Former Labradoodle breeder tapped to lead U.S. pandemic task force

[spinbaby]

How am I not surprised?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hhschief-speci-idUSKCN2243CE

[Chemisse]

1. And here I thought they were stalling the tests to keep the numbers down.

When all along it was gross incompetence.

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. Can't it be both?

[FM123]

2. Unusual? Not for the trump administration - the less qualified the better is their motto.

"Harrison, 37, was an unusual choice, with no formal education in public health, management, or medicine and with only limited experience in the fields."

[Bettie]

3. Well, I know I feel SO much safer

oh, wait, no I don't.

[C_U_L8R]

4. An expert in doodlysquat.

Fire the whole bunch. People are dying.

[Vinca]

5. What, no horse show judges available?

[Ilsa]

6. These "leadership" jobs, if they have any

authority of any kind, should have a minimum of specific requirements to qualify to take the position, and there should be oversight. A specific vocabulary is required for certain jobs from day 1. DeVos didn't know it when the Senate subcommittee questioned her. This man doesn't know "doodly-squat", as the above reply stated.

No wonder our federal government can't do its job when the top lacks expertise.

[crickets]

11. Agreed, and I would add that firing non political appointees for political reasons

should also be reigned in with oversight. Just as hiring incompetent idiots is unreasonable, so is firing competent people for doing their jobs.

[Ilsa]

13. Amen to that. nt

[3Hotdogs]

7. Yeah, at least, wasn't McChimp's, Brownie into horses or sum'pin?

Horses is more difficult than dogs.

[Gothmog]

8. I love my dog breeder but this is silly

Link to tweet

[chia]

9. Currently on Wiki, under "other names" it has "the dog breeder"

I can get a gallows humor chuckle out of that edit, while not forgetting my anger at what has been done to this country at the hands of a madman, his sycophant minions, and a largely complicit press who tried so hard to normalize what couldn't be normalized.

Anyone notice how vague his HHS-provided background (replicated on Wiki) is? He "worked in the Department of Health and Human Services," he "has also held positions at other federal agencies."

Doing what?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Harrison_(United_States)
https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/brian-harrison/index.html

[crickets]

12. +1

largely complicit press who tried so hard to normalize what couldn't be normalized