Excellent article - should be required reading in management courses.
So, the CDC with years to prepare and millions of dollars funding it - was unprepared to manage a real pandemic.
It should be apparent that an organization is better off meeting criticism head on, in open debate - instead of suppressing it. They should have been prepared for this and established a policy to deal with it.
Consider the Tylenol poisoning. Burke's first order was "How do we protect the people?". The second was "How do we save the product?". It doesn't seem that the CDC ever studied this.
The CDC acted to "save the product". Now, the question is, can the CDC ever recover the trust of the public? To make matters even worse, their collusion with the teachers union is something many parents will remember.
Powerful article, very well articulated. I concurr on the slippery slope and dangerous move that deplatforming and censoring contrarian expert opinions entail.
The thought of Dr. Jay Battacharya on the damage done to children hit too close to home. Virtual school for many children was a poor substitute to in person education.
There's also the concept of immunity gap: Because children were in virtual schools and in lockdown mode during the first couple years of the covid pandemic, many of them didn't acquire the seasonal immunities that are common on kids. It's no wonder that Flu, RSV, Influenza, Colds came ravaging in the Fall of 2023... Add to the mix that Covid is still around... Like Bastiat said "The seen and the unseen"
Yow. How apt to say that "Putting it in terms parallel to Socrates’s indictment, some have been banned for failing to acknowledge the science that the federal government acknowledges, for introducing new science, and for corrupting Americans." And the rattlesnake ...
If only today's persecutors could see themselves in yesterday's persecutors ...
Excellent article - should be required reading in management courses.
So, the CDC with years to prepare and millions of dollars funding it - was unprepared to manage a real pandemic.
It should be apparent that an organization is better off meeting criticism head on, in open debate - instead of suppressing it. They should have been prepared for this and established a policy to deal with it.
Consider the Tylenol poisoning. Burke's first order was "How do we protect the people?". The second was "How do we save the product?". It doesn't seem that the CDC ever studied this.
The CDC acted to "save the product". Now, the question is, can the CDC ever recover the trust of the public? To make matters even worse, their collusion with the teachers union is something many parents will remember.
Powerful article, very well articulated. I concurr on the slippery slope and dangerous move that deplatforming and censoring contrarian expert opinions entail.
The thought of Dr. Jay Battacharya on the damage done to children hit too close to home. Virtual school for many children was a poor substitute to in person education.
There's also the concept of immunity gap: Because children were in virtual schools and in lockdown mode during the first couple years of the covid pandemic, many of them didn't acquire the seasonal immunities that are common on kids. It's no wonder that Flu, RSV, Influenza, Colds came ravaging in the Fall of 2023... Add to the mix that Covid is still around... Like Bastiat said "The seen and the unseen"
Yow. How apt to say that "Putting it in terms parallel to Socrates’s indictment, some have been banned for failing to acknowledge the science that the federal government acknowledges, for introducing new science, and for corrupting Americans." And the rattlesnake ...
If only today's persecutors could see themselves in yesterday's persecutors ...