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Was he able to take anyone to the other side with him?

Totally counterproductive to kill a policeman or random office drone.

But I understand the guy's frustration with the Fauci mafia posing as government. Government legitimacy comes from upholding justice, and we still have not seen any prosecutions for the worst crime against humanity ever.

Totally counterproductive to kill a policeman or random office drone.

But I understand the guy's frustration with the Fauci mafia posing as government. Government legitimacy comes from upholding justice, and we still have not seen any prosecutions for the worst crime against humanity ever.

You can only go after those who you have access to.

Dr.Celine Gounder’s 49 year old soccer journalist husband Grant Wahl was also almost certainly vaccinated, and he was reporting on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. While it’s possible for a 49 year old to have a ruptured aortic aneurysm, it would also be a relatively rare occurrence and even rarer to die from it suddenly without warning. However, COVID-19 Vaccines damage blood vessels and cause aneurysms.

Here’s the short version: one of the pandemic’s least-known worst offenders tried to use the recent CDC tragedy to whitewash her bloodstained record. We’re not biting, doc.

Dr. Céline Gounder is an infectious-disease specialist and NYU clinical assistant professor. She sat on President Neurodeficiency’s ‘COVID-19 Advisory Board’ during the initial 2020–21 transition. She personally helped craft the policies that shuttered down businesses, declared citizens “non-essential,” imposed mask mandates, and pushed mass vaccination like she was setting hotdogs at a football game.

In countless interviews and op-eds, Céline scolded Americans to “follow the science” and warned that “refusing vaccination endangers others,” treating all disagreement as a direct threat to public-health rather than any legitimate debate. For a time, she was the Administration’s ugly face of approved pandemic-era messaging, once declaring in The Atlantic that “refusing vaccination endangers others,” framing vaccine reluctance not as a personal choice but a societal threat.

You may recall that, in late 2022, her husband, high-profile sports journalist Grant Wahl, 49, died suddenly and unexpectedly at the World Cup from what she claimed was an unrelated ruptured aortic aneurysm — definitely not from the mRNA shots she championed. Grant’s death is obviously (understandably) a sore subject for Céline, and she wasted a paragraph re-litigating it this morning.

She started her op-ed this morning darkly warning about the implications (as she sees them) of the CDC shooting last week. She was light on details, so I’ll fill you in.

Last Friday afternoon, 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White riddled the CDC’s Atlanta campus with more than 40 bullet holes, killing DeKalb County police officer David Rose — a 33-year-old former Marine and expectant father — before being found dead in a nearby CVS. Moments earlier, CDC security had refused him entry. Investigators say White had taken the covid shots and later became fixated on the belief they caused his depression and suicidal thoughts — concerns his father had flagged to authorities beforehand.

Media instantly branded him an “anti-vaxxer” —even in headlines— despite the fact that he literally got vaccinated. That’s not anti-vaxx; that’s I followed-the-science-and-regretted-it. And, in a move Baghdad Bob would have admired, reporters then tried to pin the violence on HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy. NBC quoted laid-off CDC staff blaming Kennedy for officer Rose’s death, and calling for the Secretary’s resignation.

Céline went further than NBC, essentially blaming everyone skeptical of ‘science’ for the CDC tragedy. That gave her the chance to start retconning her pandemic positions. During the pandemic, she now claims, “I explained that recommendations might change as new evidence emerged.” I could find no evidence of her ‘explanation’ before 2024, unless she meant defending inconsistent government messaging after people complained.

But then she made a teeny admission: “But I could have been clearer that prioritizing saving lives could mean sacrificing other social and economic goods.”

No kidding.

Anyway, and most guffaw-inducing, taking the exact opposite position she’d had during the pandemic, Celine generously allowed —now!— that, “Science is a method for formulating and testing hypotheses, not a fixed set of facts.” You can’t ‘follow’ a method of testing hypotheses. After diligently dismissing half of Americans as non-essential persons during the pandemic, Céline now argues science “must be protected from political or commercial capture.” ...

Céline hasn’t changed her political gameswomanship, only her jersey. In 2020, she told the public to “follow the science”— because her team controlled it. The “science” meant whatever Biden’s public health machine said it meant. Now, with Republicans running federal public health, she’s flipped the switch: suddenly, science is “just a method,” easily “captured” by politics, and you shouldn’t take it at face value.

Dr. Gounder has not experienced intellectual growth. She’s shown political loyalty. Whether she’s urging people to kneel at the altar of Science™ or to distrust it entirely depends not on the scientific method, but on who holds the keys to the CDC.

Most ironically, and most dangerously, Céline’s op-ed starts by invoking the image of CDC buildings riddled with bullet holes and a cop dead in the street — all meant to evoke sympathy for “brave public-health scientists under siege.” But then, instead of shoring up trust in the CDC, she spends most of her piece arguing that the agency is now politically compromised, its scientific process under attack, and its leadership untrustworthy under Trump and RFK Jr. ...

So-called ’scientists’ like Céline Gounder think they’re going to oil out by suddenly rediscovering that science is not truth— but only a process. We aren’t going to let them oil out. Not this time.