{"id":76914,"date":"2021-08-01T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76914"},"modified":"2021-08-01T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:47:33","slug":"cdc-totally-violates-the-trust-of-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=76914","title":{"rendered":"CDC Totally Violates the Trust of the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>CDC&#8217;s Walensky won&#8217;t admit illegals spreading COVID at border; promises &#8216;guidelines&#8217; someday<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Monica Showalter<br \/>\nAmericanThinker.com<\/p>\n<p>The more CDC director\u00a0Rochelle Walensky\u00a0talks, the\u00a0<strong>worse she sounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-07-31_12-00-32.jpg?itok=78sdFZNx\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-07-31_12-00-32.jpg?itok=78sdFZNx\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-07-31_12-00-32.jpg?itok=78sdFZNx\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"270\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9f164c95-8107-4194-bc1c-0eed38075b54\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along with\u00a0her well noted controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/29\/its-time-to-take-cdc-chief-rochelle-walensky-off-the-air\/\">statements<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/29\/anti-mask-a-winning-gop-message-for-2022-beyond\/\">returning to mask-wearing<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/baier-cdc-director-walensky-vaccine-mandate\">nationally mandated COVID vaccine<\/a>, the latter\u00a0of which she walked back to some extent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u00a0director threw out other\u00a0nutty\u00a0statements that are worth noting \u2014 if for nothing else, then the fact that Joe Biden says he defers to her and her\u00a0continuously mistaken\u00a0bureaucrats at CDC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/07\/30\/cdcs-walensky-cant-attribute-covid-rise-to-southern-border-american-south-really-quite-high\/\">Breitbart News<\/a>\u00a0reported that a question about illegal border-crossers\u00a0spreading COVID, from\u00a0Fox News&#8217;s Bret Baier, triggered this exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baier said, &#8220;But do you know the\u00a0surge, how the surge of illegal\u00a0immigrants with COVID is\u00a0affecting the overall rate, you\u00a0know, it sounds like the\u00a0percentages down there on the\u00a0border are astronomical?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walensky said, &#8220;<strong>Yeah, you know, I would say\u00a0that the percentages in the\u00a0southern part of this country\u00a0are really quite high. I\u00a0don&#8217;t necessarily think we can\u00a0attribute all of that to what&#8217;s\u00a0going on at the southern border.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u00a0think what we really need to\u00a0do is spend our time getting our\u00a0communities vaccinated to\u00a0getting our individuals\u00a0vaccinated to prevent disease\u00a0from transmitting in our\u00a0communities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Basically, she was attempting to brush off the obvious problem of unvetted illegal aliens coming into the U.S. and spreading COVID throughout the country.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0With the U.S. paying for their tickets, either by airplane or bus, to their choice of destinations, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that a disease vector, courtesy of the Biden administration, is in place.\u00a0\u00a0During the Trump administration, that avenue of spread was shut down firmly through Title 42, throwing illegal migrants back on COVID concerns, based on protecting the country.<\/p>\n<p>These days, there&#8217;s nonsense like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/07\/30\/cdcs-walensky-cant-attribute-covid-rise-to-southern-border-american-south-really-quite-high\/\">this going on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Baier said, &#8220;One woman wrote in, My\u00a0in-laws live in Austria, they\u00a0cannot come here to see their\u00a0six-month-old baby because of the\u00a0EU travel band even as migrants\u00a0come across the southern border\u00a0from other countries with more\u00a0COVID and worse vaccine\u00a0performance and they are allowed\u00a0in. Is that a problem, Dr. Walensky?<\/p>\n<p>Walensky said,<strong>\u00a0&#8220;We&#8217;re working, um, at the CDC\u00a0to provide technical assistance\u00a0for all areas of travel as well\u00a0as to provide technical\u00a0assistance at the southern\u00a0border. So as people come in, we\u00a0are keeping migrants, as well as\u00a0those communities, as safe as\u00a0possible with the technical\u00a0assistance and infection\u00a0prevention guidelines from the\u00a0CDC.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are also tweets like these being passed around:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1421252886990839811&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fcdcs-walensky-shrugs-idea-illegals-are-spreading-covid-border-promises-guidelines-someday&amp;sessionId=0f980d63cbe4ebf2dd777d80026cf60cbbfe3248&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=e9dfb5f%3A1627539779275&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1421252886990839811\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>[Note: That latter number is likely far higher.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The contradictions are pretty amazing here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/06-maskup-dt-1080-1050x750.jpg?itok=u3Vdfi9r\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/06-maskup-dt-1080-1050x750.jpg?itok=u3Vdfi9r\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/06-maskup-dt-1080-1050x750.jpg?itok=u3Vdfi9r\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"909d08dd-b15e-4f91-a3ee-ace010d78f61\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Walensky&#8217;s claim to be ready to send\u00a0&#8220;guidelines&#8221; is something she&#8217;s been talking about for months, but somehow has never gotten\u00a0around to doing.\u00a0\u00a0Here she was back in February, according to ABC News, promising all those\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/us-order-coming-week-border-asylum-restrictions-78827672\">migrant guidelines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CDC, in a three-paragraph order signed by its director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, on Feb. 11, exempted unaccompanied children from being expelled to Mexico until &#8220;a forthcoming public health reassessment,&#8221; which has yet to be published.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happened since, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/whistleblowers-say-they-were-told-downplay-covid-outbreak-among-migrant-n1275261\">NBC News three days ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Two more whistleblowers have come forward to allege that children were mistreated by contractors and senior federal employee managers at a Department Health and Human Services\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/border-crossings-surge-new-biden-immigration-plan-will-speed-asylum-n1275096\">migrant<\/a>\u00a0shelter in Fort Bliss, Texas,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/number-attempted-crossings-southern-u-s-border-hits-21-year-n1274230\">earlier this year<\/a>, and also say HHS told them to downplay hundreds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/biden-admin-rethinking-plan-lift-covid-restrictions-blocked-thousands-crossing-n1274506\">Covid infections<\/a>\u00a0among children held at the facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Covid was widespread among children and eventually spread to many employees. Hundreds of children contracted Covid in the overcrowded conditions. Adequate masks were not consistently provided to children, nor was their use consistently enforced,&#8221; the whistleblowers, Arthur Pearlstein and Lauren Reinhold, said in a federal whistleblower complaint filed Wednesday[.]<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of their service, they said, federal detailees were regularly given written instructions from HHS public affairs that told them, &#8220;when asked, to make everything sound positive about the Fort Bliss experience and to play down anything negative.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>And she&#8217;s still brushing off\u00a0that child migrants (many of whom reportedly catch COVID in U.S. detention centers before being dispersed through the U.S.) are spreading COVID?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0And she&#8217;s still working on her &#8220;guidelines&#8221;?\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s making so many television appearances that she can&#8217;t get around to doing her actual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edailybuzz.com\/2020\/12\/07\/dr-rochelle-walensky-wiki-bio-husband-parents-net-worth-2021-height-birthday-salary-children-wedding\/\">$188,063-salaried job<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Or perhaps she takes Kamala Harris as her role model, hoping to best her on the border-laziness front.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Walensky\u00a0hasn&#8217;t done anything about Title 42, which the Biden administration says it&#8217;s awaiting word\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/28\/white-house-border-covid-restrictions-501359\">from her on<\/a>\u00a0as a million\u00a0migrants stream in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment on the future of Title 42. A White House official said the lifting of Title 42 had never been planned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That decision will rest with the CDC and that public health process \u2014 as of right now there is no change in policy in Title 42, nor a timeline to preview or announce when it&#8217;s no longer needed,&#8221; the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s the current in-place guideline to throw back illegal migrants on COVID grounds.\u00a0\u00a0Joe Biden said he was going to lift it but then said it was up to Dr. Walensky to make that decision.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rather than affirmatively advise that it should stay in place based on all the migrant COVID-spreading, she&#8217;s actually said nothing, and Biden, being Biden, is supposedly\u00a0leaving it in place but not enforcing it, based on the kinds of statistics around open borders and migrant COVID-spreading that we are seeing now.\u00a0\u00a0Words, and rules, no longer have meaning to Biden, and she&#8217;s letting this go on and on as COVID spreads through the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As if that weren&#8217;t bad enough, she&#8217;s back to nonsense about everyone masking up, and\u00a0<strong>all she needs is two weeks to &#8220;stop the spread.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Heard that one before?\u00a0\u00a0How stupid does she think the public is?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the New York Post notes in its fierce editorial, it&#8217;s time to get this person\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/29\/its-time-to-take-cdc-chief-rochelle-walensky-off-the-air\/\">off the air<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0(Glenn Reynolds, writing at the Post, has a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/29\/anti-mask-a-winning-gop-message-for-2022-beyond\/\">good one<\/a>\u00a0saying similar,\u00a0too.)\u00a0\u00a0She&#8217;s got a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/bidens_cdc_chief_delivers_grim_public_service_message_with_bizarre_continuous_smile.html\">bizarre speaking style<\/a>, at times with strange, inappropriate giggles, and she&#8217;s constantly spewing disinformation, or shifting information, all of which blow apart her tattered credibility.\u00a0\u00a0Medical professionals are nothing without credibility, and Walensky is proving herself to be a colossal zero.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/cdc_director_rochelle_walensky_brushes_off_the_idea_of_illegals_spreading_covid_at_the_border_and_promises_guidelines_someday.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/cdc_director_rochelle_walensky_brushes_off_the_idea_of_illegals_spreading_covid_at_the_border_and_promises_guidelines_someday.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC&#8217;s Walensky won&#8217;t admit illegals spreading COVID at border; promises &#8216;guidelines&#8217; someday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}