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My first thought when I glanced at the ironic headline trumpeting the “growing sense of despair” at the CDC was how well it paralleled Americans’ growing sense of despair during the pandemic, a sense of despair that deepened every single time the CDC issued its next politically motivated health decree or mandate. ...

In a rare flash of self-awareness, another one of yesterday’s trio of articles concluded by unintentionally summarizing the CDC’s problem with politics:

Conservatives argue that government workers - many of whom
Mr. Trump derides as members of the "deep state" looking to
undermine his agenda - had accumulated too much power in
recent years, making decisions about the Covid-19 pandemic that
were unpopular among those on the right and viewed by them as
highly political.

Following that eye-popping paragraph, the Times wrapped the article by quoting Catholic University law professor Joel Alicea, who explained, “By making executive officials removable at will by the president, the Constitution ensures political accountability for them to the American people.”

See? They know what’s really causing all this. Accountability. But they don’t want to engage with those real arguments, preferring instead to battle slogans and strawmen with buzzwords like “authoritarianism” and “no kings.” And ironically, everything the Times reported in its three articles about Democrats’ and CDC employees’ response merely reinforced how politicized the massive health bureaucracy has become, even while Americans’ health has steadily worsened.

“There’s a lot of trouble at C.D.C.,” Secretary Kennedy said, “and it’s going to require getting rid of some people over the long term in order for us to change the institutional culture.” Hopefully. And he echoed the same point: “Anybody who lived through Covid saw all these bizarre recommendations that were not science-based, all the misinformation.”

When the senators confabulate over “the science,” what they really mean is the armature of medical authority that has enabled the money-flow to their campaign committees (and eventually to their own bank accounts.) It’s that very scaffold of authority that has collapsed. Why? Because the medical authorities lied over and over about the Covid-19 episode, and especially about the vaccines, which were never properly tested, and were neither safe nor effective.

Your own doctors got paid extravagantly to push the vaccine. The so-called Pfizer Papers, collected, collated, and analyzed by Naomi Wolf’s organization (because nobody else would do it) showed the sloppiness of the whole process behind the vaccines’ development and release, and the pharma companies’ evasion of responsibility for the damage done. The medical journals lied about everything from the origin of the virus to the efficacy of the vaccine. The CDC campaigned against viable, inexpensive treatments for the virus. The CDC pushed the worthless, gamed PCR tests to jack up the case numbers. The CDC pushed the idiotic mask rules, school closings, business closures, and the vaccine mandates. The hospitals killed people with remdesivir and respirators, and got paid for it! The authority of all these parties is blown, especially the CDC’s — and these perfidious senators have the gall to hide behind this “science”?

Pfizer ... They're the ones that pushed the mandates. They funded grassroots organizations, medical organizations in the United States to push that mandates are necessary and they've made $100 billion in profit.

John Ioannidis also says when it comes to medicine, from his own analysis, the greater the financial interest in a given field, the, the less likely the research findings are to be true. And we're talking about one of the most lucrative products in the history of medicine, which is unsafe and defective and in my view will turn out to be one of the greatest medical mistakes. And in fact the mistake is one thing, but the COVID up and suppression of this information is criminal and people need to understand and treat it that way.

On Fox & Friends this weekend, Kennedy was asked and answered the most important question about the Centers for Disease Control:

ANCHOR: “What would you say is the last great success that our government public health agencies have had?”

RFK JR: “I don't think there have been successes. I think we've seen a 30- or 40-year decline in the agency because it's been infiltrated by the pharmaceutical companies. They’ve made a series of bad decisions. They launched a tsunami of addiction in this country.” ...

And bless him, Secretary Kennedy finally said it out loud, to a national audience. If you think about it, the awful Senate hearing last Thursday was really a miracle, because they are now actually debating these most important national issues— instead of lamely pretending they don’t exist. More, please.

Dr. Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who sounded the alarm about vaccine-induced myocarditis early in the pandemic, said public comments about this issue were “spot on.”

He added:

“Because the main goal of the CDC was to increase vaccination rates, the agency was biased and did not bring forward important safety information on a timely basis.

“The CDC should have installed an independent data safety and monitoring board to meet monthly during the campaign. Likely such a board would have shut down the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine program for excess mortality in January 2021.”