trying to get there.
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