Why Isn’t It 100%?
If the CDC isn’t forcing their employees to be fully vaccinated why should others?
On Thursday, Nov. 4, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director declined to share how many of the agency’s workers have received a COVID-19 vaccine with a Senate panel.
In the clips below, you’ll watch Senator Bill Cassidy do an excellent job questioning Rachael Walensky. Unfortunately, she avoids answering almost every question. She’s either unqualified for this job, doesn’t take her job seriously, or thinks her job is to obfuscate.
This agency has been at the forefront of pushing COVID-19 vaccination during the pandemic since the first vaccine received emergency authorization late last year. Meanwhile, the heroes of 2020 are losing their jobs because they are not given a choice to be tested regularly or show antibodies from prior infection. Those frontline workers who were celebrated during the height of the pandemic are now vilified. They’re forced to get a COVID vaccine to remain employed, and they've been pushed out of their jobs or put on unpaid leave, even though they put their lives on the lines when there was no vaccine available to them.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the top Republican on the panel, revisited the topic just before the hearing ended.
“Do you really not know the answer to the number of vaccinated individuals at CDC, or did you just not want to answer Sen. Cassidy’s question?” Burr asked.
Walensky declined to answer directly.
“We’re still actively working on collecting those data and those data are updated in real-time,” she said.
Burr asked for the numbers to be sent to the committee by Nov. 8.
“We are working toward updating that data. I would have to speak with my staff about where we are and whether those numbers are going to be available on Monday,” Walensky said.
One of President Joe Biden’s recent mandates says all federal employees, including CDC workers, must produce proof of vaccination by Nov. 8 or face disciplinary action.
“If the collection is still in process, how are you going to start disciplinary actions based upon the executive order?” Burr asked.
“We’re actively updating those data. I just don’t know exactly when they will be fully in, but certainly we will have those data by the appropriate deadline,” Walensky said.
Burr then asked, “If the CDC doesn’t have to live by the rules, why should employers have to live by the mandate rules?”
“I will make sure we’re complying with the rules because we want everyone else to as well,” Walensky said.
Rules for thee…
She should resign.
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This is 100% accurate
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'She’s either unqualified for this job, doesn’t take her job seriously, or thinks her job is to obfuscate.'
Select all three, and you have a job description for everyone on public payroll. Has to do with why I do as little business with the drooling pack of them as possible.
Someday, probably around the time Greta Thunberg is made SecGen of the UN and seeks to outlaw pretty much everything, folks will start to figure that out.