Trump's Quack Nominee For CDC Is Not Some Harmless Old Coot
Anti-vaccine activists celebrated when El Cheato nominated David Weldon, a 71-year-old doctor from Florida who questions the safety of vaccines, to lead the CDC. AND he's a Christian Nationalist? What could go wrong, we're asking about every cabinet nominee.
The great Jonathan Larsen outlines Weldon's Christianism and concludes:
His voting record has a consistent theocratic bent... Weldon has voted to block judges from ruling on the insertion of “God” into the Pledge of Allegiance. He supports prayer and “God Bless America” displays in public schools and the use of taxpayer money to fund religious schools.
How Weldon’s religious views — and his willingness to conceal them — might affect his leadership of the CDC hasn’t been publicly explored. In the week since Trump announced him, there’s been virtually no mention in mainstream news outlets of Weldon’s theocratic, extremist record.
This is Trump's response to the threats of bird flu and mpox, as well as resurgences of whooping cough, measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases. Oh well! Via the Guardian: