7:15:22

It will never end

“I can’t tell you how many people at the FDA have told me, ‘I don’t like any of this, but I just need to make it to my retirement,’” an anonymous FDA official told Dr. Marty Makari and Dr. Tracy Høeg, who just published a joint Substack headlined, “U.S. Public Health Agencies Aren’t ‘Following the Science,’ Officials Say.”

Another senior FDA official lamented, 'It’s like a horror movie I’m being forced to watch and I can’t close my eyes. People are getting bad advice and we can’t say anything.'

Meaning, people are getting bad advice from HIS agency — the FDA.

Makary and Høeg say that they are getting lots of calls from doctors and scientists at the CDC, FDA, and NIH. The agency workers are complaining about low morale, high turnover, and short staffing. One complained, 'Things have become so political, so what are we there for?' Another CDC scientist admitted, 'I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed.'

According to the authors, the agency employees have been bullied into silence by rampant cancel culture, so they don’t or can’t say anything about their concerns in their official capacities. Thus, they stay off the office radar, using private Signal chats for mutual support and to vent frustrations.

According to the article, the main concerns expressed by the unhappy scientists are the harms to children from lockdowns, and the recent decisions at the FDA and CDC to approve covid shots for infants and toddlers — without any evidence of efficacy, never mind any evidence that could possibly justify the risks.

I sympathize with their plight, I really do. But America needs folks in the federal agencies to DO SOMETHING. Speak up if you can. Whistleblow. Leak when you can, legally. Find a way to help. Don’t just complain about it. Don’t just wait out your retirement and punch your ticket.

If you take action to help, you’ll like yourself more, and things will work out fine, one way or the other. Just think about it."

-Coffee and Covid, July 15, 2022