Monarez 's ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership.
The White House said it fired Susan Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after she refused to step down from her post amid a policy disagreement with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The termination, confirmed late on Aug. 27 by the White House, came after her attorneys denied she had resigned or received notification of her termination, even after HHS announced earlier in the day that Monarez was no longer the CDC director.
Monarez’s ouster, less than one month after the Senate confirmed her to the role, was followed by resignations from three other top CDC officials in protest of Kennedy’s leadership, including his direction on vaccines.
Every one of them will happily trade your health for their own profit.
Return the favor when they start dying en mass.
I don’t think it’s going to be them doing the dying?
Yeah, except the cost to the vulnerable or those that rely on herd immunity. Nothing quite like bringing back effectively eradicated diseases.
Perhaps this is what the 2nd Amendment was for.
The 2nd Amendment was created to ensure schoolchildren have to live in constant fear.
Nothing so nefarious as that. Just like a lot of the Constitution, it was to help maintain chattel slavery.
True for measles, smallpox etc., but The Concept of Classical Herd Immunity May Not Apply to COVID-19
Yeah it’s definitely I’m going to be treated like the flu, with yearly reformulated shots eventually.
Except it’s not, because they’re working towards outlawing covid vaccines entirely. Allegedly a new one is going to be available this year (it’s already late), but as they continue to consolidate power I think it’s likely they refuse to approve next year’s at all.
Oh yeah
I’m in Canada, we’ve made the latest one, we’re going to use them.
There are 6 vaccine production facilities across canadian universities coming online this year, across the country. We are bringing back the expertise killed off by the Mulroney Conservatives.
Makes me really glad that America’s fall to fascism came in the form of a double-tap. Trump’s first term showed us that things were deeply fucked, but since there were a few years of Biden in between we had time to prepare for the second.
This. It may not cost them their children or loved ones but it can cost someone else’s theirs. It’s socially irresponsible and reckless. Unfortunately, unless it’s suddenly them whose effected directly they won’t care. The whole “it’ll never happen to me” but if it does, then they’ll come out crying and a pleading on tv. I wish people could just consider others wellbeing for more than two seconds. Yes, your personal independence is important but you don’t live in a vacuum! You’re a social animal and that comes with responsibilities.
It was socially irresponsible and reckless to ignore warnings about COVID-19 from Asia. But when Trump was infected, he had the latest tech from the NIH to keep him alive.
I wish their motivation was just profit. At least that would have some level of rationality to it.