βοΈ Coffee & Covid β Thursday, August 18, 2022 β REORGANIZED π¦
Alarming rates of cancer in the U.S.; CDC admits it made pandemic mistakes and announces full reorganization; Biden sets up another major public health agency on par with CDC,FDA: and lots more...
Good morning C&C, itβs Thursday! Iβm still playing catchup with my summer cold, which is why the post is late, but they say showing up is 90% of winning. So better late than never. Your roundup today includes: a C&C health update; cancer rates in the U.S. are alarming; the CDC admits it has made mistakes, and promises a top-to-bottom reorganization; Biden stands up a brand new health agency comparable to the CDC or FDA; Cheney out but threatening to punish her constituents by running for President; lawsuit against me and Governor DeSantis permanently dismissed; and odious Soros prosecutor Andrew Warren sues the Governor.
π*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* π
π‘οΈ Michelle and I contact-traced my infection to a toddlerβs birthday party I attended last weekend. She recalled that Iβd eaten two things off the well-handled food trays: a cold chicken wing and one small bunch of soft grapes. What can I tell you? Both items had almost certainly been closely inspected and then returned to the trays by two-year-olds who were more discerning that I was. So.
Itβs not covid. When I woke up yesterday and lurched out, blinking in the harsh kitchen light, I spotted a BinocNow home test kit strategically left by someone on the kitchen counter. It was a kind of passive spousal suggestion, if you know what I mean. As you can imagine, my first thought was, βIβm NOT doing that.β As I continued during the long day to visit to the kitchen for hydration, the test kit just sat there, staring at me, wearing me down, until I thought, βwell if I AM positive then at least I can scrape up some ivermectin and maybe knock this out faster.β
Plus, I thought, Iβm guest-lecturing at a law school class Friday morning, so I should be able to say Iβm negative.
So, shamefully, I took the damnable thing, dropping the toxic liquid into the little cardboard hole, rolling that giant q-tip around my nostrils, and waiting fifteen minutes, and of course, doing my part to enrich the governmentβs cherry-picked favorite pharma companies. The test result was negative. Iβm wasnβt happy or relieve to be negative; testing positive wouldnβt have bothered me at all. I had just talked myself into thinking the test made a difference over how I was treating the bug.
What can I tell you, itβs brain fog.
So anyway, itβs just a summer cold. I assume I had covid because I quarantined with my family twice while everyone was symptomatic and testing positive. But while the family got covid twice, Iβve never tested positive or even shown any symptoms. Weird.
This summer cold is not serious but itβs annoying, and I pray Iβm in the end stages now. I did get some better sleep yesterday after the sore throat cleared up, and I managed to break up the cement-like congestion some by building a tower of pillows, to the point my head was mostly vertical all night. By the morning, it was moving into my lungs, so Iβm popping Fishermanβs Friend lozenges for the uncontrollable coughing.
All this got me thinking about how I havenβt really been sick at all the last two and a half years. Lockdowns didnβt stop covid, but they might have stopped summer colds. At least I didnβt have to attend any toddler birthday parties. Anyway, Iβll still take a summer cold over the alternative.
π EthicalSkeptic, one of team realityβs most important independent analysts during the pandemic, reported yesterday that the CDCβs weekly deaths report shows cancer deaths flying off the charts. He pulls figures from the CDCβs MMWR β the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report β and graphs them.
Below is the graph of cancer deaths from 2014 through 2022 week 30. As you can see, the chart shows where the deaths basically leap up in a straight line β something thatβs never happened during the previous years β on MMWR week 14, 2021. Coincidentally, that week was also the rollout of vaccines to all age groups. As you can also see from the chart, cancer deaths are still rocketing up as of the latest figures (2022 week 30).
Itβs not just one data point. There are TONS of anecdotal reports from healthcare workers β doctors and nurses all over the country β reporting unprecedented levels of new cancer diagnoses as well as sudden renewals of old cancers. I would say the MMWR numbers corroborate the anecdotal reports.
Nobody is reporting the opposite, that cancer rates are down. Nobodyβs even saying cancer rates are flat. They just arenβt saying.
The system is designed to fail. Because the media, the public health agencies, politicians, and even frontline doctors all pushed the probable cause of this disaster, they are now structurally unable to acknowledge thereβs even a problem.
Remember that old nursery fairytale about the king with no clothes. Weβre living through that fairytale. You remember. The evil wizard sold the king a bunch of βinvisible clothesβ and made a fortune. The kingβs counselors and wise men were too scared of getting in trouble to say anything. So everybody had to pretend the invisible clothes didnβt cause cancer.
We need to find that kid, the one who finally called everybody out and broke the spell. Anyone have a line on him?
π₯ This week I compiled a very interesting set of three dots that we could try to connect. First, as you know, the CDC suddenly and unexpectedly changed its covid guidance last week, infuriating democrats and Branch Covidians, effectively ending all covid mitigations except its masking recommendation (it still has a pending lawsuit over that one).
We also know that the CDC has private access to the most recent, unpublished MMWR data. They get it before anyone else. Could there be something in the data thatβs even worse than what we can see? Maybe something that the CDC is trying to get ahead of by dumping the covid restrictions?
Youβll recall that the CDC is behind in its deaths reporting by over two months because it is βupgradingβ its system or something. They can see that data, but we canβt. But that is speculative.
What we also donβt know is WHY NOW? Why drop all the covid restrictions now? There is surely a reason, but the CDC hasnβt said, so we are left to speculate again.
Hereβs the next dot. Yesterday, Bloomberg ran a story headlined, βCDC Director Lays Out Overhaul of Agency After Pandemic Missteps.β
Wait, what?
Before I get into the details, letβs momentarily marinate in the fact the CDC apparently admitted that the agency has made βmisstepsβ β what normal people who speak English call βmistakes.β Maybe Iβve missed something, but I donβt think that the CDC has ever admitted ANY covid mistakes before. Thatβs news all by itself. Mistakes? The Gold Standard? Corporate media β long accepting almost everything the CDC has ever published as its gospel β should be blowing the admission of mistakes out of the loudspeakers.
But Bloomberg slid right past that historic development. Nothing to see here! Look at my OTHER hand.
Director Rochelle Walensky, who once infamously claimed to suffer from uncontrollable panic attacks over covid, gave her agency the bad news this week that it has βfailed to meet expectations,β which is what the HR department tells you right before they hand you your final paycheck and a pen to sign the severance agreement. She said:
βFor 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for Covid-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,β said Director Rochelle Walensky. βI want us all to do better and it starts with CDC leading the way. My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness.β
Accountability! Donβt make me laugh. Anyway, what were all these alleged mistakes? Bloomberg enumerated them:
The agency has been faulted for an inadequate testing and surveillance program, for not collecting important data on how the virus was spreading and how vaccines were performing, for being too under the influence of the White House during the Trump administration and for repeated challenges communicating to a politically divided and sometimes skeptical public.
Okay. Couple thoughts. First, what do they mean about faulting the CDC βfor not collecting important data on β¦ how the vaccines were performingβ? I thought the vaccines were performing GREAT? Is there something there, or am I failing to read it the right way?
And see how they neatly slid a Trump slam in there? Anyway, they forget to add the time the CDC got debunked by corporate media over its maniacal outdoor-masking guidance. But I havenβt forgotten.
You might be wondering, like I am, exactly what the βreorganizationβ is supposed to actually DO, specifically. While the article lists a bunch of fuzzy, happy-sounding goals like βimproving relationships with other agencies,β the only concrete change mentioned in the article was creating a new department in the CDC for βhealth equity,β which I bet weβre going to just LOVE once we hear about whatever it does. And I bet whatever it does is going to be wildly expensive.
The article said that Walensky started her βreviewβ back in April. Hmm.
Anyway. Again, we donβt know WHY the CDC is announcing a major reorganization and admitting mistakes NOW. Which is right around the same time that it also dropped most of its covid guidance. It could be a coincidence.
But Iβll add that government agencies always βreorganizeβ whenever they get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, so that when the Congressional hearings start, officials can say, βwe already addressed those problems in the reorganization.β
Now letβs look at the third dot.
π₯ The third βdotβ was a quiet, wild, out of left-field announcement last month that looks relevant in this new context. The Washington Post ran a story last month headlined, βOfficials Reorganize HHS to Boost Pandemic Response.β Another reorganization! But check out the sub-headline: βPlan would elevate ASPR, which plays key role in emergencies, to be an agency on par with CDC, FDA.β Creating a new agency as important as the CDC or FDA seems like big news. But you probably heard nothing about it.
In its lead paragraph, WaPo explained:
The Biden administration is reorganizing the federal health department to create an independent division that would lead the nationβs pandemic response, amid frustrations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There it is again. βFrustrations with the CDC.β I thought the CDC was βthe gold standard.β Where did all these frustrations come from? When did Biden ever express frustration with the CDC? Why hasnβt Joe replaced Walensky if heβs so frustrated?
The ASPR is the bureaucratically-named βOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.β It currently has about 1,000 employees, has a primary mission of preparing for bioterror attacks, but last month was elevated to its own βdivision,β which puts it at the same level in the org chart as the CDC and the FDA. The article says the new division will be phased in over the next two years and will be responsible for responding to all emerging health threats.
It sounds a whole lot like theyβre standing up a potential replacement for the CDC in case anything were to happen to that tarnished gold standard, maybe like disgruntled lawmakers pulling the plug on the failing agency, or at least taking pandemics away from it.
Another fact that stood out to me was that this is all coming the pike down pretty fast. The article reported, βsome senior Biden administration officials said they were unaware of the plan to reorganize the department, which was approved by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and has been held close by his deputies.β
Unaware? The new agency took Biden officials by surprise? It guess it was like monkeypox, striking when you least expected it and just minding your own business and having a great time at the festival.
Was the quiet βreorganizationβ of the ASPR somehow coordinated with or connected to the βreorganizationβ at the CDC? Does Biden think that pandemics are going to have to be taken away from the CDC, for some reason? All the signs suggest that something big is coming, something that will make the CDC look awful and in need of a top-to-bottom overhaul, and the government is getting ready to be able to say theyβve already fixed it.
π₯ Liz Cheney is now, officially, out. Buh-bye! The remaining damage she can do is limited to just the next three and a half months. And her profoundly disastrous performance in the Wyoming primary completely undermines whatever authority she might have had on the monstrous J6 Committee.
Youβd think that after a drubbing like Cheney just received, she would take some quiet time for reflection; maybe retreat for a few days, and contemplate how she got so sideways with her constituents.
But no. Not Liz. Defiant till the end, she is floating the idea of running for PRESIDENT β as an independent, since Republicans hate her so much.


If she did run, it would be as a spoiler, to try to siphon votes from the Republican candidate, whether itβs Trump or DeSantis. Haha, maybe it would, but sheβd also siphon votes from disaffected democrats. Thereβs no way to tell how it would shake out.
I think she should do it. Let her be the βconservativeβ Bernie Sanders.
π₯ Earlier this week, a federal judge in the Northern District of Florida dismissed a lawsuit against me and Governor DeSantis, that was filed by former school board member Diyonne McGraw. The gist was that last year, I filed a lawsuit as part of an effort to remove her from office since McGraw lived about 300 feet outside her school board district. Once I got an order from the judge finding that she did not live in her district, the Governor helpfully declared her seat vacant and appointed her replacement.
Understandably unhappy about being removed, Ms. McGraw sued me and the Governor, alleging that weβd conspired to violate her civil rights by depriving her of her βright to voteβ or something. It took several months, and she got two tries to plead a legitimate claim, but now itβs all done.
Iβm not sure McGraw ever believed she could win the lawsuit. The process is the punishment. Itβs intended to discourage lawyers like me from taking these kinds of cases. In this case, it didnβt work, because for me, it just makes it personal, and making it personal just makes me work that much harder. So.
π₯ Fox ran a story yesterday headlined, βFlorida Prosecutor Andrew Warren Sues Gov. Ron DeSantis Over Suspension.β Last month, Governor DeSantis suspended Tampa District Attorney Andrew Warren because heβd publicly said he was refusing to prosecute duly-enacted Florida laws banning CRT and grooming in schools, and even sent out a departmental policy describing a βpresumption of non-enforcementβ for a list of crimes.
The governorβs executive order removing him said that βthese statements prove that Warren thinks he has authority to defy the Florida Legislature and nullify in his jurisdiction criminal laws with which he disagrees[.]β Calling Warren βone of these Soros prosecutors,β DeSantis suspended him for failing to do his duty and for incompetence, and appointed an interim replacement.
Now, of course, Warren has sued DeSantis, alleging the Governor violated his First Amendment right to say whatever dumb thing occurs to his little pea brain. His lawsuit tracks another lawsuit of dishonor, that of cowardly Sheriff Scott Israel, who DeSantis removed for refusing to let his officers enter a Broward school during an active shooting. I suspect Warrenβs lawsuit will end the same way as Israelβs, who isnβt a sheriff anymore, is he?
Former DA Andrew Warren seems like the kind of guy who would get his Dalmatian infected with monkeypox. I mean by letting it sleep in the bed, of course. What did you think I meant?
Have a terrific Thursday! Iβll see you back here tomorrow morning for more.
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Results in a database or not, I have not taken a single covid test ... ever. Seeing how long this will last. I also wanted to be the last person on earth to carry a cell phone, but failed at that. My resistance so far for the tests, holding strong. I have had to make changes to my lifestyle, but worth it to me.
There is no reorganizing of the CDC and its bedfellows.
It's simply a case of "..but honey, I've changed." Umm, no.
The only way they regain trust is to all quit and never come back.