This was on NPR this evening. Leadership was strangled at the CDC by t'Rump.
LC https://www.npr.org/2020/10/08/921782018/former-cdc-director-on-how-to-restore-faith-in-agency On Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 6:21:00 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > The New England Journal of Medicine is the premier medical journal in the > USA and probably the world, and it very rarely issues a political > editorial, but today it issued one and for only the fourth time in it's 208 > year history concerning any subject the editorial was signed by every > single one of the journal's editors. Just like the editors of the journal > "Science" and of Scientific American they felt compelled the state before > the election to say just how incompetent the president has behaved; so on > November 3 people will have to decide if they are on team science or team > political hack. The editorial lists many damning examples of incompetence > such as: > > *"The death rate in this country is more than double that of Canada, > exceeds that of Japan, a country with a vulnerable and elderly population, > by a factor of almost 50, and even dwarfs the rates in lower-middle-income > countries, such as Vietnam, by a factor of almost 2000."* > > And concludes with these words: > > *"Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would > be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity > for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment. > Reasonable people will certainly disagree about the many political > positions taken by candidates. But truth is neither liberal nor > conservative. When it comes to the response to the largest public health > crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that > they are dangerously incompetent. We should not abet them and enable the > deaths of thousands more Americans by allowing them to keep their jobs."* > > > *Dying in a Leadership Vacuum > <https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2029812>* > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/0bd16862-3914-44de-9397-f010a9aa20c3n%40googlegroups.com.
