In Texas last month, a doctor named Hasan Gokal lost his job as head COVID-19 response coordinator at the Harris County Public Health Department. He was in possession of 10 doses of COVID vaccine that had been opened and would expire in six hours if not used. Not wanting the life-saving medicine to go to waste, Dr. Gokal scrambled to find people who would take it. One of them was his wife, who he injected with the final dose 15 minutes before it would have expired. For the transgression of practicing medicine, he was also charged with a misdemeanor by a lunatic district attorney.
When Dr. Gokal was fired, a human resources representative questioned the lack of “equity” in his choices, implying he had vaccinated too many people of Indian descent. Better no one get the vaccine than the wrong people, I suppose.
In Miami, 30 million precious N95 masks — among the most coveted pieces of gear for America’s health-care providers — sat idle for months in a warehouse in a country starved for them. Why? Our national system for getting DemeTech’s masks — along with other small private suppliers — into the national supply chain is so complicated, convoluted and impenetrable that the masks just sat there unused. Only after the New York Times highlighted the insanity did President Joe Biden’s coronavirus response coordinator, Jeffrey D. Zients, finally intervene.
'Listen to the science'? Biden's school reopening fiasco shows unions really have his ear, not "science"
In Washington, President Biden sits in the White House after promising to “listen to the science” in beating the coronavirus. He would never interfere with scientists, he said, over and over and over.
And yet, less than a month into his term, that’s exactly what his White House is doing. His Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, said on Feb. 5 that “There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that … vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools.”
Bold move, Rochelle. You just got between Democrats and the teachers’ unions. Immediately, Biden’s spokesperson issued a statement saying Walensky was “speaking in her personal capacity,” a nonsensical smackdown of a top government scientist.
The Biden White House then issued a statement saying it was the president’s goal to open schools at least one day a week, part of their “bold, ambitious agenda.” And then it forced the CDC to issue guidance that attached school openings to local transmission rates, which the CDC has previously admitted are not connected (schools have low rates and are not a meaningful driver of COVID spread). The new CDC guidance effectively means schools may never open in many places.
The Biden school opening fiasco is a deeply cynical, flawed and unserious approach to one of the biggest problems facing our society — the serious damage done to our children by keeping them out of school.
Abuse. Suicide. Malnutrition. Academic failures. Consequences all happening because Democrats won’t open the schools in many places. Jake Tapper’s takedown of the CDC’s Dr. Walensky on CNN Sunday morning is worth the watch; Biden is wrong on schools and she knows it, but she’s obviously been kneecapped by the union’s political thugs over at the White House.
What is our nation’s future if we continue down this unserious path? Punishing doctors. Locking up medical equipment. Treating the “QAnon Shaman” better than we treat our children. Regressing into political adolescents. Putting union bosses ahead of scientists.
Bleak, that’s what.
