If the best people were leaving, would you join? > [...]Tom Frieden stepped down in January. [O]ne of the most crucial public health positions in the government given the CDC's role in tracking and stopping infectious disease outbreaks in the [US]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/19/nearly-700-vacancies-at-cdc-because-of-trump-administration-hiring-freeze/ …
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Do you think perpetually in-flux organizational hierarchies may produce disorder? "The Trump admin is slower to fill jobs and has higher turnover than any administration we have records for..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/its-way-too-many-as-vacancies-pile-up-in-trump-administration-senators-grow-concerned/2019/02/03/c570eb94-24b2-11e9-ad53-824486280311_story.html …pic.twitter.com/QSDaoS801M
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Even if you support the view that the "government should be run like a business" do you think "You're fired! lmao" may work only as reality-TV punchline, and not for managing the resources of a large corporation, let alone an institution as large as the government?pic.twitter.com/kc2UPSDSEJ
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Do you think sabotage has systemic consequences? > Many employees have already found new jobs and left the agency. [...] morale at the Washington office has plummeted, mistrust of leadership has grownhttps://www.govexec.com/workforce/2019/12/few-blm-employees-agree-relocate-interior-attempts-ease-pain-those-it-will-fire/161895/ …
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By all means, criticize the CDC et al. for their response — especially testing which has been a fucking disaster. But of your criticism includes "derp government agencies derp" it may be worth remembering that chaos damage and starve the beast are both deliberate GOP tactics.
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Everything was working exactly as intended. It's just that you don't win the game of chicken with something like a virus. So now we all crash together.
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