CDC Admits They Were Wrong

Remember when you were told you needed to lockdown in your home for “two weeks to flatten the curve” on COVID? Remember how you were told wearing a mask didn’t help, then was mandatory? Remember how the way to beat the pandemic was to “social distance” and stay six feet away from anybody else? Remember how your kids’ schools all got shut down for over a year, and they had to learn at home? Remember all of the cancelled weddings, parties, birthdays, holidays, and funerals that were missed because of this disease? Remember how the CDC said, and the president aped that the best way to beat COVID was to get vaccinated? Well, apparently the CDC has come out with a new directive.

The CDC was wrong all along.

The Director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky, came out Wednesday and said that oops, we did not “reliably” meet our mission during COVID, and that’s got to change. In other words, the CDC told you and me a bunch of stuff that just wasn’t accurate. And the big mouthpiece for all of the directives, Anthony Fauci? He was all a big part of it, though he is nowhere to be found after Walensky’s mea culpa.

So the CDC needs to reorganize and transition. The Centers for Disease Control really didn’t control COVID with any authority. After all, over 1,000,000 Americans died! They were too busy telling people to stop smoking and get mammograms. But that’s all going to end now. Now they apparently know what they’ve done wrong, and they are going to fix it!

What the CDC needs to do is do what it’s name implies. They need to control diseases. They should have been on top of the research for COVID long before it became a problem in this country. Other countries around the world had produced millions of pages of documents on the disease and what worked and what didn’t work. To have our very own disease experts languish as Fauci and Deborah Birx did was inexcusable.

Walensky is apparently going to be able to keep her job. Fauci is going to keep his job, though he said (at age 81) that he was probably going to step down in a year or so. What needs to happen is all of these people that were involved in the politicization of COVID be fired and denied their retirement benefits. It would be a fitting memorial to the million plus people that have died, and the more than 400 people a day that are still dying from COVID in this country.

Either the United States is going to be the world leader in medicine, or it’s yet, one more thing that we are going to hand over to the Chinese to run. Either Joe Biden needs to step up to the plate and explain to the American people what HIS administration and Trump’s did were both wrong and inconclusive and that they mis-served the American people, costing over a million lives and trillions of dollars. They’ve caused the recession we are in, and they’re the ones at fault for listening to the faulty information, along with people like Walensky, Fauci, and Birx.

To do anything less is not only immoral and unethical, it’s criminal.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

When Does Congress Get Back To Work?

The COVID-19 virus has really thrown a monkey-wrench into a lot of what we as Americans, hell, we as world citizens do. It’s kept a lot of us home from work, some, without a paycheck. It’s closed down millions of businesses around the world at a time when the economy was going gangbusters.

And it’s evidently closed Congress down as well.

So, I have to ask the question, instead of all of these “investigations” that never seem to end, and never seem to come to any specific conclusion, when is Congress going to get back to work and do what We The People elected them to do?

I was sitting here this morning, sipping my coffee, wondering about the various bills Congress could be debating right now. There’s a bill on immigration reform that is well overdue. There is a bill on getting rid of Obamacare once and for all and giving insurance companies the ability to design their own healthcare insurance plans. They need to start discussing how we are going to fix our crumbling infrastructure, and how it’s going to be paid. They need to tell us how we’re going to get around these massive bailouts that we’ve undergone over the past two months, and how it’s going to be paid for.

Of course, it’s an election year, and we all know nothing ever gets done in an election year. This means that the House of Representatives works basically half of the time. Less than that by the time you figure they aren’t a “full-time” organization to begin with. And they’re making $174,000 a year! The average number of days Congress is in session is 146.7…based on an average from 2001 to date. That’s basically one day of work for every 2 1/2 days. Somehow, I don’t think we’re getting our money’s worth!

Now, let’s look at what the House of Representatives is focused on. They’ve spent the last 3 1/2 years investigating. Oh, they’ve investigated the Russian Collusion situation that went on from 2016 through February 20th of this year. They had the Mueller Report investigation that was a separate part of that. They had the impeachment hearings, and now, they want to do an investigation of Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx and the Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force to make sure that a) everything was done in a timely fashion, and b) all of the money (about $2 trillion so far and counting) will go where it’s supposed to go.

In the end, we’ve found out through the Mueller Report, and the FBI, and the DOJ, and Congress that there wasn’t any Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. We found out that there wasn’t any impeachable offense, even though the House voted impeachment. The Senate voted it down, and there was never any real doubt as to what the outcome would be. Now, we are looking at another six months to a year of investigation into the Coronavirus Task Force.

My question is, when is the House of Representatives going to get back to doing the work of We The People?

It’s time to stop petty politics, and start doing some real work, which has been sorely lacking under Nancy Pelosi for the last 16 months. It’s time the folks in the House start earning that $174,000 and stop piddling around with meaningless investigations that don’t lead anywhere.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!