It’s been lower than a month since Patrick Joseph White, fueled by the identical COVID-19 conspiracies the Trump administration now endorses, tried to homicide Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention workers.
Now, management on the CDC is specializing in what’s actually vital: forcing these staff to return to the workplace by Sept. 15.
The Aug. 28 announcement got here from CDC Chief Working Officer Lynda Chapman throughout her first week on the job. This isn’t actually shocking from Chapman, who obtained her place not as a result of she has any public well being experience, nor any expertise overseeing authorities companies. She does, nevertheless, have an internet site the place she sells photographs of President Donald Trump.
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta
The Trump administration has completed its ordinary job of attempting to spin her meager expertise as an lawyer and a pharmacist as excess of it really is, pretending that she’s a meritocratic selection moderately than one other Trump hanger-on who obtained a high-level job.
Nonetheless, Chapman’s disregard for CDC staff is surprising. Union leaders have spoken out about how bullet holes and different injury to the constructing will possible nonetheless be seen when workers are pressured to return. Although, after all, the Trump crew has additionally declared that it not acknowledges the union representing CDC staff.
However Chapman isn’t even pretending that some places of work broken by the mass taking pictures shall be prepared, as an alternative saying that “alternative on-campus space will be provided.”
It’s fairly the choice to demand staff to return again to places of work that you simply haven’t but managed to restore.
Maybe staff can take consolation within the phrases of Chapman’s predecessor, Christa Capozzola, who primarily advised them that safety efforts are a secret.
A constructing pockmarked with bullet holes and obscure guarantees of safety … I actually can’t think about how staff aren’t simply itching to return.
The return to work order comes on the heels of CDC management’s refusal to present workers any day off within the aftermath of the taking pictures, thus making their absolute contempt for the employees crystal clear.
From the beginning, Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dealing with of the taking pictures was abysmal. It took him 18 hours to submit essentially the most banal response, and he did that solely after posting some footage of his fishing journey. And to at the present time, Trump has not made an announcement concerning the taking pictures.
Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits beside President Donald Trump.
However why would both of them condemn the shooter, actually? His COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies are their very own.
In the meantime, Kennedy has been speaking with CDC workers—however solely to inform them how a lot they suck and the way nice his ever-rotating solid of unqualified high-level officers is.
Buddy, you simply put in Jim O’Neill because the appearing head of the CDC. O’Neill is many issues: a Peter Thiel acolyte, an ivermectin fanatic, and an anti-vaxxer. However you realize what he’s not? Somebody with any medical or scientific coaching. He’s a biotech investor with a grasp’s diploma in humanities.
It’s exhausting watching the Trump administration fake that wildly unqualified individuals like O’Neill and Chapman are essentially the most meritocratic selections.
However when Trump’s solely requirement for employment is agreeing with something he says, there’s no debating that these two are good for the job.
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