CDC Reset

After several years of bungling, Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced yesterday that her agency needs a reset. In an email to CDC employees, Walensky wrote, “For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations.”

That’s putting it mildly. You failed miserably!

Walensky says she wants to reform and reorganize the agency. Consider me skeptical. The Swamp isn’t known for reforming itself.

Throughout the pandemic, it seemed that the CDC’s main priority was preventing communist China from being blamed for the virus. And that wasn’t the only debate they shut down. In their persistent demand to “follow the science,” they silenced other scientists who questioned their extreme tactics.

We knew before the pandemic that quarantines and lockdowns generally don’t work. But if you are going to use them, you quarantine sick people and those most vulnerable, not healthy people. The CDC locked down or quarantined the whole country! 

We had to rely on the Chinese communists for personal protection equipment and COVID tests because the CDC botched its initial testing kits.

The CDC vetted its guidance through the far-left, hyper-political teachers unions. 

Remember wiping down your groceries?  Yet, every indication was that it was an airborne virus. 

The CDC has 21,000 employees and a budget of $12 billion. But it did not invent the COVID tracker that the whole world relied on. An engineering professor and a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University did that.

Remember when we weren’t allowed to criticize Dr. Fauci because that was “attacking science”?

Did the CDC really believe its own advice when it recommended shutting down the economy? Well, I suspect there were some swamp creatures who knew the Trump economy was booming and that Trump was well on his way to a second term. So, they took him down any way they could, no matter the cost to the country.

And, of course, all the pandemic panic was used to justify massive changes -- and in some cases illegal changes (here, here and here) -- to our election laws.

Can it really be a coincidence that every major policy dictate coming out of the CDC was not only wrong, but hurt the country, hurt the economy and hurt President Trump? 

But even after Dr. Walensky’s “mea culpa,” the CDC is still pushing jabs on toddlers. There’s massive resistance because: 1) the CDC has no credibility left, and 2) there’s no legitimate reason for it. 

The CDC, like every other major agency, needs to be shut down, fumigated and cut back.