Trying to decide which governmental institution has suffered the greatest loss of credibility over the COVID-19 pandemic is a bit like trying to decide whether it’s better to take a left or right jab to the head. There’s really no wrong answer, and it’s all going to hurt.
Yet, when looking at the CDC, they sit somewhere near the top — given just how apolitical the organization seemed to be prior to the coronavirus. While Washington, D.C. may not be apolitical, at the very least, you have never thought of it as a part of your daily life.
Over the last two years, though, the CDC has been interjected into American policy-making in unprecedented ways, and that’s led to some terrible results via unsupported mask hysteria, lockdowns, and other mandates. And while you’d expect an organization founded on “science” to never do things with a political bent, it’s clear CDC Dir. Rochelle Walensky was receiving her orders direct from the Biden government.
Another example is now available. The CDC has “revised” pediatric deaths from COVID-19 down 24 percent, after a “mistake” was discovered. According to The Daily Caller.
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised their data to decrease pediatric COVID-19 deaths by almost 24%.
The agency reported on Tuesday its COVID Data Tracker. 1,755 AmericansThe virus has claimed at least 18 lives since spring 2020 when the pandemic started. Now it reports 1,341 deaths.
The CDC said the number was revised March 15 due to a “coding logic error,” according to a footnote on the agency’s COVID Data Tracker. Pediatric death counts were not the only ones to be lowered — total deaths were reduced by roughly 70,000.
The debate over COVID-19’s risk to children has raged since the first infections were made known. Since at least April 2020, however, it has become clear that children are not at significant risk. It is not even enough to justify forcing them to wear masks or get them vaccinated (although some states do still insist on this).
But, the White House insists on child vaccination with COVID-19. The CDC’s higher pediatric death numbers just so happened to play into that narrative. I’ll let you decide whether it was truly a “mistake” or not, but color me suspicious. What is the way that a government agency with a budget of multi-billions can make a mistake like this? And it only gets “corrected” after the FDA rejects vaccination for small children? It’s just all a bit too convenient.
At this point, the CDC has made enough “mistakes,” including falsely framing numerous studies on child masking, that they don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt. Is Walensky still employed? The answer is likely because she’s a good soldier for the administration, and because of that, even with this latest error “corrected,” don’t expect the CDC to revise its overall messaging.
There is absolutely no reason to make children feel isolated or masked about COVID-19. These risks do not exist. Flu is more common in children than coronavirus. But there’s a lot of money to be made from pushing vaccines on kids, and the Biden administration seems completely invested in that endeavor.
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