In the Washington Post yesterday, Bill Gates called for CENTRALIZATON of power: “…we need a consistent nationwide approach to shutting down,” he wrote. “…the federal government needs to step up on testing,” he added. “…the country needs clear priorities for who is tested.” That was before pushing for a vaccine to be manufactured under the hand of “the federal government”.
What has the federalization of health already wrought? Here’s what:
“CDC’s primary job is Disease Control and prevention. CDC is a bloated federal agency with a long history of incompetence, fraud, publicly undisclosed shady financial partnerships with Big Pharmaceutical corporations. Its policies are under the influence of those corporate commercial interests that often collide with public health. Entrenched CDC bureaucrats occupy highest authoritative positions within the public health-industrial complex; they are hostile to all public efforts to hold them accountable, while they clamor for ever-ballooning budgets – now at $7 billion.”
“True to its past modus operandi of dictating which medical tests may be used to detect infectious diseases and which interventions must be used, CDC officials restricted testing for Covid-19 to all but a tiny number of those with compatible symptoms.”
The government ALREADY stepped up on testing, and it dispensed death:
“Had there been the availability of widespread reverse transcriptase PCR testing, or had other types of tests been made available, and if the US had been able to test cases with minimal or no symptoms, maybe the US or other nations could have instituted quarantines that stopped spread.
“But the CDC made the inexplicable decisions to restrict US testing by allowing only the test CDC had developed to be used, a test that was both unnecessarily cumbersome, and faulty, and to test only those who almost certainly were infected. This slowed down the development of better and more accessible tests by private, university and state public health labs.”
Bill Gates doesn’t know what he’s talking about concerning health policies. His recommendations in his op-ed can be dismissed out of hand. The least research will show that he’s asking us to shovel more money and power onto a losing approach to health, namely, federal control.
6:31 pm on April 1, 2020
