Imagine providing public statements like these and the receiving
media doesn't question, doesn't push further, or deliver devastating
contradictions. Just imagine.
Imagine saying things like this and not having to correct or
revise your statements. Imagine saying things like and being self-deluded
that your statements are a public service. Just imagine. Imagine
the bankrupt ethics, the deliberate lies that go unchallenged. Imagine
that.
Imagine this being standard operating procedure . . . for 20
years.
As I have noted
periodically for twenty years, and it was roundly confirmed 4 weeks ago in the NY Times, CDC spins and
cherry-picks the data it presents to the public, hiding most of what it has.
Then it blames its 'outdated' IT systems for the problems, if it gets caught.
As the NYT noted,
The C.D.C. has received more than $1 billion to
modernize its systems, which may help pick up the pace, Ms. Nordlund [CDC's
spokesperson] said. “We’re working on that,” she said.
So imagine having a record like that while
receiving $1 billion with a B from the taxpayer you're purported to
serve. Make no mistake, there is no purporting, no purportment going on
at all.
Some have claimed that the CDC is a vaccine
company. What? Some have claimed that it is a PR branch for the FDA
or any pharmaceutical company peddling its latest unchecked medicine.
Nass goes even further, affirming that it's a PR firm with its own TV studios
replete
CDC is not a public health
agency. It is a public propaganda agency that collects a massive amount
of data. CDC marshals its huge data library to create presentations that
support the current administration's public health policies.
CDC also has state-of-the-art PR staff,
as well as TV studios, and produces videos, radio
spots, and an enormous number of press releases that are distributed to the
media. CDC hosts many journalists at its Atlantia headquarters. Free
junkets successfully cultivate US health reporters.
And finally, to end this preface,
A 2007 Senate oversight report on
the CDC noted the agency spent $106 million on the Thomas R. Harkin Global
Communications (and Visitor) Center, and summarized its 115 page report with
the following: “A review of how an agency
tasked with fighting and preventing disease has spent hundreds of millions of
tax dollars for failed prevention efforts, international junkets, and lavish
facilities, but cannot demonstrate it is controlling disease.”
