Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for telling CDC chair: ‘I dont want my staff educated’
Marjorie Taylor Greene got into an argument with the outgoing Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr Rochelle Walensky, at one point telling the public health leader, “I don’t want my staff educated”.
The Georgia Republican went off on Dr Walensky, who’s set to leave her post on 30 June, during a House Oversight Committee hearing regarding the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic on Tuesday.
Ms Greene asked the director about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), saying that “in 2021, Covid-19 reports skyrocketed to number one at 728,829 reports. And the numbers kept growing and growing and growing on the VAERS report”.
The people who should be embarrassed are the ones who voted for her. But I guarantee they are not.
Republican voters seem to think politics is a sport which only has real consequences when something directly affects them.
It is agenda #1 for Republicans.
Ever since the civil rights movement, conservatives have viewed public education as a threat to their bigoted and privileged way of life.
Propaganda surrounding public schools has been at the forefront of Republican groups for a long time.
First target was Blacks and Hispanics. Then it was science (evolution, biology). Then it was math. (Common core fake propaganda examples to paint schools as incompetent). Then it was LGTBQ.
And at the same time, for decades, they've pushed the idea of "private school vouchers", where parents can choose to not educate their children, and instead have the government pay private christian indoctrination centers to lie to their children and teach them meaningless and provably false mythology.
That way they can create generations of loyal uneducated cult members to vote for them and give them more and more power.
'I Don't Want My Staff Educated,' Marjorie Taylor Greene Tells CDC Boss In Exasperating Exchange
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday she didn’t want her staff educated after Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky offered to clarify the reporting procedure on COVID-19 vaccines for Greene’s team. (Watch the video below.)
It was basically an interrogation intended to humiliate Walensky in front of a House committee. The anti-vaxx lawmaker interpreted data from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, to baselessly suggest that an inordinate amount of Americans died from the shots, and suffered miscarriages and stillbirths.
Republicans love to have it both ways on this issue. They're against corporate taxes and public health insurance because it would stifle development and innovation yet are pissed off that these companies are now making money on their developments.
I think MTG needs to educate herself, her staff, and the American people about the fact that the VAERS system records comments from any source and most of it is unverified. It should not be used as an example of the actual number of adverse reactions to vaccines.
Case in point:
Medical experts at the Department of Health and Human Services are well aware of VAERS’ limitations. Rather than taking each individual report at face value, regulators remove clearly fraudulent reports. Demonstrating this, anesthesiologist and autism advocate James Laidler once used the system to report that a vaccine turned him into the “Incredible Hulk,” which was only removed after he agreed to have the data deleted.
The abuse of VAERS, an unvetted, self-reported vaccine side effects database, by anti-vaxxers for spreading anti-vaccine propaganda, has been going on for decades.
It’s difficult to see how the benefits of this system have outweighed the costs, particularly given that it is now being abused by sitting members of Congress to spread dangerous disinformation about vaccines.
It’s so funny how the “don’t trust the CDC” people will cite a CDC reporting system as soon as it fits their narrative. Too bad the VAERS site quite literally tells you on its front page to not make inferences from the data you see. I mean, there were reports in VAERS that the vaccine turned you into the Incredible Hulk.
A bunch of unverified reports go into a system with respect to a disease that was heavily politicized, and she wants to use that “information” in a committee hearing?
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