The article is super-friendly to business interests. The final paragraph is supposed to be hopeful but it gave me a knot in my stomach. Politicians on every level from Biden, federal, state, and local will do what they always do - mix politics into science. And when you mix the two - you get 100% politics.
Despite the stumbles early in the response, Poulsen says, there’s still time to put an end to the dairy outbreak before it becomes a bigger issue for the industry as a whole or for the general population. “We have the best veterinarians and public health scientists in the world,” he says. “We can do it. We just need the funding and the political will.”
