BY SIMONE J. SMITH
“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.” Senior Official with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
There is something happening in North America; you could say an awakening, but for those who are not spiritual, it could be called a shift in thought.
For the last two years, we have been told to “Trust our health officials,” and “Trust the science,” and for some people, these statements are no longer enough. In the middle of this public health crisis, it was found that half of Americans do not have high trust in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or other major public health organizations when it comes to recommendations they make to improve health.
In one poll, 32% said they think the information provided by their state health officials is unreliable, which is of course a problem if agencies expect a large share of people to change their health behaviours based on information provided by state health departments.
This shift is also being seen North of the border. There is a noticeable decline in how trusting Canadians are of their leaders and institutions as the pandemic drags on. A report from the Proof Strategies CanTrust Index (February, 2022) found that Canadians have become less trusting since the pandemic started around two years ago, especially when it comes to government and politicians.
Surveyors asked 1,536 Canadians about their trust in leaders, sources of information, and institutions, from January 4th, 2022, to January 16th, 2022. They found that the overall trust among Canadians is at 34% in 2022, down from 37% a year ago and 45% in 2018.
It make sense that the public is starting to doubt what they are being fed through mainstream media, but what is concerning is that the very same officials and institutions that have been involved in developing protocols are facing an exodus at alarming levels.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are complaining that they are plagued with low morale amongst their staff.
In an article written by: Marty Makary M.D., M.P.H., and Tracy Beth Høeg M.D., Ph.D., they revealed “At the NIH, doctors and scientists complain to us about low morale and lower staffing: The NIH’s Vaccine Research Center has had many of its senior scientists leave over the last year, including the director, deputy director and chief medical officer.”
Apparently, the CDC has experienced a similar exodus. “There has been a large amount of turnover, and morale is low,” stated one high-level official at the CDC. “Things have become so political, so what are we there for?”
Another CDC scientist told them, “I used to be proud to tell people I work at the CDC. Now I’m embarrassed. CDC failed to balance the risks of COVID with other risks that come from closing schools. Learning loss, mental health exacerbations were obvious early on and those worsened as the guidance insisted on keeping schools virtual. CDC guidance worsened racial equity for generations to come. It failed this generation of children.”
In September 2021, Marion Gruber, Director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review, and 32-year veteran of the agency announced that she would be leaving at the end of October 2021, and OVRR Deputy Director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, left in November.
Now the question we should all be asking ourselves is, why such a high turnover rate during such a critical time in our history? What is not being disclosed to the public? I would love to speak with anyone who has left these two agencies, because I have some questions. We as the public deserve to know what is being hidden from us. WE deserve answers.
