One would have hoped that, when teed up by RINO Senator Bill Cassidy — a nominal Republican, mind you, who only voted to confirm RFK Jr. on threat of primary — to throw her potential future boss under the bus, the Trump CDC Director nominee Susan Monarez would have answered along the lines of: “Recognizing that the right to rule flows from the consent of the governed, I will respect the democratic will of the American people as expressed at the ballot box and follow the lead of my boss, Secretary Kennedy, and his boss, Donald Trump, the only nationally elected politician in the nation.”
Instead, she refused to defend RFK Jr. against the multiple (unfair) attacks levied against him. On the contrary, she basically pledged full-throated support of the vax agenda, regardless of what the American people empowered MAHA to do, which is to bring true scientific rigor back to public health.
As I mentioned in a previous article, I don’t know who made the decision to hire this woman to run the CDC. No prominent MAHA activist or politician has endorsed her. She apparently sprang out of the ether after Trump’s initial CDC Director nominee, alleged “anti-vaxxer” Dave Weldon got shot down.
Last month, in a similar display of disloyalty, dozens of NIH government employees took it upon themselves to stage a walkout during a town hall conducted by Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya when he dared to broach the vindicated and near-certain theory that COVID-19 was birthed in a lab funded by Anthony Fauci’s NIH.
Via CNN, May 26 (emphasis added):
Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory.
“This one’s a tough one for me,” Bhattacharya told the audience of researchers and other NIH employees gathered in an auditorium at the biomedical research agency’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, last Monday, before introducing one of the most divisive topics in science.
“It’s possible that the [Covid-19] pandemic was caused by research conducted by human beings,” he said, according to a video obtained by CNN. “And it’s also possible that the NIH partly sponsored that research. And if that’s true – ”
At that point, Bhattacharya paused to watch as dozens of NIH staffers stood and filed out of the auditorium…
The walkout was a gentle protest, one Bhattacharya – a former Stanford professor of health policy and economics who frequently claimed to have been censored during the Covid-19 pandemic for communicating views in opposition with those held by US scientific leadership at the time – referred to later in the town hall as “silent dissent.”
It represented not just disagreement with – and dismay over – Bhattacharya’s assertion that the NIH may bear some responsibility for the pandemic, which killed more than 7 million people worldwide, by sponsoring so-called gain-of-function research that created the SARS-CoV-2 virus that then leaked from a lab. That’s a view not shared by a large number of expert virologists and epidemiologists, who think it’s more likely the virus emerged via a spillover from animals.
As far as I can suss out, none of these rogue government employees were even disciplined, much less fired, for insubordination.
These are spoiled children, and we know what happens when one spares the rod. They’ve been getting away with doing whatever they want with impunity for decades upon decades, given carte blanche by the executive leadership that has abdicated its fiduciary and moral obligations to make sure rogue scientists in the public employ don’t run amok.
