CDC In Throes of Mutiny As Employees Stage Walk Out in Support of Fired Director and Her Deputies

Dozens of CDC employees turned a "clap-out" for fired and resigning members of the CDC hierarchy into an impromptu walkout to protest the change of policies imposed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Particularly bold were those who shook hands with the former "monkeypox czar," without knowing where that appendage had recently been.

The event was the culmination of the tumultuous 30-day reign of CDC Director Susan Monarez, during which she made it abundantly clear that she was not interested in collaborating with RFK, Jr., on his "MAHA" agenda. Once it became clear that Monarez was out and CDC was no longer a personal playground but part of the federal government, three other officials, including Dr. Monkeypox, resigned.

Last Wednesday, as sort of a prelude to today, 750 CDC employees sent a letter to RFK, Jr., and Congress accusing him of contributing to harassment and violence against government employees because someone who, rightly or wrongly, blamed CDC for his health problems, fired some 180 rifle rounds into CDC Headquarters. In the process, he killed a DeKalb County police officer before killing himself.

In response, the White House tapped top RFK, Jr. aide, Jim O’Neill, currently the deputy secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, to head up the agency.

There is a near certainty that this gambit will backfire. First and foremost, CDC is not held in high regard by anyone who is not wearing a facemask while driving their car alone. Outside the fevered minds at its Atlanta HQ, CDC was never a major player nationally in any major health crisis. I worked there for seven years, and the absolute dumdass stuff I saw, particularly surrounding the anthrax attacks that coincided with 9/11, would leave you slapping your forehead in disbelief. The resignations will allow Kennedy to place his personal selections into the non-Senate-confirmed jobs and keep acting CDC directors in charge until the Democrats get around to allowing John Thune to schedule a vote on President Trump's nominee.

As an added bonus, the 750 signatures on the letter lambasting Kennedy would be a good place to start for a reduction in force.

I’ll put on my fireproof suit and repost what I said on another thread:

In the current CDC and vaccine turmoil, we need to make sure that the baby isn’t thrown out with the bathwater.

With regard to vaccines, many have legitimate concerns about mRNA vaccines and about the number of vaccines given to babies. These issues need to be addressed. However, we need to be aware that the headlines and discussions are sometimes utilized by those who are simply anti-vaccine to advance their cause. If you have a chance to look back over your family history, you might be surprised to find out how many in earlier generations did not reach adulthood due to diseases such as typhoid fever, measles, polio, smallpox, influenza, or other diseases. Some of these have been nearly eliminated due to the use of vaccines. Still those who are anti-vaccine will use our current discussions to argue against all vaccines. Do not let them sway the outcome of the debate by their misleading rhetoric. Lives depend upon it.

With regard to the CDC, there are arguments that can be made against it and many other government alphabet organizations. However, assuming that the CDC plays no role in the control of diseases is unfounded. To give one example, the EIS (Epidemic Intelligence Service) does remarkable and incredibly important work. When outbreaks of deadly and infectious diseases (such as Ebola, cholera, and many others) occur in the world, the EIS will make efforts to control the deadly outbreak before it becomes more widespread, and before it reaches our shores. EIS employees will go, not only into the worst of the worst nations, but into the worst places in the worst nations, at great risk to themselves. How many of us have jobs in which our day starts by being in a place so dangerous that, when we arrive, we are handed a box with a button inside it; and we are told that, if we are in danger, open the box, press the button, and a platoon of Marines will show up? This has been the thankless life of some EIS employees (who are public servants in the truest sense of the word).

So, let us address and attack the legitimate issues with CDC and vaccines. But let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Let’s not cut off our nose to spite our face.

Historically speaking, generally speaking, the blanket “anti-vaccine” folks have always been largely all left wingers, by far. I think that’s still probably true.

A lot of people though, on the left and right, had a very specific objection to a very specific vaccine - the brand new mRna experimental Covid vaccine.

The media commentators and others tried to spin this legitimate skepticism into a generalized “anti vaxx” “anti science” and the rest of it. Completely vile and uncalled for, and frankly unforgivable.

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