Kicking down and kissing up: Signs of a classic authoritarian

[joshcryer]

111. That's the problem, you call bureaucrats "elites."

The CDC was possibly wrong about the skin on the throat being OK, but recommending that they cover it with tape, so what? What are the nurses going to do while the hospital orders hoods? Not treat their patients? That's what your line of reasoning boils down to. Should the CDC have told them not to treat the patient until they were able to get hoods? If they had the resources they could've brought in a team who had the hoods, no?

Instead of blaming who is rightly at fault, Republicans and anyone who wants to gut agencies like the CDC, we blame the "higher ups" who are no more in power than anyone else. What are the higher ups going to do? Again, tell the nurses not to treat the patient when they don't have the hoods?

Also, it's unclear if the CDCs recommendations are actually at fault. The MSM loves to replay that same old "how it can go wrong" thing, but that is a worst case scenario, if the CDCs guidelines were followed exactly, it is very possible nothing would've gone wrong. We don't know because something did go wrong, and that requires both the health care professionals, and the CDC to figure out and adapt to.

Rather we play the blame game instead of the "let's not get it wrong next time," game. We play the "oh, it's airborn!" game, or the "it's way more virulent than we thought" game, causing panic, and, of course, hits on MSM websites and views on their channels.

It's basically moral panic, over a miniscule issue, and it's meant to drive the government, its agencies, and the health care workers under the bus. And btw, that blog you linked? That underscores my point quite well.

we have way more Dallas Presbyterians in this country than we have Emorys

No, people are fallible and the agencies like the CDC that are supposed to help them use proper procedures have their funding continually gutted.