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@musicman @strypey For what it’s worth, I work for the US government and I wasn’t even aware that there ever was a Pandemic Response Team until 3-4 weeks ago, despite $EMPLOYER having a minor role in the response to the 2009 Influenza A H1N1 pandemic response. From what I’ve read, PRT was always too underfunded to be an effective response.
Though I disagree with abolishing them, if they were never going to have the resources to mount an effective response if and when needed, keeping them makes no sense.
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@musicman @strypey Also, in the process of reading about it, I came across https://nu.federati.net/url/266568 [wapo]
Turn off #JavaScript / #JabbaShit and their “turn off your adblocker” garbage won’t interfere.
There are still a number of places where I saw “underfunded and ineffective”, but this is someone that worked there (possibly during the time when Trump is said to have shut down PRT).