The Deep State's takeover of American life is based on a simple promise: "Give us more power, and we'll keep you safe."
The bureaucrats running the alphabet soup of federal agencies believe they know what's best for us. They think they can dictate our health decisions, our educational decisions, and our economic decisions. They take our freedom away with the promise that they're doing "what's best" for us.
The promise has always been a lie, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought that lie to the light of day. The bureaucracy didn't keep us safe, and yet they continue to strip away our freedoms.
The Centers for Disease Control is Exhibit A of this incompetence. In a thorough piece for Reason, Peter Suderman walks through all the ways the CDC dropped the ball. Here's how he begins:
The pandemic was a test of America's public health bureaucracy. It failed.
Those failures were legion, and they were spread across multiple officials, agencies, and layers of government. But no institution failed quite as abysmally as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which, through a combination of arrogance, incompetence, and astonishingly poor planning, wasted America's only chance to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 before it spread widely.
The CDC is supposed to be America's frontline institution in the fight against infectious disease. Its job is to analyze viral threats, track their spread and development, and provide the public with relevant information about how to respond to outbreaks. Not only did the agency do this job poorly in the early stages of the pandemic, but it actively hindered efforts that would have greatly improved America's response, and it made planning errors that were both predictable and avoidable. At nearly every stage of the pandemic, the CDC got things wrong and got in the way. Its failures almost certainly made America's pandemic worse.
The CDC's epic COVID failures made the pandemic so, so much worse - COSAction
The bureaucrats running the alphabet soup of federal agencies believe they know what's best for us. They think they can dictate our health decisions, our educational decisions, and our economic decisions. They take our freedom away with the promise that they're doing "what's best" for us.
The promise has always been a lie, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought that lie to the light of day. The bureaucracy didn't keep us safe, and yet they continue to strip away our freedoms.
The Centers for Disease Control is Exhibit A of this incompetence. In a thorough piece for Reason, Peter Suderman walks through all the ways the CDC dropped the ball. Here's how he begins:
The pandemic was a test of America's public health bureaucracy. It failed.
Those failures were legion, and they were spread across multiple officials, agencies, and layers of government. But no institution failed quite as abysmally as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which, through a combination of arrogance, incompetence, and astonishingly poor planning, wasted America's only chance to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 before it spread widely.
The CDC is supposed to be America's frontline institution in the fight against infectious disease. Its job is to analyze viral threats, track their spread and development, and provide the public with relevant information about how to respond to outbreaks. Not only did the agency do this job poorly in the early stages of the pandemic, but it actively hindered efforts that would have greatly improved America's response, and it made planning errors that were both predictable and avoidable. At nearly every stage of the pandemic, the CDC got things wrong and got in the way. Its failures almost certainly made America's pandemic worse.
The CDC's epic COVID failures made the pandemic so, so much worse - COSAction
