You remember the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, right? The CDC is the government agency that told us to mask up and stay six feet apart during the COVID pandemic. The gaggle of bureaucrats who colluded with teachers unions to close schools. The gang of doctors and scientists who pushed vaccines that didn’t measure up to promises and then quietly updated damaging data.
Yeah, that CDC — the one that destroyed its own credibility.
Some of the same Follow the Science™ crew is in a lather over the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Monarez on Wednesday after she refused to resign due to disagreements over vaccine policy. According to her lawyers, she “refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives.”
She’s fighting her firing, (plausibly) claiming that Kennedy does not have the authority to fire her.
HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill will take over as interim head, allowing Kennedy to proceed with his review of federal vaccine policy.
When RFK was nominated in November, I expressed reservations about his stance on vaccines and other issues on which he’s, frankly, a crank. The lifelong Democrat often falls into the category of asking good questions but providing questionable answers. His advocacy for and moves on nutrition are welcome, but he’s anything but a conservative or a limited-government operator, and he arguably has a poor understanding of the government apparatus he leads.
For his part, O’Neill has previously said, “I’m very strongly pro-vaccine, I’m an adviser to a vaccine company, [and] I support the CDC vaccine schedule.”
I’m not here to litigate vaccines, though. What interests me is that leftists are still advancing the narrative that they, and they alone, adhere to “the science.”
Four CDC career officials coordinated their resignations on Wednesday to protest Monarez’s firing — Chief Medical Officer Deb Houry; Dan Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Jen Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology; and Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
For purely research purposes, let’s take a look at one of these scientific geniuses. Daskalakis declared that RFK’s moves “do not reflect scientific reality” and that the CDC had reached an “unfettered situation where undue influence and ideology would drive the science.” That would be a shame, wouldn’t it, Demetre?
Well, that’s just what happened to Daskalakis, who, by the way, is a Satanist.
In his resignation letter, Daskalakis makes a point of using “he/him” pronouns and decrying the danger posed to “pregnant people.” He was Joe Biden’s monkeypox czar, which is interesting because Daskalakis is homosexual and monkeypox was primarily a homosexual affliction. No wonder the CDC avoided that science. In fact, he proclaimed on national television that the Biden administration “supports peoples’ joy as opposed to calling them ‘risky,’” adding, “One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.” In other words, he was defending homosexual orgies. According to The Daily Caller, “Daskalakis once ran HIV screenings out of a Manhattan [sadism and masochism] club and gave vaccines in drag at sex clubs.”
Daskalakis insisted in his resignation that he was standing up to “fascist forces,” despite participating in the fascism of the Rainbow Mafia.
Oddly enough, Leftmedia stories that go to great lengths to discredit RFK don’t mention these things when quoting Daskalakis’s self-righteous indignation. But I’m not buying the “Because Science” excuses from the BDSM homo Satanist.
Back to Kennedy, he was absolutely right when he said on Thursday, “The agency is in trouble, and we need to fix it, and we are fixing it. And it may be that some people should not be working there anymore.”
Firing Monarez also upset Senator Bernie Sanders, who serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. “It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job,” Sanders said. In July, he voted against confirming her in the first place.
Kennedy is one of Trump’s team of disruptors whose primary job is to upend the status quo in Washington. Too many career bureaucrats are actually left-wing activists, and it’s high time they were ousted or self-deported from government.
That will lead to PR headaches as the Leftmedia goes to bat for fellow leftists. Even a couple of GOP senators expressed concern about Monarez’s firing. It will also result in some messes that probably should have been avoided in favor of more constructive ideas and plans.
I suspect, however, that the Trump administration will weather the storm and continue fighting hard to dismantle the discredited establishment via whatever methods seem opportune.
That is, after all, why Donald Trump won in November.
