The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention descended into turmoil this week after Health Secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted the agency’s director, Susan Monarez, who had just weeks ago been confirmed by the Senate and earned Kennedy’s praise for her “unimpeachable scientific credentials.”
It appears those scientific chops are what led to her swift downfall. Since the Department of Health and Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that “Susan Monarez is no longer director” of the CDC, media reports have revealed that her forced removal was over her refusal to bend to Kennedy’s anti-vaccine, anti-science agenda…
Like-minded coalitions of states should band together and start doing for themselves what the feds no longer will. Form the New England Center for Disease Control. The California and Pacific Northwest Vaccine Advisory Commission. The Mid-Atlantic Department of Education.
Don’t call it secession per se. Just groups of concerned state governments doing what needs to be done to protect their citizens’ best interests.
Saw a story in this direction just last week (maybe that’s what you’re referring to but it sounded like a hypothetical)
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