Hope for improvement from the CDC

[mtbc]

A few weeks ago, the Associated Press reported that the CDC director announced plans to reorganize, probably next year, in addressing their failings with SARS-CoV-2. Thank goodness for that, it was strange for me as a layperson to be maybe even nearly a couple of years ahead of what the the official understanding seemed to be. I'm no expert, I was just reading case reports from American doctors, preprints from SE Asia, etc., but everything further has just confirmed the heart of those earlier indications. The CDC didn't have the WHO's excuse of having to pander to China. I may not be holding my breath but I am glad to see some on-target acknowledgement of a need to improve and intention to put measures in place to achieve that.

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[mtbc]

The CDC does also seem to intend to take other measures, like improving their responsiveness to discoveries by taking more account of preprints, etc., so at least it's not all about reporting. So I am at least encouraged by some acknowledgement that they got things wrong. You're quite right about gaps, of course, e.g., I don't know to what extent they were just blinded by conventional-wrong wisdom that hardly anything's much airborne, versus just finding convenient things in their bottoms.

I seem to talk to a few people who hold BBC news in fairly low regard and I haven't much drilled into those details, though I was differently disappointed with their pandemic coverage. With people's unhappiness with the NYT too I'm running low on convenient news sources. Though, of course, these days the BBC's all where's the coffin now? and here's somebody who glimpsed Her Majesty a few decades ago.

Eat Out To Help Out: absolutely. R. now has to go into the office a fair bit, not because her employer or job demand it, but because the city (maybe wider) will tax the employers hard if they aren't filling the offices plenty again.

The gaslighting toward normal appears to have worked out nicely for them, so far. I am curious if there will eventually be any accountability should long-term cumulative toll somehow become more apparent but I am not holding my breath.