CDC Wants To Atone For Their Mistakes, So They're Going To 'Increase Diversity'

I'll hire more black people so white people will trust me.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/health/cdc-announces-sweeping-changes/index.html 

Big changes are coming to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary as the nation's lead public health agency.

CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with senior leadership at the agency this morning to lay out her plans for overhauling how the agency works. She plans to remake the culture to help the agency move faster when it responds to a public health crisis. She also wants to make it easier for other parts of the government to work with the CDC, and wants to simplify and streamline the website to get rid of overlapping and contradictory public health guidance.

Staff will be notified of the change by email. More than 12,000 people work at the agency, which is headquartered in Atlanta.

The changes will be aimed at improving the culture and restoring public trust after the agency's acknowledged missteps in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Walensky will bring in former HHS Deputy Secretary Mary Wakefield to the CDC to oversee the reorganization.

Key organizational changes announced today include:

• The Division Laboratory Sciences and the Office of Science will now report directly to the CDC director, a move aimed at improving accountability of the delivery of timely information

• A new office of intergovernmental affairs—a hub where states health departments and other federal agencies with interact with CDC

• A new executive council—reporting to the Director—will determine agency priorities, track progress, and align budget decisions, with a focus on public health impact

• A new equity office, which will increase diversity both in CDC's workforce and add that lens to its public health activities

Additional actions announced today include:

• The CDC is going to create a new online mechanism for the pre-publication delivery of science 

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that hiring more black people isn't going to restore trust in the CDC. But, who knows, maybe I'm just racist and when Americans see that a Jewish woman is hiring more black people to deliver "science" they will be like, "OK, cool. I trust the CDC now."

Typically in these types of situations -where people are held accountable for mistakes- it's a top down kinda thing. So changes would be made at the top. I'm just not quite sure how decreasing the number of white men who work for the CDC is going to change anything within the public's eye. Like, how would they even know?

The lack of trust is based on the information and the messenger, not on the demographics of interns and secretaries in Atlanta. 

I'd be willing to bet that the demographics of the CDC employees in Atlanta are at minimum representative of population demographics. 

Interestingly enough, the CDC's YouTube channel has an I am CDC tab, in which employees introduce themselves, and give a brief job description. Scroll down the list and count how many white men you see. Is their goal to have zero white men?

Here is the showcase video from the CDC's website.

What it seems like to me, is that Walensky is scapegoating white men for American's lack of trust in the CDC. In other words, she is blaming her mistakes on too many white men working for the CDC. So she is going to attempt to regain that trust by decreasing the percentage of white men employed at the CDC, and "add that to the public lens." 

Maybe it will work. Time will tell. But it's hard to think anyone with any common sense would ever trust an organization that lied so many times, even if you support anti-white racism. 

And they're still doing it with the new monkeypox thing. Putting political correctness ahead of the facts.

I'll tell you what won't happen though: you won't see any media pundits accusing Walensky of being anti-white for scapegoating white men for the lack of trust in the CDC. Why is that?