Posted on 08/28/2025 7:19:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
Good. Savings on the payroll budget.
Don’t let the door hit ya where the dog shoulda bit ya.
fire them all
Had the same thought, you are replaceable
Good way to empty out corrupt CDC.
Right, no one is irreplaceable!
Childish behavior by spoiled brats. Fire them.
I don’t hang out with a lot of lefties, but the ones I do know blindly follow any and all government dictates, including dutifully lining up for all of their shots.
On the other hand, I know a whole bunch of conservatives who have always been suspicious of too many vaccines.
Their main concern is not the vaccine itself, but the combination vaccines, where several are mixed in the same subcutaneous cocktail.
While on their own, the vaxes are safe and effective, with plenty of testing. But as I understand, FDA has never required cocktails to undergo any sort of rigorous evaluation.
When we learned this, we began limiting our kids shots and we decided what risks we would take.
HPV? Hard no. Instead we raised our kids to live a moral life and not become sluts by the age of 13. (or ever)
Measles? For most, it’s a harmless disease with some discomfort.
Chicken Pox? I think our younger ones got it. The older ones just had chicken pox.
For me, I refuse the shingles vax and Tetanus.
I was being pushed hard for a tetanus shot at an urgent care so I did some research. Before the vaccine existed, about 300 cases of Tetanus were reported a year. Since then, it’s about 50 cases. In a nation of 330,000,000, it’s not even a rounding error and not something I care about.
I also know a family who’s perfectly normal son went to the doctor for some shots at the age of three. The next day he was severely autistic.
Hopefully each and every disgruntled LIB nitwit and other losers will walk. Quit & Git! This is an easy way to cull the herd.
Mainly, Fed employees are self-important.
Sounds like a profit sharing crowd to me.
YES! Keep “fighting” stupid embedded democrat hacks!!
It would seem that progressives eschew change as much or more than conservatives
All those “paper pushers” can push themselves to the unemployment line.
The loyalty they claimed for themselves is purely the loyalty of bureaucrats for each other, not personal loyalty, as the fired former CDC director had not been in the job for very long.
Fire every one of them. Let them find a REAL job.
Swamp creature revolt.
United States: The average number of reported tetanus cases annually is around 30.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 28 cases in 2022.
Change the locks so they can’t come back in.
Remember when Obama tasked the CDC to look into guns as a Public Health problem?
I think he hoped that he could completely bypass the Second Amendment simply by declaring a “Public Health Emergency”.
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