Posted on 06/12/2023 9:49:45 AM PDT by John Semmens
Dr. Howard Zucker, the New York State Department of Health Commissioner who aided and abetted Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deadly decision to send covid-infected oldsters into nursing homes during the early days of the pandemic, has now been named a deputy director for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Outgoing Director of the CDC Rochelle Walensky cited Zucker's experience "as a prime factor in his appointment to the CDC. I know that some will question the value of that experience in light of the fact that he helped implement one of the most damaging mistakes made by a public official during the pandemic. But mistakes teach us important lessons. Rather than cast aside the knowledge he undoubtedly has gained from that mistake we have put him in a position where his future actions can have a broader scope of impact."
Christopher Laxton, the head of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, called Zucker's elevation "inexplicable. Not only did he show poor judgment in rubber-stamping Gov. Cuomo's ignorant mandate, he later participated in the creation of propaganda meant to cover up the disastrous outcome. Later he tried to impede an audit by the State Comptroller's office that found that Zucker and other top leaders intentionally misled the public. Does the nation deserve to have this kind of blunderer and liar sitting within the CDC?"
Speaking of top leaders misleading the public, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) blamed the smoke from Canadian forest fires that gave the state its worst air pollution since the 1960s on global climate change, saying "wildfires of unnatural strength continue blazing in Canada, sending toxic air and smoke over the border and over American cities." A more credible culprit for the "unnatural strength" of the latest fires is the green ideology that has displaced previous forest management policies that promoted clearing brush and thinning the density of trees. The green dream of saving trees from loggers has provided the fuel for bigger and more polluting fires.
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Didn’t Trump say Cuomo handled COVID the best of any hovernor?
yes, unfortunately
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