CDC Chief Blames Botched Response To Covid On Poor Communication

This would be hilarious. If it weren’t so sad.

Rochelle Walensky, the woman who shredded what was left of the reputation of the Centers for Disease Control during the covid pandemic, says she’s going to fix what’s wrong with the agency in the next four months.

She’s blaming poor communication for the fact that public trust in the CDC has been worn down to a tiny nub.

“We are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes from testing to data to communications,” she finally admitted this week.

Yes, you are. Resign immediately.

The mess at the CDC had nothing to do with communication, other than the falsehoods spread by the agency. Instead, it was the CDC’s wild, arrogant abuse of power, its autocratic instincts, its recommendations that ignored childhood development - face masks on 2-year-olds? - and ignorance of human nature that combined to screw the pandemic pooch.

Because of Walensky’s agency and its nutty proclamations, thousands died alone in nursing homes and hospitals, deprived of their ability to be with loved ones when they most needed their comfort.

Heartless. All of it.

The CDC’s pressure for vaccine mandates, something that Anthony Fauci had promised would not happen, ignored evidence that natural immunity was superior to the leaky vaccines that were being forced on Americans regardless of their age or risk of serious illness.

CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky: “Our data from the CDC today suggest that vaccinated people do not carry the virus.” pic.twitter.com/9W1SHecSEm

— The Recount (@therecount) March 30, 2021

In fact, early data out of Israel showed that the vaccines were not working as promised. The CDC ignored it.

The best thing Walansky could do now is quit. And the best thing the CDC could do would be to stick to food pyramids.

What am I saying, they couldn’t even get THAT right. (Remember when carbs were supposed to make up the bulk of our diets? Look around to see how well that worked.)

Most of us have ignored the CDC for years. We eat raw cookie dough, rare meat and runny eggs. 

But once covid struck, the CDC didn’t just issue cute guidelines. It began issuing edicts. The courts eventually slapped the agency around for exceeding its authority, but not until immeasurable damage was done.

Remember their eviction moratorium? What gave the CDC the power to nullify contracts between landlords and tenants? Nothing, as it turned out. But landlords were stuck until the courts finally stepped in.

Mask orders on air travel? That was another case of abuse of power by unelected bureaucrats, but it took a federal judge to put an end to that form of pandemic theater.

Because of the CDC, the Biden administration issued vaccine mandates, which led to a huge backlash and resulted in some Americans distrusting all vaccines. There’s a polio outbreak now in New York. Let’s place the blame for kids not getting the safe and effective polio vax where it belongs: On this administration.

But the worst mistake made by Walensky was collaborating with Randi Weingarten’s militant teachers union to concoct draconian rules for reopening schools that effectively kept kids home for 18 months or more. On top of that, when they did return to the classroom students were forced to eat silent lunches, sit six feet apart, wear worthless cloth masks and were prohibited from socializing with their friends.

The CDC’s war on children was evil.

Public health and politics do not mix. Walensky ought to be sacked for letting union bosses make public health rules.

Biden destroyed what was left of public health trust by trying to mandate vaccines on millions of people who likely had better immunity than the vaccines confer. It’s one of the worst things ever done by any President. An epic, obvious mistake born out of politics, not science.

— Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) August 18, 2022

Years from now, we’ll shake our heads and wonder how we allowed a pack of hysterical academics in Atlanta wreck our economy, deprive our kids of education and cost Americans their jobs.

Reorganizing the CDC won’t help. Defanging it will.