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Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] _stranger_ 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] stopdropandprole 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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 precisely when they're needed (which it turns out, is actually all the time). even when no diseases are breaking out, they are developing plans and strategies for the next event. we need these experts.