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Glenn Beck published his podcast interview with Governor DeSantis this weekend, and among other interesting things, the Governor explained the intense pressure that the federal government placed on governors in 2020, trying to convince them to lock America down for the Wuhan flu:

The White House task force was just hammering me for the first few months because they wanted me to be clamping down harder. So I asked Deborah [Birx]: when in American history has this ever been done, and what were the results? Because I kinda feel like, we’re flying blind here, and we may be doing things that might be damaging. And she said, it’s kind of our own science experiment that we’re doing in real time.’

Sounds about right. DeSantis then explained that it was the George Floyd riots that triggered his change in course to start ignoring the federal government and its goofy public health experts:

That didn’t sit well with me. I mean, you’re a citizen of a Republic. You’re not a guinea pig … You remember the George Floyd riots, the epidemiologists… because they were telling people, you have to stay in your homes! … They were so mad at Florida for allowing people on the beach and this kind of stuff. … Two thousand epidemiologists wrote a letter saying we do not condemn these protests because of covid, indeed we think they’re vital for public health because they’re fighting racism. That’s when I knew.

DeSantis explained his profound disdain for most public health officials, calling them sick ideologues:

This public health clan of people, they are sick. They are ideologically captured, and these are not people that should be anywhere near the levers of power. And so I, basically from that point on I would exclusively listen to a very handful of people. You know, Bhattacharya from Stanford, Martin Kulldorf from Harvard, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford, and my Surgeon General, Joe Ladapo who we brought in from UCLA.

He’s right, of course. DeSantis meant that most public health officials are mentally sick, which is true, but far too many public health officials are LITERALLY sick:

Not to mention the wonderful example of Claire Poche, senior health adviser for the Oregon Health Authority, who gave a televised covid death briefing while dressed as a clown:

There’s no way I could make up anything crazier than that perfect example of the state of public health science in this country. Her picture should be in the dictionary next to the entry for “public health.” The lame explanation was that Claire was just costumed for Halloween, just having a little fun, loosen up … but COME ON.

DeSantis was also right that these germaphobic nutjobs have no business being in charge of other people. They can barely manage themselves. One of the greatest mistakes of the pandemic was suddenly handing these grotesque public health numbskulls the ability to order other people around because “emergency.”

Seriously, though, this is an area where folks can make a big difference at the local level: these pandemic officials need to be strongly encouraged to find more productive employment in a different field where the amount of damage they can do is carefully limited. Maybe like studying fungi at the North Pole.