Follow the Data, They Said, and Then Hid It
brownstone.org
brownstone.org
Quick skim - https://brownstone.org/tag/public-health/
A partisan viewpoint is pretty explicitly stated:
> The motive force of Brownstone Institute is the global crisis created by policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. That trauma revealed a fundamental misunderstanding alive in all countries around the world today, a willingness on the part of the public and officials to relinquish freedom and fundamental human rights in the name of managing a public health crisis, which was not in fact managed well in most countries. The consequences were devastating and will live in infamy.
For what specific reason beyond partisanship should we dismiss this?
Pointing out others' partisanship without making actual arguments seems awfully partisan, too. Partisan but empty.
Sure, the New York Times is a highly partisan source, but it's one that tends to back the CDC blindly, not one that's known for campaigning against the CDC.
In this instance, I would be surprised if Hanlon's razor weren't enough to explain all of this. But instead, they're attributing it to malice.
Is the CDC successfully conspiring to hide tons of data from the public with no whistleblowers and no leaks to the contrary? OR is the CDC an incompetent organization that can't be trusted to collect something as simple as a little disease data?
If I had to guess, I would guess that the CDC is understaffed, and working hard to pump out this data as fast as they can, and it's just hard to comb through with the kind of granularity they'd like to get out. Because, you know, I've worked at a job and that's the kind of stuff that happens at work...
So much for my leftists, I guess.