China admitting a mistake here is miles ahead of the US. Trump implements the China travel ban against the advice of the "scientists" and he gets slammed for being anti-science.https://twitter.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1239399258689806336 …
It means the elected president doesn't get control of the people who allegedly work for him merely for being elected - the process of him gaining that control is functionally identical to a coup d'etat. When you have to stage a coup to gain power you don't start with the CDC.
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If you can shut down air travel against professional advice, there's a lot you can do otherwise too
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There are costs to defying professional advice and *even though he was right* they're extracting the toll on him. He's not without power entirely but he's not in actual command - no one is. Larry Summers described it as the "promiscuous distribution of veto power".
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