March 29, 2021 Rochelle Walensky, Director of CDC, infamously declared on MSNBC:
"Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick."
Emails obtained by FOIA from Jan 30, 2021 show that Walensky knew this was a lie at the time she said it.
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See for yourself.
Without these lies, unconstitutional vaccine mandates would have been much more difficult to argue in court.
That's why she lied.
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The claims made by Walensky ended up in arguments at the Supreme Court, influencing Biden vs. Missouri (a 5-4 decision) about COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers at facilities receiving federal funding.
And a huge impact on vaccine mandates more broadly.
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The outcome, as @galexybrane reported, were mass persecutions and the destruction of people's lives throughout the Western world.
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Some of those who did go along with the mandates experienced life-threatening complications, like myself. Some people died. All because we were brainwashed or bullied into getting a vaccination that didn't stop the spread of the virus.
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Furthermore, without these lies about transmission, the global campaign stigmatizing the unvaccinated people (who were largely low-income) and scapegoating them for the pandemic would not have been possible.
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Now, the science.
Immediately after Walensky made these claims, the scientific community erupted, expressing concerns that they would undermine public trust.
Here's from the New York Times.
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Here's an article published in Nature in March 2020 that articulated similar concerns, though more systematically.
This article would turn out to be remarkably prescient, but the points made were widely known by the scientific community.
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Take a World Health Organization virtual press conference back in December 2020.
Repeatedly the top scientists at WHO emphasized the lack of impact of the vaccine on transmission, the problem of new variants, waning immunity, etc.
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Yet, Walensky presented only one side of the story, which scientists knew risked undermining trust.
Why?
She had an agenda. Deceive the courts, browbeat the employers, impose the mandates by fiat.
Truth, science, transparency, honesty, public trust be damned.
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Later, at an event at Washington University at St. Louis, Walensky would express astonishment that her claims would have all turn out to be wrong and that nobody predicted what happened with the vaccine.
But as we have seen this is a complete lie.
The formula: lie, lie, lie.
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After her claims on MSNBC, Walensky didn't stop spreading these lies, and neither did Fauci.
They went on a media campaign for months making these claims.
Where were the doctors and scientists who are saying that RFK Jr. is undermining the CDC when this was happening?
You were silent then. You are silent now. You do not care about science.
You care about social media engagement, about propagandizing to your braying and ignorant colleagues.
You are partisan liars.
You spent the last 5 years destroying science and supporting the CDC in doing so.
The hypocrisy of you people saying ANYTHING about RFK Jr. and the CDC now is disgusting.
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