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      Corporations do this to maximize profit. The US government is supposed to maximize helping citizens, it’s what we pay for. The U.S. government is essentially a non profit.

      For the US government, profit-motivated strategy is inappropriate.

      We need the people they fired to be doing their job even when there isn’t a pandemic. Having these people in staff is exact the same as hiring firefighters and cops, they’re for responding to emergencies. And just like firefighters and cops, they do investigation, training and research when there isn’t an emergency.

      These people should not have been culled. Doing so when there isn’t an imminent pandemic is stupid enough, but sacking them when there’s already several outbreaks in progress is monumentally stupid. IIts like fireing the firefighters as they’re driving to the fire. It’s the exact kind of move I’d expect a short term thinker who has never dealt with personal consequences to act. It’s an incredibly idiotic thing to do.

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        thank you! you get it.

        people with decades of experience responding to communicable illnesses have been getting fired without cause or driven out of government just for some conservative publicity stunt.

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      What corporation? I thought we were talking about a government agency tasked with the safeguarding of American food & agriculture. You don’t randomly “cull” departments that are in the middle of handling a national emergency.

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      even corporations wouldn’t be stupid enough to fire people working on H5 response at the onset of a possible pandemic. If you end up removing people in critical roles then you delay response to a situation where weeks matter.

      • Again if u read the science then u would understand most experts in the field are not significantly concerned about a pandemic in the near term. And u would also know that we should be applying the lessons from covid19 such as travel restrictions being mostly ineffective and cheap easily accessible testing is far more important than anticipated, that traditional anti viral medication is still effective etc etc.

        If they haven’t learned from and can’t apply the science from the last pandemic then they aren’t doing their job.

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          most experts in the field are not significantly concerned about a pandemic in the near term

          This, but the opposite. This whole thread has been you saying stupid things for your own emotional needs. You know, if this is just your defense mechanisms speaking, you’d get just as much out of it if after composing your comment, you clicked “Cancel”.