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What really injected politics into Covid response was the change at the World Health Organization (WHO). The director of WHO during the Covid era was Tedros of Ethiopea, the first non-physician to head the WHO ever. Throughout its previous history, all directors had been physicians but Tedros was a politician and bureaucrat. He liked to call himself "Dr. Tedros" but that degree was an academic PhD (public administration or political science or the like) not a medical MD. Politicking by Communist China won the position for Tedros over a much better qualified British physician.

When it was led by professional medical people, WHO had devised a pandemic emergency plan that relied on herd immunity, but after Communist China adopted the lockdown strategy, their WHO apparatchik Tedros followed suit and junked the well prepared herd immunity strategy. That was all about politics, not about science or medicine. The few places that stuck to the original WHO plan of herd immunity, like Sweden, did much better on battling Covid than those who followed the new WHO Chinese lockdown plan.

The first western country to fall for the lockdown plan was the UK, and that was all politics, too. The best epidemiology and viroloty minds in the country from Oxford and Cambridge proposed a herd immunity plan and that is the way the government was headed until a lesser light from Imperial College London used a PR campaign with blatant scare tactics delivered through the media to stampede the government to move to a lockdown strategy instead.

Fauci just followed in their footsteps.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 5:56 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Are you talking to me Big Bob, because I did not call the "voters" dumb? I did, however, say, "the Non Patriot Left used Covid to elect the stupidest, most incompetent, the most corrupt president in United States history, including the most incompetent cabinet, and the most corrupt bureaucratic agencies - DO(in)J and FBI in the history of our Republic."

By the US of A being a Representative Republic: Are implying that because "the Non Patriot Left used Covid to elect the stupidest, most incompetent, the most corrupt president in United States history," that these voters are of similar character as well?

Wait just a minute Big Bob: Did you not also imply you were done with this thread?

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You mean the American people. Last time I checked, the American people vote in our elections. Never a good idea for a politician to call the voters dumb.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 2:44 pm By: Big Bob

Fauci is the one who injected politics into medicine on Covid, and yes that was dangerous. Also, the China-controlled WHO. Sweden, which did not inject lockdown politics from China into its Covid response got the best results. I don't know about other big medical organizations, but Vidant doctors locally did not deviate from the party line. Other doctors, not connected with Vidant offered options Vidant doctors did not.

There are lots of research surveys coming out now that show that politically correct Covid care was NOT the best Covid care. The left wants to bury its head in the sand and call them "conspiracy theories".

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 1:11 pm By: Conservative Voter

My last post on this thread. Injecting politics into your medical care is dumb and can hurt you. Conspiracy theories' aside, take care of your self.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 10:41 am By: Big Bob

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Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 11:14 am By: JETHRO PAUL RAYMER

In this past legislative session, when Rep. Kidwell introduced legislation to be sure our school board had authority if they should choose to adopt a curriculum that the far left opposed, he was told by legislative lawyers that it was not necessary and that the North Carolina law cited in this article already gave them authority to do that. The education bureaucracy both in Raleigh and locally wanats everybody to think they have a veto but under the law they do not. We need more school board members who are willing to exercise the authority that the law gives them on curriculum.

Several states, notably Florida and to a lesser degree Texas are pushing back against these domineering textbook companies. If it has any of the alphabet soup of woke - CRT, DEI, ESG, SEL, etc. - Florida will not approve it.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: Steven P. Rader

Remove him NOW !

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 9:19 am By: Jim

Lady Justice should be blind. But not the FBI.
They seem to be turning a blind eye to most of the politicians in Washington.
We need to dissolve a number of bureaucrat organizations in Washington.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 9:07 am By: Buzz Cayton

Thanks CT: I do not read the Washington Daily News since there is so little news in it.

Her ad may play well with the local Leftists that tend to live in this end of the county, in certain sections of this town.

On the stewardship of the planet conundrum, the Green Energy movement has really made a mess of things, and I do not see them recovering.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 8:06 am By: Stan Deatherage

Gary, there is some point at which you can file a lawsuit to get that information. That lawsuit needs to be filed. This stonewalling by government officials is unconscionable. They are wasting our tax money and should not be allowed to cover that up.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 7:44 am By: Concerned Taxpayer

CT: How did you get that information, and why was it not reported here already - the largest online publication in Beaufort County's history?

Wise and productive recycling is smart and very important in proper stewardship of our planet, and disposing of sold waste, which is a local issue, primarily for the county commissioners.

Anything regarding "Green Energy" is way too complicated, and a red herring for most local politicians. For most local politicians, the issue is completely an unnecessary concern, outside of what the county commissioners may need to deal with as the county's primary government.

Personally as a county commissioner, I am turned off by every element of the Green Movement. I am at my core a conservationist, but no massive initiative should ever be initiated ad run by reasonably unintelligent people.

It has become the Public's running joke, and the Public's responsibility to rein in before it further damages our Republic.

Commented: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 7:13 am By: Stan Deatherage