Comments on: “The CDC Doesn’t Have A Funding Problem.”

By: Medical roundup - Overlawyered

Medical roundup - Overlawyered — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:30:04 +0000

[…] federal budget cuts for Ebola [Chris Edwards chart at Cato; Nick Gillespie, Reason; Michael Tanner, earlier] How Firestone, rare multinational firm with a large presence in Liberia, fought the disease […]

By: rxc

rxc — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:17:10 +0000

The whole public health edifice was built on eradicating communicable diseases. Unfortunately, they were too successful, and ran out of diseases, and had to branch out into other perceived threats to justify their existence. Now that a new, very serious disease has emerged from the heart of Africa, they have (1) lost the expertise to deal with it, and (2) have to deal with it in a Brave New World of political correctness that constrains their activities quite a bit.

I really hope that they get their mojo back, because it sounds like this outbreak is not going to stop soon, or without some pretty draconian actions…

By: RLVon

RLVon — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:00:14 +0000

Who is David Harsanyi to decide that “temporary health scares and trendy crusades that often go well beyond any mission it should be pursuing.” ??

Another journalist turn scientist?

By: jimc5499

jimc5499 — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:30:50 +0000

I lived in Jacksonville Florida in the 80’s. I remember the Federal government building a new office building. Somebody had the bright idea to make the building have twice the number of floors that was needed at the time. The idea was to save money by allowing for future expansion in the new building. It took two years to build the building. By the time the building was ready for use, it was already too small.