[Genuine Realist]

My SO in event business has been participating in a daily conference call with the head of a major hotel company she really respects. Today he referenced the leaked CDC guidance and said according to a CDC spokesman, the leaked guidelines were preliminary and still going through approval, so he wasn't ready to conclude there is anything scandalous. I said, "c'mon, I get not wanting to jump to conclusions, but there is no way in hell anyone is leaking that document to the AP without authorization unless there is some very questionable stuff going on in the CDC."

If you can't figure out that scientists and infectious disease experts are being muzzled, I suggest paying attention to a lot more Executive Branch behavior beyond the CDC. Maybe start with the EPA and how hundreds of regulations are being undone that protect health and environmental resources. Or maybe you can check out how the government is now trying to weaken infection control standards in nursing homes.  Or maybe you can look at the fact meat plants have been ordered to stay open and allow sick people to go to work and infect others.

You can say you don't have a problem with this behavior putting people's heath at risk, but don't deny it is happening. Or, to put another way, don't insult the intelligence of others by claiming there is nothing to see here because the person who "blew the whistle" didn't identify themself.  Dr. Bright could do it because he obviously has enough standing to fight and the resources to hire an attorney. Some lower level person at the CDC can't afford legal representation and can't afford to be retaliated against, but they still took a risk to protect the public and should get a lot more deference than "I don't trust people who don't name themselves."

The Washington Post in its five minute summary of news today mentioned that the document hasn't been shelved, but is being revised, because (to paraphrase) it has a 'one-size-fits-all-quality' (my words). I don't know where you get the idea that anyone is being muzzled in the expanding cyberverse, because no one is. Every one speaks, and non one knows who is who, thanks to the universal use of anonymous sources. I think I'll ppst one of my older signatures, that BC will remember: 

In this scherherzerade of one’s thousand one nightinesses, that

sword of certainty which would
indentifide the individuone. . . . . . never falls.

Written back in the 30's, but describes Internet communication to a tee. In any case, silence is not the issue these days. More like cacophony. In any case, the bureaucratic faction got its jabs in. Here's the WP link.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...-document/

[Genuine Realist]

My SO in event business has been participating in a daily conference call with the head of a major hotel company she really respects. Today he referenced the leaked CDC guidance and said according to a CDC spokesman, the leaked guidelines were preliminary and still going through approval, so he wasn't ready to conclude there is anything scandalous. I said, "c'mon, I get not wanting to jump to conclusions, but there is no way in hell anyone is leaking that document to the AP without authorization unless there is some very questionable stuff going on in the CDC."

If you can't figure out that scientists and infectious disease experts are being muzzled, I suggest paying attention to a lot more Executive Branch behavior beyond the CDC. Maybe start with the EPA and how hundreds of regulations are being undone that protect health and environmental resources. Or maybe you can check out how the government is now trying to weaken infection control standards in nursing homes.  Or maybe you can look at the fact meat plants have been ordered to stay open and allow sick people to go to work and infect others.

You can say you don't have a problem with this behavior putting people's heath at risk, but don't deny it is happening. Or, to put another way, don't insult the intelligence of others by claiming there is nothing to see here because the person who "blew the whistle" didn't identify themself.  Dr. Bright could do it because he obviously has enough standing to fight and the resources to hire an attorney. Some lower level person at the CDC can't afford legal representation and can't afford to be retaliated against, but they still took a risk to protect the public and should get a lot more deference than "I don't trust people who don't name themselves."

The Washington Post in its five minute summary of news today mentioned that the document hasn't been shelved, but is being revised, because (to paraphrase) it has a 'one-size-fits-all-quality' (my words). I don't know where you get the idea that anyone is being muzzled in the expanding cyberverse, because no one is. Every one speaks, and non one knows who is who, thanks to the universal use of anonymous sources. I think I'll ppst one of my older signatures, that BC will remember: 

In this scherherzerade of one’s thousand one nightinesses, that

sword of certainty which would
indentifide the individuone. . . . . . never falls.

Written back in the 30's, but describes Internet communication to a tee. In any case, silence is not the issue these days. More like cacophony. In any case, the bureaucratic faction got its jabs in. Here's the WP link.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...-document/