It’s been reported that Attorney General Barr would like to put someone in the pokey for sedition, and so I have an idea for him:
A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as internal documents obtained by The New York Times.
The guidance said it was not necessary to test people without symptoms of Covid-19 even if they had been exposed to the virus. It came at a time when public health experts were pushing for more testing rather than less, and administration officials told The Times that the document was a C.D.C. product and had been revised with input from the agency’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield.
But officials told The Times this week that the Department of Health and Human Services did the rewriting and then “dropped” it into the C.D.C.’s public website, flouting the agency’s strict scientific review process. [The New York Times]
Perhaps I’m naive, but it seems to me that deliberately distributing false, dangerous medical advice while holding an influential government position in order to further political ambitions should be considered sedition. It weakens the citizenry, making them vulnerable to foreign powers.
At best, it’s dereliction of duty.
Have at it, AG Barr. Protesting to be treated equally is hardly sedition; indeed, it’s encouraging the United States and its constituents states and municipalities to follow its own rules. I recognize this may be hard, as everyone appears to be washing their hands of it – if you’ll forgive the medical humor – and chasing after your ideological allies is always a painful business, but I’m sure we have full confidence that you’ll charge on ahead, full of that old Justice Is Blind To Ideology fever.
Ummmm … ummmm … AG Barr? AG Barr? Are you there?
