[August 16, 2022] Last week, the Centers for Disease Control issued new guidance that has finally met the reality many of us discussed more than two years ago (see my articles here, here, and here). There is a lot of ground covered in this new guidance. The point is that they were wrong, terribly so. Whoops.
People were fired from their jobs, demagogued, assaulted, and barred from various public places for acting with common sense. Before COVID-19, when a health crisis hit, we looked to the CDC for guidance. But with COVID, that changed. Their guidance became government policy, and the results weren’t pretty. Yet, no one has been fired for their dereliction of duty. No one has been publically and openly criticized for allowing this to happen.
Mistakes were made. The CDC leadership finally admits it. But when mistakes are discovered, it makes sense to acknowledge them and take corrective action quickly. That did not happen at the CDC. It took until May 2021 for the agency to recognize that C19 spreads through the air, and yet, it still continues to push masks mandates despite no study with a control group showing masks are effective.
Of course, the agency made a fool of itself when in April 2021, its Director Rochelle Walensky said, “pregnant people” should get the C19 vaccine, only to walk it back. The fact that “pregnant people” only applies to women should say something about how this organization is tied up in symbolism and not what’s happening to everyday people.
The CDC’s mission is to “save lives and protect people from health threats.” It failed. Further, the agency is now wholly politicized and is flailing around for relevance. Their actions have done the American people great harm.
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Gen. Satterfield, a very timely article. The day after your article came out the NY Times had an article on the CDC’s failure. Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wednesday delivered a sweeping rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had failed to respond quickly enough and needed to be overhauled. “To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications,” she said in a video distributed to the agency’s roughly 11,000 employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/us/politics/cdc-rochelle-walensky-covid.html
Wow, Gen. Satterfield does it again.
“How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong—and What Went Right—during a Year of COVID”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-u-s-pandemic-response-went-wrong-and-what-went-right-during-a-year-of-covid/
How this publication that purports to be about science got wrong what we got wrong about the pandemic. Another example of someone who believes what the so-called experts tell her. Shoddy journalism is one of the biggest failures in the pandemic and yet the author glosses over it. This article is a colossal failure in journalism.
Scientific American has been unscientific for many decades. This article is just one example of many that shows their extreme liberal bias, they are mostly wrong. Yes, anyone can find some “scientists” that will tell you what you want. But that is not what SA does. They just parrot the leftist talking points we all know.
Scientific American is not scientific and not American
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/06/emscientific_americanem_is_not_scientific_and_not_american.html
Scientific American’s descent into hate-filled politics unsuccessfully disguised as science is total, its 175-year-old reputation as a reliable scientific publication totally trashed, with barely hope for recovery.
Yep, when science is not science. Politics destroys science.
Corruption at its worst. Just another example.
Don’t ya love it when white progressives are in charge. Things begin to fall apart. Camels are on the horizon.
Pregnant people? Do they think we’re stupid!
Willie, it’s worse than that. They think we are stupid and like being stupid. Feed us more trash and we will lap it up. The progressive leftists are in charge and they have created chaos.
Nice article with some common sense. Little of that going around these days.
That’s why most of us keep coming back here. BTW, read those articles linked to in today’s article. Gen. Satterfield nailed it more than 2 yrs ago. The govt used the pandemic as a way to control us. Shows that there is evil in the hearts of those wannabe tyrants.
Hey folks, just off topic a tad. I finished reading Gen. Satterfield’s book he published last year on Amazon. “Our Longest Year in Iraq.” What a great book. Go out and get yourself a copy now. I know that some of you will be hesitant, but it is worth it. Plus you get to support Gen.S. and his website.
Yes! Follow the science, we are told by our minders but when the “science” goes against what they want, then it’s racists, etc. Stupidity run amok.
Correct, Emma. The leftists are running amok in many areas, esp. education.
Oklahoma Public Schools Face Consequences for Teaching CRT
https://spectator.org/oklahoma-public-schools-face-consequences-for-teaching-crt/
Don’t forget to read Gen. Satterfield’s daily favorites.
Thanks Tracey B. Got my copy a few months ago.
So true! 👍 Who is on first base anyway?
Yep, classic liberal. Reality does not exist for them, only what is in their tiny minds.
THe best thing that could happen is for the CDC to be completely dismantled. We would have been better off without it and the nutjob Fauci.