There Is No Future for the CDC
By Jeffrey Tucker
What would we do without the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also known as the CDC?
Would you be lost in confusion about your health?
Would you fall into a fit of sickness and kick the bucket?
Would we go back to leeches, phrenology, and witch doctors?
This weekend, several dozen panicked articles in the mainstream press warned that this is the world where Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is taking us as secretary of HHS. By firing the newly appointed head of the CDC, thereby provoking top “scientists” into resigning, he was dismantling science and health itself, foreshadowing some calamity for the whole country.
All this high dudgeon was a bit much. Every article left out the salient points of the past five years. None mentioned that it was the CDC which was the front-facing agency during the COVID period. With daily changes on its website, it sent the whole of life into upheaval over a respiratory infection.
From the starting gate, the CDC warned that mail-in voting would only spread disease so all states needed to prepare for remote ballots in November 2020. Never mind that something like this had never been tried before and that this was a presidential election. Never mind that the experience of every other country was that this method of mass voting was not secure and would lead to vast fraud.
Then came the crazy other messages. We should wash our hands constantly and use sanitizer. We should not hold house parties. We should stop going to church. We must avoid all restaurants and bars. In fact those places should close. We should never stand closer than 6 feet away from anyone else, which means no travel, no gatherings, no shopping, no concerts or sporting events, no school.
Just stay home, said the CDC. And why? Because people were dying of COVID everywhere, including children. To make sure they could generate the data, the bureaucrats did the unthinkable on the instruction of other strange officials who were suddenly all over the television. Every dead person was tested for the presence of the virus and then classified as a COVID death, thus inflating the figures dramatically. This is scientific fraud.
The CDC was the author of the “reopening plans” which were really just plans to stay closed for an indeterminate amount of time. They were so convoluted and data dependent that they made no sense. No state could follow them. When the CDC could no longer stop states from permitting people freedom, they mandated Plexiglas between merchant and customer, issued extreme controls on restaurant capacity, and pushed masking on the whole population.
Keep in mind that none of this was ever voted in as legislation. Congress was rendered powerless. Not even the U.S. president’s demand for opening was heeded. The CDC then worked with the FDA to take therapeutics off the shelf so that people could not even get medications their own doctors had prescribed.
Meanwhile, the liquor and weed stores stayed fully open. Millions of businesses were destroyed. Kids lost a year then two in education. Women with young children could not get childcare. People started fleeing states with lockdowns toward states that were more open. Loved ones across borders were separated.
For a time, the CDC actually imposed border restriction between states. They said that if you travel to another state, you needed to quarantine for two weeks. They worked with state and county health officials to enforce these codes with uncertain penalties and uncertain status in law.
Now, the CDC says they never mandated anything. They were merely making recommendations. But all local and state officials were pushed by funding and fear of media to abide by the recommendations. They had the force of law even though they were never passed by any legislature or any president. Nor were they adjudicated in court.
The CDC was the front-facing agency for the new totalitarian state. The agency celebrated the Chinese Communist Party’s response and generated libraries full of sketchy science that was a tissue of fallacy and lying by statistics upon closer examination.
They did all of this in a push for the new shot that came out later. Even then and even after it pushed vaccine mandates, they imposed masking on buses, airlines, and trains. You could not even ride a train without being yelled at for not having your mask over your nose. This went on for many months until finally a federal judge said to stop it.
This is only a brief history of what we went through with the CDC at the helm. They have never admitted error, only mistakes in communication. One after another direction of the CDC came and went following a tenure of falsehoods and obfuscations. They said the shot would stop transmission. It did not. They said you would not catch COVID. The data rolled in and showed the opposite: you were more likely to catch it with the shot.
Then the CDC started burying the safety signals or not reporting them at all. They dismissed the vast number of injury reports and even deaths. They have treated those harmed as complaining liars who deserve nothing. This has gone on for five years. The carnage in health is obvious but there is also the associated learning loss, family upheaval, demographic chaos, and even a presidential election that was arguably wrongly decided.
There was great hope that this would change once Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was in charge of the parent agency. But then the CDC did something absolutely amazing. They ignored him. He picked a new head of the agency who could make a change, David Weldon, but he withdrew because he could not be confirmed by the Senate. So he fell back on his acting director Susan Monarez, who was confirmed and then did not follow RFK’s reform plan.
When she was fired, several doctors and scientists resigned. One of them turns out to be a major influencer in the LGBTQ world and his social media included images of him with leather pentagrams on his chest and other symbolism of Satanism. There are other images with occult themes so horrible that I will not describe them here. He was a major figure at the CDC at the height of the COVID crisis.
Now the legacy media somehow expects us to worry about the future of the CDC? They think we are stupid. Bottom line: the CDC has discredited itself wholly and completely. We cannot pretend otherwise. If there is any feedback relationship between the people and the government remaining, this agency should probably be fully unplugged, abolished, and salt sewn in the ground where it once stood.
The CDC has its origins during World War II with malaria fears and worries over bioweapons. It was a military operation that possessed the quarantine power. That said, it did great work in the past on issues of infectious disease and immunizations. Its mandate expanded and expanded through the years with ever more tasks and oversight, to the point that it presumed the right to tell you whether you can have a house party, go to church, or keep your business open.
If there is to be a modicum of justice in the world, this agency simply cannot have a future of any sort. Its abolition is a priority. How will our health fare? I’m sure that we will be quite fine. In fact, we might be better off than ever before. The health of Americans improved much more rapidly before it existed and might get back on track after it is gone.