RFK jr.: We're Restoring Trust in the CDC

It easy to sound reasonable for a few paragraphs--but Kennedy certainly does so here.

I don't know enough to have much of an opinion about the overall thrust of the thing, but I agree with this bit:

Today, only half of the CDC’s budget supports its infectious-disease mission. Fewer than 1 in 10 employees are epidemiologists. That drift explains much of the agency’s disastrous pandemic response. The Biden administration’s restructuring failed to solve the problem. It made a priority of health equity while ignoring the central issue: The CDC has strayed from its core mission.
We have shown what a focused CDC can achieve. When measles flared this year in Texas, we brought vaccines, therapeutics and resources to the epicenter. The outbreak ended quickly, proving the CDC can act swiftly with precision when guided by science and freed from ideology. That response was neither “pro-vax” nor “antivax.” It wasn’t distracted by “equity outcomes” or politically correct language like “pregnant people.” It was effective. And effectiveness—not politics—will be the watchword of our leadership.

CDC has spewed woke nonsense about e.g. "stigma" since at least the pandemic. Dewokification is obviously needed.

   Though: 1/10 employees being epidemiologists doesn't strike me as at all unreasonable. How many people--secretaries, janitorial staff, librarians, IT guys...not to mention statisticians, lab techs, etc....are needed to support the work of each epidemiologist? Not to mention Special Ops teams and whatnot that I dearly hope they have to HALO in and squash zombie virus outbreaks, unfrozen prehistoric Siberian worms, international bioterrorists and the like...

   One last thing: I kinda doubt that we had 19% of the world's covid deaths. But maybe. Why? I thought it was because we're a bunch of fatties. And olds. But I don't know.