Many, if not most of the epidemiologists at the CDC hold M.Ds, and I can speak from personal experience that many have disdain for both political parties
For example there is a lot of frustration at how the media is making a giant scare about Monkeypox, when it is isolated to certain communities and can be prevented with the smallpox vaccine which we already have stockpiled.
> they operate as surveillance organizations with the same kind of secrecy culture as intelligence work
This is blatantly false - the CDC publishes almost everything it does. Mostly boring statistics, reporting, investigating claims
>public health agencies have become a para-intelligence services with explicitly political aims
Really?
>I think they have discredited themselves over travel bans, vax passports, the objectively insane and poisonous rhetoric about the "hesitant,"
You should visit the CDC's public museum in Atlanta - I think you will see all the good that vaccines and antibiotics have done for the world. Little else in medicine matters, comparatively, in terms of increased lifespans around the globe
I read parent as talking about things that happened during covid. Do the measures around covid deserve the same kind of reverence that things like penicilin (why are antibiotics relevant in this thread anyway?) or the first vaccines do?