CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has resigned her post as the head of America’s top public health agency. In honour of her resignation, it’s worth revisiting some of her most obvious disasters. There’s a nearly endless number of possibilities to make Walensky’s list of shame. But here are a few favourites.
Vaccinated People Don’t Get Sick
Soon after taking over her post, she told the public that vaccinated people were not only protected from serious illness and death, but all infection.
“Our data from the CDC today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick, and that it’s not just in the clinical trials, but it’s also in real-world data,” she claimed.
There may never be a more inaccurate statement issued by a public official on any issue. It was utterly incomprehensible at the time, totally unsupported and designed to provoke mandates.
Soon afterwards, real-world data confirmed she was completely wrong about vaccine efficacy.
Masks Are Effective
One of the most pernicious, inexcusable mistakes was repeatedly telling the public that masks were protective at preventing transmission or infection.
That delusional, evidence-free assertion caused immense harm, leading to states like California issuing pointless, useless mask mandates throughout 2021 and into 2022.
Even more infuriating was that she told Congress that CDC guidance on masking would essentially never change.
That’s correct, no matter what the evidence showed, no matter how many studies disproved masking, Walensky would never stop recommending masks.
Somehow even that undersells just how bad that statement was. Her remarks were said in the context of masking kids, meaning the agency would never be revisiting its guidance on school masking.
Not to mention her desperate defence of masking on planes, which continued even after it was abundantly clear that maskless travel was completely safe.
She also, before Congress, inaccurately dismissed the Cochrane Review on masking to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.
That type of arrogance, hubris and commitment to inaccuracy was a consistent feature of Walensky’s tenure.
Risks of Myocarditis
All of Walensky’s mistakes were harmful and dangerously misleading. But one of the most indefensible was her efforts to downplay concerns over post-vaccine myocarditis.
Following discovery of the side-effect, countries like Sweden worked to limit distribution of the mRNA vaccines to younger people and children. Many experts also recommended potentially changing guidance to suggest just one dose, with research saying complications could be exacerbated by the second dose.
So what did the CDC do in response? Absolutely nothing, of course!
Even after the agency finally acknowledged the risk of myocarditis to young people, Walensky still urged parents to vaccinate kids regardless.
Her endless promotion and refusal to properly frame risks and benefits led to the rapid proliferation of vaccine mandates for young, healthy individuals.
Places like California and Washington, D.C. moved to enforce mandates to attend school, in defiance of scientific evidence and in support of Walensky’s fact-free claims.
Colleges jumped on the bandwagon as well, with university after university falling in line with CDC recommendations.
Turns out, further research showed that dangerous side effects were potentially not as uncommon as the agency claimed.
Great work, Walensky!
How Much Worse Will the CDC Get?
These are just a few of her more obvious mistakes.
Her agency also promoted shoddy study after shoddy study. One graphic put out by the CDC even highlighted a result designed to promote masks that referenced a result that was not statistically significant.
That’s an inexcusable abdication of scientific responsibility. Presenting as meaningful results that don’t reach the threshold of significance is irresponsible misinformation.
But the concerning thing about her resignation is the possibility that her replacement may be even worse.
The Biden administration has repeatedly shown its incompetence. Through their efforts to mandate vaccines for private employers, continue the ban on unvaccinated travellers, hiring Walensky in the first place, and relentless promotion of masks, officials have got virtually every major decision wrong.
Why would they stop now?
Robert Redfield, the former head of the CDC, famously claimed that masks would be more protective than vaccines. And yet his replacement was somehow significantly worse.
Just imagine how much worse it could get in the post-Walensky era.
Even as the pandemic fades, the CDC and the administration have now realised they hold immense power over Americans’ daily lives.
Huge numbers of individuals, influential corporations and administrators will outsource their decision-making to CDC recommendations.
No matter how ineffective people like Walensky have proven to be.
Ian Miller is the author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates. He writes a Substack newsletter, where this article first appeared.
Stop Press: Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson write about Dr. Walensky’s misleading assertions to Congress about the Cochrane review, of which Jefferson was a lead author.
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“risks stifling an individual’s self-expression and self-identification”.
Lockdowns do that VASTLY more, and the AMA support those measures which are totally unsupported by trials.
Every modern agenda is based on nonsense. Our Western civilisation is being destroyed
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Mel Gibson needs to do a movie.
In which the English are responsible for climate change, the oppression of every other ethnic group under the sun and SARS CoV2, renamed in the movie as EngPlague1. The line “They may take away our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!” could be reused with a little editorial adjustment.
Worth a read, in my opinion. Includes:
Possible escalations, in sequential order:
– unvaccinated people are barred from all public places.
– unvaccinated people are barred from work.
– unvaccinated people have their benefits withdrawn.
– unvaccinated people are forcibly vaccinated (likely under the mental health act).
– unvaccinated people are sent to quarantine camps.
– unvaccinated people are murdered.
https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2021/07/collaboration-or-resistance-part-3-scapegoats/?doing_wp_cron=1627890873.6848340034484863281250
Plausible – except for this question – will the vaxxed be healthy enough to go around using violence of the unvaxxed?
There was a suggestion that some vaxx is just purified water
My GP, Dr Mengele, tells me that these are all very commendable policies.
It makes sense when you start to see that this is a holistic takeover of the West, to rid us of pretty much every Judaeo/Christian value that lingers. To begin with it was subtle, covert. Now it is open, brazen. It is actually the religion of the leaders of the world to dismantle any part of society that is pro-family, pro-life, pro-stability, pro-mental health, pro-tolerance, pro-equality of opportunity. All the while they project that we are the cruel, stupid, divisive or racist ones. All the while they project that they are the kindest, most understanding ones, most able to sort out our problems. Until people wake up en masse and realize these corrupt leaders are the ones creating the majority of the problems for us, we will be in this awful grip of manufactured division and strife. These corrupt leaders are lockstep in their appalling values. They have their own people infiltrating everywhere. Some have their fervour. Some are in it for rich reward. Some are leveraged to do a job before they step aside, glad to be left alone. We have been stupid to let them take power so easily. They have been very clever to do it so stealthily over so many decades. They know how to lead. They know how to organize. They know how to replicate themselves. They know how to pass their dirty batons on to the next generation. They do not have goodness or rightness on their side though. And it is past time for their awful empire to end, as all wicked empires do. It’s time for a great reset indeed.
The behaviour of our species is increasingly unnatural, thanks largely to the growing encroachment of technology in our lives and the increasing sophistication of our society.
We live lives that are so completely detached from nature and so conditioned by modern life and social norms that we are losing track of what is natural.
We’ve reached a point where we think we can condition anyone to do anything for the supposed benefit of society, however unnatural. And our capacity to resist these demands is ever weaker because we’re losing track of what is natural and what is social conditioning.
But it’s really a form of psychosis that simply feeds on itself and like most psychoses grows over time. As a society we are slowly going mad.
But these ideas are against every form of human civilisation. I point this out as a Christian. No civilisation of any religion has ever survived on the basis of the assumptions being adopted by many of our leaders.
Huxley was on to it 90 years ago with Brave New World. Even more prescient than Orwell.
I’m not sure they do know how to replicate themselves. In Austria, one of the few countries to record such information, atheists have a catastrophically low birth rate.
Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
Or as St Paul puts it, “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
Yeah, this site’s comment sections are a great example.
I always thought the comment sections (btl) were a great example of free speech.
I thought sex has always been banned from public places
There are significant differences between the sexes which translate into different susceptibility to a number of conditions (as the article states), but also different prevalences of biomarkers which help determine treatment or prognosis of some conditions e.g. HER-2 in female vs. male breast cancer.
You would have thought the AMA would know this – it’s clinically-relevant.
This is a triumph of wokeism over medicine.
What are the AMA doing?
I understood that sex was genetic and binary. Gender however is related to the level of testosterone you are exposed to in the womb, among other factors. This is usually but not always congruent. However this “science” is from long ago . . .
When they finally connect the human brain to AI, what’s left of the human (and humans in general) won’t need to have any form of gender, or a face, or any other individualistic features. They just need to be workable slaves.
It reminds me of the faceless drones in the movie The Blackhole – made into automata by the megalomaniac captain.
‘Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated’
Let’s face it, there are only two sexes and the are easily distinguishable. It’s a well known fact that women have shorter feet than men so that they can stand closer to the kitchen sink! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Hence there is unlikely to be a situation in which someone from one racial or ethnic group is claiming to be from another.”
Give it time. Actually it might well be a good idea, if you’re white to identify with a different racial group; no more accusations of “white privilege”. Pick the group that sits at the intersection of “the most oppressed” and the world’s your oyster.
It’s already happened – Elizabeth Warren self-identified as a native American based on no more than (a maximum) of 1.56% DNA (and as little as 0.097%)!
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/412085-elizabeth-warren-shows-how-unpopular-identity-politics-is
Use to happen often; white boys with dreadlocks faining a West Indian accent
I self identify as a disabled black woman!
Another one: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/584695/Rachel-Dolezal-black-civil-rights-activist-white-resigns
And: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54008495
and identify with a different age group if you’re old… now how do you transition to 21, I wonder…
What will be recorded on birth certificates, then?
He / him
She / her
or
Undecided yet?
First they came for the men.
Then they came for the family.
Now it’s male and female.
It’s war. Just say no.
Yeah, just ignore it. Its bonkers and like most of this stuff (men are evil, white men are really evil etc, etc) really not worth our time getting into. We’ve got better stuff to do.
Much of this nonsense is easily understood based on the observation that the loony left rejects both God and the notion that they’re nothing but mammals.
Perhaps the next thing will be removing the term birth from the certificate. It’s offensive to those delivered by caesarean section.
All part of the plan. All of it. Everything you see now being pushed is the plan. Go in the opposite direction to thwart their pla.
It’s all to make us the “same” soon we will be a number if nonsense like this gets traction. Just what they want
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. But on a serious note, if I were confronted by a consultant who deemed my sex as irrelevant to my medical treatment I’d be out the door like a shot! There have been numerous studies conducted over eons which have neglected to take account of biological sex and women have paid the price for medicines that are inappropriate, ineffective or worse. Sorry but it’s that whole male dominated world’s eye view. And I’m sure it’s had an effect the other way around too. Slate me as you like!