It sounds reasonable and maybe — just maybe — it could be possible that the stumbling and bumbling that the FDA and CDC went through as they imposed one ridiculous regulation after another during the COVID pandemic have incentivized politicians to think of stripping them of their powers.
If it sounds dubious, Dr. Vinay Prasad has tweeted a thread full of inept decisions health agencies have made in the past three years that would warrant looking at whether they should be allowed to continue operating. For example, they abused and misused their powers by:
- Closing beaches
- Pouring sand in outdoor skate parks
- 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 lockdowns
- Not letting people hold their father's hand when their father dies.
- Not letting people visit their mother when she's hospitalized
The list goes on, but what’s obvious when they’re all considered together, is that it seems reasonable to consider stripping these agencies of their jobs. What do you think?
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Twitter Dr. Vinay Prasad November 2, 2022