And to give a more specific example of what I mean:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... rc404=trueThe Geneva-based World Health Organization, meanwhile, had already delivered 250,000 diagnostic tests designed and manufactured by a German lab to 70 laboratories around the world. Academic and hospital researchers including Greninger eagerly experimented with the German lab design early on and found it workable, but U.S. health officials continued on their own path. “To our knowledge, no discussions occurred between WHO and CDC (or other USG agencies) about WHO providing COVID-19 tests to the U.S.,” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told The Post.
Now we can blame trump obviously, but the fact is the WHO had a working test and yet the bureaucrats at the CDC continued to push their own design, which didn't work. This is just absolute arrogance, of course we Americans can do it better. Nevermind there is already a working test, we will do something different. And they f**k it up, apparently in a way that even academic and amateurs expected. We think of the CDC as being on this holy grail, in fact it seems to have performed worse than its counterparts across the globe, in large part because it was too arrogant to just use WHO's working test.
Same thing with the FAA. They embarrassed themselves with boeing, foreigners no longer trust the FAA because they were caught with their pants down, approving a plant that just nose dives into the ground. Come on. I realise it sounds like high standards, and it is, but if you are going to be the leading agency in your field, you need to be the best. You don't get to be the leading agency just because you are an American agency.
These things sounds minor but on things like medicine, flight, this was unquestionably the USA's domain and now we have been exposed to the world as clueless, no better than anywhere else and in fact probably one of the worst. It's not just out politicians man, the government is incredibly incompetent and dysfunctional given how wealthy and advanced the US is.