As reviewed in “Why Government Health Care Kills More People Than It Helps,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't have botched its COVID response any more if it tried.
August 17, 2022, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky even publicly
admitted the agency’s failures, stating, “we are responsible for some
pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes from testing, to data, to
communications.”1,2,3
To save face, Walensky is reorganizing the agency, but considering
the extent to which CDC officials have lied, obfuscated and broken laws
intended to protect public health, it is highly unlikely that the CDC
will ever be able to recover their credibility.
Abolish the CDC
The CDC is corrupted beyond salvage, and as noted by Brownstone Institute founder and president Jeffrey Tucker,4 the only way to fix a captured bureaucracy is to get rid of it:
“Any serious effort to end the crisis must deal with
the problem of the administrative state and the bureaucratic power
thereof. Without that focus, no reform effort can get anywhere ...
The reason is simple: a free and functioning society
cannot coexist with an undemocratic beast like this on the loose, making
its own laws and running roughshod over rights and liberties with zero
oversight from elected leaders. Until the administrative state is
defanged and disempowered, there will be no representative government
and no hope for change.
It’s obvious that the bureaucracies will not reform
themselves ... The reform will be ... cosmetic without reality. It will
not deal with the central problem as plainly stated by Harvey Risch:5 ‘industry subservience and epidemiologic incompetence’ ...
After Betsy DeVos
left the Department of Education, and observing from the inside what a
disaster it truly was, she said what needed to be said. Abolish it. Shut
it down. Defund it completely. Forget about it. It does nothing useful.
Everything it does can be performed better at the state level or
private markets. All true.
What she says about the Department of Education is
equally true of another hundred-plus agencies of the administrative
state. People have been talking lately about abolishing the FBI. Great,
do it. Same goes for the CDC. It’s time. Right now. Pull the plug on the
whole thing and sell the real estate.
Truly there is no other option except continuing to
do what we are doing now. The status quo is intolerable. If a serious
reform-minded Congress comes to power, abolition and not reform and not
cuts, needs to be the starting point of discussion ...
There needs to be a to-be-abolished list and any
federal government institution with the word agency, department, or
bureau needs to be on it ... Society itself, which is smarter than
bureaucracy, can manage the rest.”
The Rise of the American Biosecurity State
To understand how and why the CDC has morphed into an agency that
works against, instead of for, the public good, we need to take a look
at the history of American biodefense. Two journalists have recently
dedicated articles to this issue.
In an August 29, 2022, Unherd article,6
Ashley Rindsberg reviewed how Dr. Anthony Fauci rose to power as the
highest paid federal employee, sitting at the “very top of America’s
biodefense infrastructure,” with near-unlimited authority, at least as
it pertains to science; what gets funded and what doesn’t.
“To understand the rise of Fauci ... we must return to the first
months of the 2000s, when a hawkish new administration was settling into
power,” Rindsberg writes. George W. Bush came into office with Dick
Cheney as vice president. Cheney had already served as defense secretary
under George H.W. Bush.
According to Rindsberg, the Bush administration “came to power with
biological weapons and infectious disease very much top of mind, with
Cheney seeking to address the gaping hole in America’s national security
left by the country’s lack of a coherent biodefense strategy.”
Biodefense became an even more prominent concern in the aftermath of
9/11, when letters containing anthrax were sent out to members of media
and two U.S. senators. Of the 22 people infected with anthrax, five
died. According to Rindsberg, Cheney “served as the political engine
behind a paradigm shift that would soon take place in America’s
biodefense strategy.”
Biodefense for the 21st Century
Just six days before 9/11, Joe Biden, then-chair of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, had led a hearing on the threat of
bioterrorism and the spread of infectious diseases.
Subsequent to that hearing, in June 2002, president Bush signed the “Biodefense for the 21st Century”7
directive, the aim of which was to advance a “comprehensive framework”
for U.S. biodefense, based on the assumption that America could be
devastated by a bioweapons attack.
The directive outlined “essential pillars” of the U.S. biodefense
program, including threat awareness and vulnerability assessment,
prevention and protection, surveillance and detection, response and
recovery. The year before, in June 2001, senior policymakers had also
performed a two-day tabletop simulation of a smallpox attack called Dark
Winter.
“Intended ... to expose vulnerabilities, the operation showed how
quickly a public health disaster could lead to widespread chaos and
social collapse. This was the stuff nightmares are made of — and, by all
accounts, those were the nightmares that Dick Cheney was having,”
Rindsberg writes. He continues:8
“Significant as it was, [Cheney’s] transformation of
America’s biodefence framework was part of a much larger repositioning
of long-term geopolitical strategy, an effort also led by Cheney.
In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse in
the early Nineties, Cheney, then Secretary of Defense under George H.W.
Bush, along with Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, began
formulating a grand strategy for the post-Cold War era.
This plan, revealed in an infamous leaked memo,9
was rooted in a single strategic objective: America should permanently
remain the world’s superpower. Its architects argued the US would do so
only by preserving ‘strategic depth’ to ‘shape the security
environment.’
The initial leaked memo was later reworked by Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who broadened the concept10
of ‘strategic depth’ to cover not only geographic reach but also an
ability to wage war with weapons that could not only cripple an enemy’s
military capabilities but disrupt its political, economic and social
stability.”
How Biodefense Became Fauci’s Domain
In 2002, the Bush administration quintupled biodefense spending to
$317 million. That same year, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS),
broke out in China, and in 2003, just as SARS was being contained, H5N1
avian influenza emerged.
The back-to-back outbreaks acted as fuel for the erection of a
biosecurity state, and in 2003, the Bush administration increased the
annual biodefense budget to $2 billion — a staggering sum at the time.
Bush also earmarked another $6 billion for the development and
stockpiling of vaccines over the next decade.
But funding was only part of the challenge. To truly prepare for a
bioweapons attack, research had to be conducted and coordinated, and to
that end, Cheney brought all biodefense research programs under the
purview of a single entity — the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID), led by Fauci.
So, since 2003, Fauci has been responsible for “civilian biodefense
research with a focus on research and early development of medical
countermeasures against terrorist threats from infectious diseases and
radiation exposures.”11
What’s more, as explained by Rindsberg, “as far as NIAID was
concerned, there was no meaningful administrative distinction between
biodefense and scientific research. With the stroke of Cheney’s pen, all
United States biodefense efforts, classified or unclassified, were
placed under the aegis of Anthony Fauci.”
This, in a nutshell, explains Fauci’s power. As the head of the
biodefense infrastructure, Fauci has, for decades, had an open channel
straight into the top office of the White House. He’s also exempt from
oversight. For all these years, he’s had carte blanche to approve and
run whatever biodefense research he wanted, without anyone telling him
otherwise.
It also explains why he’s the highest paid employee in the federal
government, making more than the president himself. A significant
portion of Fauci’s $417,600 annual salary12 is compensation for his biodefense research leadership.
COVID-19 Is Fauci’s Grandest Failure
As top dog of biodefense research, it was Fauci’s job to prevent
COVID-19 from devastating the U.S. Instead, in 2017, he confidently
announced that then-president Trump would “no doubt” have to face a
“surprise infectious disease outbreak,”13
and then went on to issue a never-ending series of conflicting
recommendations as head of the White House Coronavirus Response team.
Fauci also led efforts to suppress discussion about the origin of COVID-19, as detailed in “Liars, Propagandists and The Great Reset.”
In January 2022, House Oversight Committee Republicans released
National Institutes of Health emails showing Fauci and now-former NIH
director Francis Collins spearheaded the effort to bury the lab leak
theory, even though the consensus in early February 2020 was that the
virus likely leaked from the Wuhan lab — and that it appeared to have
been genetically engineered.
February 4, 2020, Fauci and Collins received a draft of the article,
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” later published in Nature Medicine.14
The original draft has never been released to the public, but we do
have an email reply from Fauci, in which he objected to the inclusion of
serial passaging through humanized mice.
In its final form, the Nature Medicine article roundly dismissed the
idea that the virus originated in a lab, proposing instead that it must
have evolved naturally, even though no actual evidence for that existed.
The Dangers of Biodefense Research Are Obvious
For years, a number of critics have warned that biodefense research
could result in the very thing we’re trying to avoid, namely an
infectious disease outbreak, as even the highest-security laboratories
are prone to leaks and accidents.
One such critic is Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and
chemical biology at Rutgers University. In 2003, he warned that the
burgeoning biodefense endeavor, while well-intentioned, “may perversely
have exactly the opposite effect.”15
Fauci, ever the defender of risky research (and as we now understand,
for selfish reasons), dismissed Ebright’s concerns as “spurious.”
Today, Fauci’s dismissal rings hollow, as documents obtained through
various Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests show he and Collins
appear to have been more than a little nervous about people discovering
they funded gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.16 As reported by U.S. Right To Know (USRTK):17
“In the earliest days of the pandemic, Anthony Fauci
and Francis Collins emailed about coronaviruses under study at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology and about whether they had steered money to the
lab, an email obtained by U.S. Right to Know shows.
Collins ... and Fauci ... exchanged emails on February 1, 2020, about a preprint18
authored by Zhengli Shi, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s
Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases. The preprint described bat
coronaviruses under study at the lab, including a coronavirus 96%
genetically similar to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The emails show that Collins and Fauci were concerned
about links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and NIH. ‘In case
you haven’t seen this preprint from one week ago,’ Collins said in a
February 1, 2020, email to Fauci. ‘No evidence this work was supported
by NIH’ ...
About two hours after the email exchange, Collins and
Fauci would join a secret teleconference with a group of virologists
who were closely examining the novel coronavirus. The teleconference
touched off a high-profile push to discredit the lab leak hypothesis.
The revelation that Collins and Fauci were discussing
whether NIH had funded work on coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 at
the Wuhan lab in the hours before suggests that politics may have been
at play.”
How Cheney Tricked Us Into War
The second article19
to take a deep dive into the links between Cheney and Fauci was
published by Sam Husseini, September 7, 2022. Husseini, however, throws
his searchlight on the way both of these characters have used lies to
further the biosecurity agenda:
“Twenty years ago, the ‘Cheney-Bush junta’ ...
launched its propaganda campaign to invade Iraq ... Sept. 8, 2002, The
New York Times ran on its front page the story ‘U.S. Says Hussein
Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts’ ...
That same day, then Vice President Dick Cheney
appeared on Meet the Press ... hyping the New York Times story as
evidence that Hussein was attempting to acquire ‘the kinds of tubes that
are necessary to build a centrifuge and the centrifuge is required to
take low-grade uranium and enhance it into highly-enriched uranium which
is what you have to have in order to build a bomb.’ Colin Powell and
Condoleezza Rice followed Cheney’s lead on other shows.”
The problem, we now know, is that the “anonymous source” quoted by
The New York Times lied. Worse, Cheney himself appears to have been that
source. In other words, Cheney leaked the false story to the press, and
then used that news coverage to support his recommendation to invade
Iraq.
“Even the mainstream Bob Simon of CBS would later
remark to Bill Moyers about Cheney: ‘You leak a story, and then you
quote the story. I mean, that's a remarkable thing to do,’” Husseini writes,20 adding: “Remarkable is actually an understatement. It’s engaging in a de facto conspiracy to deceive the U.S. public into war.”
Fauci Caught Employing the Same Trick
Taking a page straight out of Cheney’s handbook, Fauci used the exact
same trick when, in April 2020, he was asked to address the suggestion
that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade.
Fauci went on to cite “a study ... where a group of highly qualified
evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there and the sequences
in bats as they evolve. And the mutations that it took to get to the
point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species
from an animal to a human.”
That paper was “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”21
that I just discussed above — the paper that Fauci and Collins edited
prior to its publication in Nature Medicine. So, Fauci edited the paper22 and then he used that paper as “evidence” to support his irrational stance that the virus occurred naturally.
Just as Cheney engaged in a “de facto conspiracy to deceive the U.S.
public into war,” Fauci engaged in a de facto conspiracy to trick the
public into giving up our freedoms and livelihoods in the name of
biosecurity. So, as noted by Husseini,23 “One thing that should be kept in mind as one parses through the claims and ‘exposés’ is that some are de facto cover stories.”
‘Biodefense’ Has Become a War Machine Against the Public
Now, nearly three years into the COVID debacle, it’s clear that this
is indeed a war. It’s a war against the American public, for the purpose
of forcing us into a New World Order, a One World Government run by a
globalist cabal, where “biosecurity” is the justification for the
removal of Constitutional rights and freedoms.
The same war is being waged by governments across the globe, against
their own citizens, for the same reason and with the same aim. Fauci
like Cheney before him, is responsible for getting us into this war, and
for keeping us in it, using lies and propaganda.
The Iraq war — launched under false pretenses — lasted for eight
years. No doubt, COVID could be strung out for that long as well, unless
the truth is finally recognized by the masses.
And, to circle back to where we started, the institutions that
facilitated this war on the American public must be abolished and
dismantled, and the individuals responsible within them held to account
for their roles. This includes not only Fauci and Walensky, but a host
of others as well.