Abolish the CDC! 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is useless and even harmful to the country. With the advent of the Corona Virus (aka. COVID-19), people are asking if wearing respirators, aka. masks, will help keep them from becoming infected with the virus. The answer the CDC is giving is confusing , contradictory and actually harmful to the public.

Their website states: “For the general American public, there is no added health benefit to wear a respiratory protective device (such as an N95 respirator).” And the FDA goes even further, stating this headline: “N95 Respirators Not for Use by the Public.”

The CDC’s advice is contradicted by their own documentation.  They have this advice for medical professionals. “Use respiratory protection that is at least as protective as a fit-tested NIOSH-certified disposable N95 filtering facepiece [sic] respirator before entry into the patient room or care area.” This is consistent with the CDC’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) rule 42 CFR 84 which certifies N95 respirators to catch 95% of particles 0.3 microns or larger. Viral pathogens are larger than 0.3 microns which means they are caught by N95 respirators. Respirators are protective, but the proletariat masses shouldn’t have them, according to our government.

It gets worse. Again according to CDC’s website, “Older people and people with certain underlying health conditions like heart disease, lung disease and diabetes, for example, seem to be at greater risk of serious illness.” Most of the deaths from Corona have been from this population. Why then is the CDC not at least recommending respirators for  this community?

So with a deadly virus in our midst, why is the CDC recommending that the general public not wear respirators, which by their own definitions are protective? I could speculate, but I won’t. I don’t know the answer. But the facts are that 1) N95 respirators are protective against exposure to viral agents and 2) we are being told by the CDC they are not.

The press and others are happy to repeat the lies. The press regularly changes “no added health benefit” to “should not wear them.”  Just this morning, Surgeon General Jerome Adams stated that respirators are not for the general public. He made the incorrect advice even more harmful by stating that wearing respirators can actually increase our risk of contacting Corona. The reason: because we don’t know how to wear them and they will make us overconfident! That is an insulting statement designed to support an obviously incorrect recommendation.

The CDC should issue factual recommendations which actually help prevent the spread of disease, or be abolished. The press should be more curious about recommendations which are false on their face. And it should be a crime for high-level government agents such as the Surgeon General to spout such nationally-harmful lies.