One million dead, but the CDC is "Still the Same"

Last update: Saturday 5/14/22 

The editor of this blog never liked Bob Seger's classic, "Still the Same", perhaps because, like other earwigs, whenever this song popped into his head he couldn't make it stop. Our imminent tragic achievement of one million deaths from COVID has triggered unwelcome memories of the many blunders committed by the CDC under both presidents, Trump and Biden, blunders that have surely been responsible for hundreds of thousands of those one million lost lives. So it's not surprising that the editor found himself humming Seger's catchy little tune many times in the last few weeks.

Why has the CDC gotten away with its serial acts of gross incompetence? Why did the mainstream media hang all of the blame for our mismanagement of the first year of the pandemic on President Trump? And why is this same media now blaming President Biden?  Given that our death rates from COVID are much, much higher than the death rates in every other wealthy country in the world, why aren't protesters commemorating the million lost lives by marching in front of the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta everyday, loudly shouting "American lives matter!!!"?

The editor will turn 81 on his next birthday, the same age as Dr. Fauci, so he, like the good doctor, gives serious daily consideration to his personal risk. That's why he takes the CDC's frequent misguidance personally; the CDC's blunders heighten his risk of exposure to a lethal virus that targets the oldest members of our society.

Nowadays we live in the "Age of Omicron and its Sub-variants", but how many can recall its predecessor, the "Age of Delta"? That bygone era, eons ago, last summer, was triggered by a variant that was far more lethal than its predecessors, more transmissible, and produced surprising numbers of breakthrough cases who became undetected spreaders of the virus. Unfortunately,  the CDC could not give timely warning about these breakthroughs because it had stopped looking for breakthroughs a few months earlier, certain that breakthroughs would always be rare.  If your memory of Delta is a bit fuzzy, have a quick read of one of last year's posts on this blog:

• "Is the CDC misguiding us again, this time with regards to Delta breakthrough infections???",  Last update: 8/13/21

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Links to related notes on this blog:  

• "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!!!", Last update: 5/21/22