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  • scott
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    • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
    • 15799
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    Political Influence at CDC is "Longstanding Best Practice"

    he White House on Tuesday downplayed criticism from conservatives that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sought input from a top teachers union in developing its school reopening guidelines.

    "It’s actually longstanding best practice for the CDC to engage with organizations, groups that are going to be impacted by guidance and recommendations issued by the agency," press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. "It doesn't mean they are taking everything they want, or even a percentage of what they want."

    "But it’s important to understand the implementation components," Psaki continued. "They do so to ensure that recommendations are feasible and that they adequately address the safety and well-being of the individuals the guidance is aimed to protect. So, the CDC engaged with around 50 stakeholders that are on the front lines in this pandemic and have requisite perspective for the guidance."

    The New York Post reported over the weekend on communications that showed CDC officials were in touch with with leaders from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second largest teachers union in the country.

    The documents showed the union urging the CDC to issue guidelines that could be adjusted for areas where there is high transmission of more contagious coronavirus variants, as well as recommendations allowing teachers deemed to be high-risk the ability to continue working remotely. Both suggestions were adopted by the CDC in its final guidance on school reopenings, which was released in February.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...-in-developing
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    • scott
      Go-to Guru
      • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
      • 15799
      #2
      It's interesting to note that previously we were told that the CDC was the hallmark of independence and intellectual purity. "Follow the science," we're told.

      Then when political influence is uncovered, "well, we always do this..."

      And this is another of the many good reasons why the CDC should not study gun issues.
      "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
      -John Locke

      "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
      -Newman

      "Grievance groups are playing King of the Hill."
      -Newman

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        • Celeste Chalfonte
          apostate
          • Saturday, October 5, 2013
          • 27897
          #3
          Originally posted by scott View Post
          It's interesting to note that previously we were told that the CDC was the hallmark of independence and intellectual purity. "Follow the science," we're told.

          Then when political influence is uncovered, "well, we always do this..."

          And this is another of the many good reasons why the CDC should not study gun issues.
          The CD needs to focus on disease control. Arguably, guns, automobiles, weather (not necessarily climate), and housing are public health issues, but none of those (other than, tangentially and largely theoretically, housing) concern disease control.

          I think it makes sense to get input from affected populations as to implementation of some disease control directives. A failure to do consult actual frontline health care workers early in the AIDS epidemic led public health officials to recommend measures that were impractical and actually more dangerous than existing practice. So, I wouldn't have a problem with CDC consulting teachers, school bus drivers, AND parents about, for example, the practicalities of teaching while masked, keeping masks on small children, etc. However, decisions about whether such measures are necessary and/or effective should be made by health experts only.
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            • scott
              Go-to Guru
              • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
              • 15799
              #4
              Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
              The CD needs to focus on disease control. Arguably, guns, automobiles, weather (not necessarily climate), and housing are public health issues, but none of those (other than, tangentially and largely theoretically, housing) concern disease control.

              I think it makes sense to get input from affected populations as to implementation of some disease control directives. A failure to do consult actual frontline health care workers early in the AIDS epidemic led public health officials to recommend measures that were impractical and actually more dangerous than existing practice. So, I wouldn't have a problem with CDC consulting teachers, school bus drivers, AND parents about, for example, the practicalities of teaching while masked, keeping masks on small children, etc. However, decisions about whether such measures are necessary and/or effective should be made by health experts only.
              Agreed.

              Also, they didn't consult with teachers - they consulted with teacher union bureaucrats.
              "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
              -John Locke

              "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
              -Newman

              "Grievance groups are playing King of the Hill."
              -Newman

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                • Frostbit
                  But only once
                  • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
                  • 22330
                  #5
                  Our Muni government uses the CDC as the excuse for all their decisions as if the "Pandemic" reaction can't be decided on locally. And now we are in a State that is an Island thanks to Canada and their panic porn decisions.
                  If it pays, it stays

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                    • Lady Marva
                      Senior Member
                      • Wednesday, June 17, 2015
                      • 13321
                      #6
                      CDC is a very large, very rich federal government agency. Anyone really expect it not to be political...............

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