Very good, Oddball: there is no such Deep State as the conspiracy theorists believe.
There are millions of unelected bureaucrats who do as they goddamn well please, with no repercussions, accountability, or any way to remove them, for their insubordination and malicious disregard for the constraints that they're supposed to be living under....The CDC is proving this right out in the open.
That is the "deep state" and it's operating right under your nose.
You're right. The CDC is a PRIME example of how Trump is totally ******* things up.
The CDC WAS the premiere public health organization in the world. Emphasis on WAS. The CDC exists to give the White House the BEST public health advice and to help formulate public health policy. They do that job in an apolitical manner. Regardless of who is in the White House, the professionals at the CDC are dedicated to keeping Americans healthy, and to dealing with any disease outbreaks.
More than a year ago, Donald Trump fired the head of the CDC for "disloyalty" and brought in Dr. Redfield - Trump's own hand picked man. Redfield's appointment was controversial. He lacks both the background and the experience and he holds controversial views, outside the mainstream of public health.
Then Trump failed to follow ANY of the advice given to him by the CDC. Any of the public health guidelines or restrictions they tried to encourage, Trump refused to do. The CDC wanted the White House to fly the Japanese cruise ship passengers home on two separate planes: one carrying those who had tested postive, and the other with the people who tested negative. The White House refused all suggestions from the CDC and Trump did it his way.
All the passengers came home on one plane, no masks, or PPE for anyone. It's a long flight back to California from Japan. 10.5 hours of sharing reprocessed pressured air with people you KNOW have the virus.
They were met at the military base when they landed by local DHS staff, who processed their paperwork with no social distancing and no PPE's. The CDC refused to sign off on any of this and the entire enterprise went ahead without their sanction.
The CDC is constantly having to clean up Trump's messes, and they've done questionable things to appease him - changing guidelines, being chief among them. Trump simply refuses to follow the advice of the CDC, and the results are obvious. 200,000 dead and the worst outbreak in the world.
The return of the cruise ship passengers was an unmitigated disaster and lead to the first major outbreak in California as the DHS workers who processed the passengers