COVID-19 has brought tough times for public health officials, or so reports The New York Times:
Throughout the entire article, The New York Times portrays public health officials as dedicated truth-seeking servants, committed only to science and the public good.
Nowhere does The New York Times ever mention any of the many times public health officials have blatantly placed politics above science.
For example, in August 2020, Montgomery County health officer Travis Gayles shut down not just all county public schools but also all county private schools without ever even reviewing the private schools’ COVID-19 mitigation plans. The Democrats who run the county did not want public school students falling behind their private school counterparts.
“The privileged class of the county is showing their behinds,” Gayles wrote in an email referring to those parents who dared to question his decision to ban private schooling during COVID-19 in Montgomery County.
“Absolute arrogance and privilege,” added deputy health officer James Bridgers to the email chain.
Gayles’s private school ban was eventually overruled by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and approximately 8,000 students and a few hundred staff were able to go back to school. Not a single one of them died from COVID-19. Gayles soon resigned.
Public health officials further undermined their credibility by first coming down hard against COVID-19 lockdown protesters but then famously endorsing Black Lives Matter protesters.
Over 1,200 public health professionals ended up signing a letter in June 2020 that “prioritizes opposition to racism as vital to the public health” and urged officials “not to suppress protests in the name of public health but to respond to protesters demands in the name of public health.”
There is no science behind any of these claims. These are all purely political thoughts masquerading as science.
The public health community has long since been taken over by liberal activists who place politics high above science, truth, and public health. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exposed those in the public health profession as the political frauds they are.
