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Once again, our governing “elites” are illustrating their cluelessness about just how low the public’s opinion of them has sunk, and why.
The latest example involves Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who rage-quit his post last week after his bosses, noting the pandemic “emergency” is long over, ended special rules allowing for broad use of the COVID-19 shot.
“This is where fascism lives,” Daskalakis angrily declared as he and other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials stalked off their jobs.
“Fascism” seems to be this administration’s most overdiagnosed ailment, applied with abandon to anything the left doesn’t like.
But Daskalakis’, uh, fevered response is exactly what you don’t want from a public health official.
In fact, given widespread public doubts about the COVID jab and the general debacle of the CDC’s COVID response, the last thing we need is a hysterical and politically extreme figure in charge of immunizations.
We need someone steady, sensible, respectable and respected in that job — but what we got with Daskalakis was another lefty theater kid putting on a show.
This is a man who made himself famous by posing on a magazine cover wearing a leather pentagram harness, and showed off his bondage gear collection in numerous publicly distributed photos.
Daskalakis ran the Biden administration’s weak response to the monkeypox outbreak — pushing to rename the illness “mpox” for reasons of political correctness.
Although he and other government experts were aware that the disease was spreading mostly via sex parties in the gay community, they chose to downplay that fact for fear of “stigma” and pretend that every American was equally at risk.
“Political correctness and a desire not to offend drove the messaging and public health response,” the Oversight Project, a government watchdog, found in 2023: “Officials were primarily concerned with not stigmatizing (mpox carriers), the exact opposite of the COVID response.”
Yes: During COVID, the CDC ordered us to stand aside as our loved ones died alone in hospitals, and made us postpone or downsize weddings and funerals. --->READ MORE HERE
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The HHS secretary blamed decades of bureaucratic inertia and politicized science for eroding public trust in the health agency
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that the American public has lost faith in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and outlined his plan to rebuild trust in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.
Kennedy blamed decades of bureaucracy, politicized science and "mission creep" for eroding the CDC’s core role of protecting Americans from infectious disease and squandering public confidence.
Kennedy pointed to the CDC’s response to COVID-19 as an example of dysfunction that "produced irrational policy" and further eroded trust in the agency.
"Cloth masks on toddlers, arbitrary 6-foot distancing, boosters for healthy children, prolonged school closings, economy-crushing lockdowns, and the suppression of low-cost therapeutics in favor of experimental and ineffective drugs," he wrote. "The toll was devastating."
Although some may see the agency's missteps during the pandemic as a one-off mistake, Kennedy asserted that this failure was "no anomaly," citing declining life expectancy and declining trust from the public as evidence.
"Trust has collapsed: Only one-third of health care workers participated in the 2023-24 fall COVID booster program, and fewer than 10% of children under 12 received boosters in 2024-25. The American people no longer believe the CDC has their best interests at heart," he wrote.
On an operational level, the HHS secretary was critical of the CDC's budget allocation and staffing. He ripped the agency for having only half of its total budget support its infectious-disease mission, and for the fact that fewer than 1 in 10 employees are epidemiologists—which he blames for the CDC's "disastrous" pandemic response. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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