The health secretary, appearing before two separate congressional committees, was grilled about slashes to disease research, maternal health and the U.S. measles outbreak.
To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they’re called) - that’s a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn’t answer questions about clustered datastorage, that’s what he has people like me for.
However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he’s right in that particular statement.
That’s like saying he shouldn’t be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You’re right, but it’s also not really the point.
He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the “engineers” and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.
Which he is not doing… Which has resulted in a body count… Which should at the very least cost him his job…
But if anyone thinks that’s going to happen, they’ve not been paying attention.
*(I don’t know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It’s some technical thing to do with vaccines)
Yes, that’s pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.
Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.
Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn’t need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information
But…isn’t the point that you need to know at least both? There should be thousands of people in the venn diagram between doctors and managers enough people to become health secretary: senior doctors, senior healthcare managers. Certainly not this dipshit.
To be fair, I think it holds true for any head of department of health (or whatever they’re called) - that’s a position that calls for organizational skills and not a medical doctorate. In the same way my project manager doesn’t answer questions about clustered datastorage, that’s what he has people like me for.
However, leading JFKJrs department also calls for common sense and skepticism towards conspiracy theories, two qualities he severely lacks. But at least he’s right in that particular statement.
That’s like saying he shouldn’t be expected to give advice on Seroconversion kinetics*. You’re right, but it’s also not really the point.
He, like your manager, is responsible for taking the knowledge of the “engineers” and turning that into practical advice and/or legislation for the public.
Which he is not doing… Which has resulted in a body count… Which should at the very least cost him his job…
But if anyone thinks that’s going to happen, they’ve not been paying attention.
*(I don’t know what that is btw, that comes from wikipedia. It’s some technical thing to do with vaccines)
Yes, that’s pretty much the 2nd half of my comment.
Also, my understanding is that seroconversion kinetics is about how fast your body starts making antibodies, how strong the resp9nse is and how it changes over time.
Lol, that was maybe a bad example then. I was just looking for a technical term that the general public wouldn’t need to care about, but that all sounds like reasonably important information
You give me too much credit. I got curious and started googling, lol.
But…isn’t the point that you need to know at least both? There should be thousands of people in the venn diagram between doctors and managers enough people to become health secretary: senior doctors, senior healthcare managers. Certainly not this dipshit.