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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 02:04 PM Mar 2021

Joe: The CDC represents the best of this nation. Brilliant minds. Deep faith in science. And a stron


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President Biden
@POTUS
United States government official

The CDC represents the best of this nation. Brilliant minds. Deep faith in science. And a strong commitment to public service. On Friday, Vice President Harris and I stopped by to thank them for all the work they do.

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Joe: The CDC represents the best of this nation. Brilliant minds. Deep faith in science. And a stron (Original Post) soothsayer Mar 2021 OP
Now they do! SheltieLover Mar 2021 #1
K&R Blue Owl Mar 2021 #2
Except when they chose not to. gibraltar72 Mar 2021 #3
CDC bdamomma Mar 2021 #4
The past four years has been extremely difficult for them as they struggled Hortensis Mar 2021 #5
I kinda wish he hadn't said "faith in science". Aristus Mar 2021 #6

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. The past four years has been extremely difficult for them as they struggled
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 04:32 PM
Mar 2021

to do their duty, and to not abandon it to walk away, while Trump with Republican congressional collusion appointed corrupt administrators, ordered the CDC to betray its mission and leadership during a planetary crisis, and wielded it as a political tool.

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
6. I kinda wish he hadn't said "faith in science".
Sun Mar 21, 2021, 05:21 PM
Mar 2021

I think "trust in science" would have been better. Too many right-wingers think science is like religion, abstract, unverifiable, mostly made-up. They think their story of God making the entire Universe in six twenty-four hour days 6,000 years ago is truer than science.

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