One of the big surprises of 2020 for me was finding out that the CDC had not only become highly politicized (which you might have guessed), but actually useless at its core competency, during the singular crisis for which the organization was designed.
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The optimist in me hoped the rationale was closer to "we're doing all this ludicrous shit, because we've got too much money and power, since the core matter of infectious disease prevention is already well in hand."
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Not foolish - just have to break out of the frame where they try to accomplish their official mission and look at the incentives for the individual actors. No one can compel them to serve the institution's mission so if they get personal benefit from doing otherwise, they will.
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