CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention descended into turmoil this week after Health Secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ousted the agency's director, Susan Monarez, who had just weeks ago been confirmed by the Senate and earned Kennedy's praise for her "unimpeachable scientific credentials."
It appears those scientific chops are what led to her swift downfall. Since the Department of Health and Human Services announced on X late Wednesday that "Susan Monarez is no longer director" of the CDC, media reports have revealed that her forced removal was over her refusal to bend to Kennedy's anti-vaccine, anti-science agenda...
It's time to start forming a parallel system of governence.
Like-minded coalitions of states should band together and start doing for themselves what the feds no longer will. Form the New England Center for Disease Control. The California and Pacific Northwest Vaccine Advisory Commission. The Mid-Atlantic Department of Education.
Don't call it secession per se. Just groups of concerned state governments doing what needs to be done to protect their citizens' best interests.
Saw a story in this direction just last week (maybe that’s what you’re referring to but it sounded like a hypothetical)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250828210802/https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/22/metro/vaccine-public-health-massachusetts-pennsylvania-rhode-island-vermont-connecticut-maine-kennedy-trump/
Honestly, I've thought of this, and we really should. Just basically start an entirely new shadow government and get our allies to begin to work with the shadow government and cut off the current regime.
If you do this they’ll just kill you. I’m not being dramatic.
It’s time to fucking riot.
The problem quickly becomes the state's monopoly on violence, which is the core defining feature of a nation.
People can band together and form their own voluntary systems of governance, but the moment they need to enforce anything, which is inevitable even to settle good faith disagreements, it will break down.
The inevitable result of a parallel system of governance is civil war.