The CDC’s in-your-face double standards lost America’s trust — winning it back will be tough
By Glenn H. Reynolds
Once again, our governing “elites” are illustrating their cluelessness about just how low the public’s opinion of them has sunk, and why.
The latest example involves Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who rage-quit his post last week after his bosses, noting the pandemic “emergency” is long over, ended special rules allowing for broad use of the COVID-19 shot.
“This is where fascism lives,” Daskalakis angrily declared as he and other Centers for Disease Control officials stalked off their jobs.
“Fascism” seems to be this administration’s most over-diagnosed ailment, applied with abandon to anything the left doesn’t like.
But Daskalakis’, uh, fevered response is exactly what you don’t want from a public health official.
In fact, given widespread public doubts about the COVID jab and the general debacle of the CDC’s COVID response, the last thing we need is a hysterical and politically extreme figure in charge of immunizations.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/opinion/the-cdcs-in-your-face-double-standards-lost-americas-trust/
.