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Disgruntled bureaucrat goes public. It's hard to opine from a distance.


What is crystal clear is that Trump's re-election depends on how well the C-19 crisis is handled. He knows that. To side immediately with the bureaucrat makes no more sense than siding automatically with Trump.

Motivations matter not a whit.  What matters is actual performance.  BARDA was doing a lot not just to fund a bunch of efforts around fighting COVID-19 but to help coordinate the research, and to encourage best practices.  For example, BARDA is funding J&J's vaccine development efforts, including the manufacture of large quantities of vaccine at risk, so that if it works J&J is ready to deploy immediately rather than having to ramp up production.  A leadership change at this time certainly brings a lot of risks with it, whatever the motivations.

BC

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I just deleted a bunch of posts that weren't even attempting to be about covid. If you want to pick random partisan fights there's the entire rest of the internet for it.

If this drifts again I'm just locking it.

Please no more posts about Supreme Court confirmation hearings that have nothing to do with COVID-19 or the response to it.

BC

[BostonCard]

Disgruntled bureaucrat goes public. It's hard to opine from a distance.


What is crystal clear is that Trump's re-election depends on how well the C-19 crisis is handled. He knows that. To side immediately with the bureaucrat makes no more sense than siding automatically with Trump.

Motivations matter not a whit.  What matters is actual performance.  BARDA was doing a lot not just to fund a bunch of efforts around fighting COVID-19 but to help coordinate the research, and to encourage best practices.  For example, BARDA is funding J&J's vaccine development efforts, including the manufacture of large quantities of vaccine at risk, so that if it works J&J is ready to deploy immediately rather than having to ramp up production.  A leadership change at this time certainly brings a lot of risks with it, whatever the motivations.

BC

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I just deleted a bunch of posts that weren't even attempting to be about covid. If you want to pick random partisan fights there's the entire rest of the internet for it.

If this drifts again I'm just locking it.

Please no more posts about Supreme Court confirmation hearings that have nothing to do with COVID-19 or the response to it.

BC