The Plague’s the Thing….

Rochelle Wallensky is the head of CDC. She seems to be having some issues with several things, including the rise in infection rates and death rates, despite vaccinations.  Furthermore, she has signed an order to stop evicting people who cannot pay their rent (moratorium on evictions).

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0329-Eviction-Moratorium.html

Here’s a link to the pdf text:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/pdf/CDC-Eviction-Moratorium-03292021.pdf

Here is part of the text:

STATEMENT OF INTENT This Order shall be interpreted and implemented in a manner as to achieve the following objectives:

• Mitigating the spread of COVID-19 within crowded, congregate or shared living settings, or through unsheltered homelessness;
• Mitigating the further spread of COVID-19 from one state or territory into any other stateor territory;
• Mitigating the further spread of COVID-19 by temporarily suspending the eviction of covered persons from residential property for nonpayment of rent; and
• Supporting response efforts to COVID-19 at the federal, s tate, local, territorial, and tribal levels

— End of quote

In addition, while there is a slight rise in infection rates (nothing that I’ve seen on the morning news indicates a real threat or an insurgence event), it is to be expected when people start gathering in herds – er, sorry, groups again after being cooped up as long as we have.

However, according to this article from CNBC, there is a steady rise in infection rates.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-chief-warns-us-headed-for-impending-doom-as-covid-cases-rise-again-right-now-im-scared-.html

According to Ms. Wallensky, this is impending doom, an overly emotional response to what is a normal event during a pandemic. And right now, she is “scared”. Well, to me, it means that she is and has been completely unprepared to deal with a real-world, real-time disaster of epic proportions, something similar to the plagues that swept through Europe in the Middle Ages.

If we look back into history, the Black Death (bubonic plague) went through western Europe like a firestorm three times. The source was, frankly, very easy to spot: rats infested with fleas that carried the bubonic plague (Ursiia pestis) organism moved from Med-based ships coming into home port to the shores as soon as it was feasible for the rats to do so. Why did the rats survive when humans did not? Simply put, if they were not immune to bubonic plague (and there were either of those plagues, too), they’d have been dead months earlier. They were resistant to it: that is all. Any rats that were not resistant were already dead.

So, Ms. Wallensky is letting us know that she is scared to death, an unfortunate choice of words on here part, but here it is:  https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/cdc-chief-warns-us-headed-for-impending-doom-as-covid-cases-rise-again-right-now-im-scared-.html

To quote her:  Coronavirus hospitalizations are also climbing. The U.S. is reporting a seven-day average of 4,816 Covid-19 hospital admissions as of Friday, a 4.2% increase compared with the week prior, according to CDC data.

Walensky urged Americans to “just hold on a little longer” and to get vaccinated against the virus once it’s their turn. When cases rise as they have over the last week or so, Walensky said, they often “surge and surge big” shortly thereafter.

“I’m speaking today not necessarily as your CDC director and not only as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer,” Walensky said. – article

I do not understand why a resurgence was not expected by her. She really should know better. In her position as the head of CDC, getting flustered over what is, in effect, a normal event is not appropriate.

Hat tip to AW1Ed for alerting me to this, too.

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