COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

LonghornSaint said
Okay, even if the CDC was shown to be wrong, why SHOULD they lose funding? We NEED scientists researching viruses and analyzing data. We NEED researchers tracking viral hotspots around the planet. We NEED technicians going out into the field and retrieving samples. We NEED coordinators coming up with contingency plans in the event of a outbreak.

IMO, what SHOULD happen IF the CDC was found to have covered something up, is that the Administrators who made that decision should be FIRED, rather than defund the entire CDC organization.

My facetious response to your post was to highlight the “cutting ones nose off to spite your face“ aspect of defunding the CDC.

Defunding the CDC is NOT going to make our future better. Viruses will still exist, and we will still need to study them and plan accordingly.

I think we agree on quite a bit. The origin is maybe where we don't agree and that's about it. I do think we need scientists and above all else we need impartial scientists and I think that gets tougher when money and funding get involved. If it was found out that we were intentionally misled on the origin or even that they discovered later it's origin and didn't disclose it I would think all trust is then gone and it would be time to burn it down and start over.
So my problem with the CDC is rooted in their early handling of this. We were short on PPE so they changed requirements to accommodate those shortages. As someone married to a healthcare worker that ticked me off. Changing requirements to fit supply is not what a scientist should do... especially when it's putting my wife and family at risk. That's not science. Lack of PPE doesn't make this virus any less dangerous. It's one thing to be short on PPE which was bad enough but when the CDC says you can wear a bandana it gives the hospital all it needs to send my wife into a covid room with a damn bandana on her face.