Posted on 01/01/2023 3:59:52 PM PST by Twotone
The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House may finally be over.
Presidents for decades have brought fresh faces to the White House to coordinate federal responses to threats such as Covid-19, mpox, Ebola, AIDS, and the bird flu.
Now, Congress aims to give pandemic response a permanent home at the White House.
Next year’s government funding package includes a brand-new White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy that would have a director appointed by the president and up to 25 staff members.
“They’re not simply going to retire the role that [White House Covid-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha] plays when the emergency declaration ends,” said J. Stephen Morrison, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the director of its Global Health Policy Center. “You can’t just keep piling on coordinators, disease by disease.”
The new director’s main responsibilities would be to advise the president on preparing for pandemics and other biological threats, to coordinate response activities across the federal government — including research into new countermeasures and distribution of medical supplies — and to evaluate the government’s readiness. The director would also be a member of the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council.
“The functions outlined are exactly what is needed at the White House, and what I’ve been calling for for years, to avoid having any single agency take the lead on something that overlaps most departments in the U.S. government,” said Ken Bernard, who worked in biodefense policy in both the Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses.
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There’s one department with a twenty-five month shelf life.
What can the new director tell me about Ivermectin?
Gonna be fun when this person tries to shut down everything again and the red states tell whomever it is to f*** themselves
When the first plague of 2023 rolls out in a couple of months I’m sure we’ll see Pete Buttigieg levels of failure from this office.
This is how the EPA started.
Okay, now it’s been a good bit since I’ve been out of the loop with government departments and the like, but doesn’t this kind of thing already fall under HHS, specifically, PET (government acrimony for Office of Pandemics and Emerging Threats)?
I believe it works. Horse paste is apple flavored and within a very short time my severe headaches abated despite resisting DayQuil and aspirin. Sinus symptoms were same as beginning of COVID/flu last year.
Gives the president too much power.
I took Ivermectin after I was exposed to Covid.
My spring allergy symptoms were worse than my Covid case.
Apple flavored paste, an aspirin for clot prevention, povidone iodine nasal washes & gargle to keep viral load down & all but fatigue was gone the 3rd day. I’d also been on Dr. Z’s prophylactic protocol for about 8 months, so I was loaded up with Vit D & zinc beforehand.
remember folks, never let a crisis go to waste especially the ones they create themselves
Vitamins C and D3 plus calcium,zinc . But several days working in bitter cold Christmas weekend plus extra long hours lowered my resistance. A 2000 hour work year would be almost a vacation.
It gives the usual unelected bureaucrats too much power.
There’s no need for yet another office directed at controlling us. We should actually get rid of some of the existing ones, not add more.
Because we don’t already have multiple departments that deal with this already, right?
Pathetic.
This is a MUST hear! Rabbi Alon Anava has hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Rabbi Alon Anava says: “It’s the stupidity of people that’s concerning me.”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mzoP275mfkjE/
Thank you for the ping!
Yes, people no longer think for themselves & seem happy to do what they’re told. And they will turn against & fight those of us who DO think for ourselves & refuse to comply. A sad state of affairs in this world.
Sacajaweau :" This is how the EPA started. "
“Congress aims to give pandemic response a permanent home at the White House.
Next year’s government funding package includes a brand-new White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
that would have a director appointed by the president and up to 25 staff members...”
“The new director’s main responsibilities would be to advise the president on preparing for pandemics and other biological threats,
to coordinate response activities across the federal government — including research into new countermeasures and distribution of medical supplies — and to evaluate the government’s readiness."
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