The CDC is locked in a power struggle with key states and agriculture players as it tries to better track the virus and prevent another potential pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is at odds with state officials and the dairy industry over its on-the-ground response to the avian flu outbreak spreading among dairy cows, complicating President Joe Biden’s efforts to track and contain a virus that has the potential to sicken millions of people.
Many farmers don’t want federal health officials on their property. State agriculture officials worry the federal response is sidelining animal health experts at the Agriculture Department, and also that some potential federal interventions threaten to hinder state and local health officials rushing to respond to the outbreaks.
IMHO the .gov does have some responsibility to at least know what is going on and try to make a plan to mitigate it before entire sectors of the economy get wiped out. They can't really do that without inspections of some kind.
That said no one trusts the federal government on any topic related to infectious diseases.
Maybe don’t lie and manipulate the population the next time around.
The real and well founded fear is that is exactly what will happen when it's politicized.
.Gov- we found avian flu. We will be back tomorrow to eradicate your herd.
6 months later.....
.Gov- Sorry, turns out our tests were faulty.....It's a shame about your cows.
2 years later......
.Gov- Now that we have eradicated all cows and everyone is eating crickets we have found that avian flu doesn't pose the risk we initially thought. Unfortunately the cricket flu is making us switch everyone to mealworms.
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