Thread by @VPrasadMDMPH

Eventually politicians will strip CDC and other public health agencies of their power, and I won't be able to argue with them.

Why?
Public health misused and abused its powers

Closing beaches
Pouring sand into outdoor skateboard parks............
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Discouraging people from outdoor activities
Lying about the evidence for cloth masks in community settings
Lying about the evidence for masking outside
Not running any randomized control trials of masking in high income nations

Pushing masks on 2-year-olds in contrast with world health organization recommendations, evidence, and basic common sense

Culling animals
Using the police state to enforce lockdown

Not letting people hold their father's hand when their father dies.

Not letting people visit their mother when she's hospitalized

Closing schools

But just for poor kids who go to public school, rich kids get to go to school

Making testing companies rich by recommending unproven testing

Inventing a 6-ft distance

Enforcing stupid distances to make it hard to run school buses

Lowering the regulatory bar for vaccines

Lying about the myocarditis after the safety signal is found in Israel

Never making drug companies test lower doses in young men. Doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the risk.

Lying about natural immunity.

Repeatedly lying about it so you can force boosters on people who've already had covid, despite no evidence, and lacking biological rationale

Continuing the emergency state long after it's appropriate.

Continuing emergency powers when the emergency has passed

Vaccine passports

Discriminating against people by vaccine status.

Preventing Novak Djokovic from competing in US Open

Preventing Kyrie Irving from playing but he can watch the game.

Making children wear masks to go to the zoo in California in November 2022 to protect the animals who shouldn't be close to the kids anyway, and they're all outside anyway

Firing healthcare workers who got COVID-19 taking care of sick patients, because they didn't want to get a vaccine for the virus they had already had and cleared

Firing healthcare workers to the point that no one wants to work in healthcare anymore, and it is hard to staff

Discouraging people from getting routine health care.

Publishing propaganda in MMWR to justify your broken agenda

Funding the ecotrust dude after all the issues about where the virus is coming from.

Spending 10 billion on paxlovid without randomized data in vaccinated people

Spending billions on remdesivir when it doesn't do s***.

Spending so much money on useless tests, that faculty members quit universities to go run testing companies selling said useless tests

Using useless test to keep kids out of school.

Inventing unproven Quarantine policies to keep kids out of school

Closing Palo Alto schools, but leasing the space, so parents can drop their kids off in zoom school, wear an instructor who's an underpaid worker opens a laptop so they can take a class with their teacher.

If you stand back and consider the million things public health did to combat the pandemic, the ratio of incorrect to correct things might be 100,000 to one.

And doing all this without running a single cluster randomized trial to figure out anything. To just do it on a whim without data.

So as someone who has long believed in the value of the regulatory state, and long been a champion for increased funding of public health, if the politician asks me should we destroy the CDC, I would have to say 'yes, please and let me help you'

We have to totally destroy it, and try to build a new institution that actually uses science to guide policy, and realizes that You can never follow the science. Science can just articulate trade-offs, but all trade-offs must be decided by citizens.

Scientist advise, citizens decide

That was the mantra that public health experts did not adhere to, letting their narcissism and hubris drive policy. And somehow managing to run zero cluster randomized trials of NPIs

If you want to know about more public health failures, watch this video

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