On: How the CDC’s restrictive testing guidelines hid the coronavirus epidemic

[nikhizzle]

My concern here is that bad decisions were made early on in the US, and there will be no accountability.

What do mechanisms for accountability here look like? Will they be used?

Edit: And more importantly how will we prevent theses same mistakes from happening again?

[rflrob → nikhizzle]

Congressional hearings are one big way to hold the executive branch publicly accountable. Then, there’s the election.

My sense is that a lot of the bad decisions don’t necessarily rise to the level of negligence, so civil/criminal penalties are unlikely.

[quietthrow → rflrob]

Are congressional hearing just a tame way of public shaming? Or is there more to it. I feel it’s just a slap on the wrist most of the time.