Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) is now responsible for delivering a scathing castigation regarding how more and more Americans are losing trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal health agencies. This GOP lawmakers also recently went on the offensive against Dr. Anthony Fauci and a number of different school unions during a recent appearance on Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle.”
“The American public is losing faith in our federal health agencies — and that’s a real shame,” Johnson said to guest host Brian Kilmeade on Friday night. “If there’s one part of the government, other than the Defense Department, you’d like to have faith in, it’d be the federal health agencies – and they’ve lost the trust of the American public.”
“Because they’re not making any sense,” Johnson continued. “They’re flip-flopping on issues, whether its masks, they’re not backing up their pronouncements with science.”
“I sent a letter to the CDC today,” Johnson explained. “They leaked this slide presentation to justify the new mask mandate. There’s no data backing up that slide deck.”
“So we’re asking for information, but I’m not holding my breath because I’ve sent numerous oversight letters to the federal health agencies and I really haven’t received squat from them,” he proclaimed. “So I’ve lost faith in health agencies.”
Ask any rational-thinking conservative American, and they will say that they really cannot blame the Senator for thinking this way.
Of course, this is when guest host Brian Kilmeade asked Johnson if he would be in favor of any type of vaccine mandate, and this is when the senator responded, “No. Not unless there’s some incredibly deadly disease. I mean much higher infection-fatality rates than we have with COVID.”
“We don’t know the final infection-fatality rate, but right now it’s looking like it’s not going to be much more than double a bad season of flu,” he said. “Now, I’m not downplaying this, we had 600,000 excess deaths over the last year.”
Johnson added, “A huge failure on the part of our health agencies — we didn’t explore and research early treatment with the cheap repurposed generic drugs.”
Johnson noted that there was a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published last week that was questioning why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was “denigrating” use of the drug Ivermectin, and the authors of the piece described it as a “promising COVID treatment as well as a prophylaxis”.
The FDA seems to be vehemently disagreeing with Johnson in this regard because they are yet to approve Ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 because they believe that it is “not an anti-viral (a drug for treating viruses).”
“Ivermectin is often used in the U.S. to treat or prevent parasites in animals,” the FDA noted. “The FDA has received multiple reports of patients who have required medical support and been hospitalized after self-medicating with ivermectin intended for horses.”
The FDA seems to be vehemently disagreeing with Johnson in this regard because they are yet to approve Ivermectin for use in preventing or treating COVID-19 because they believe that it is “censorship of information has caused people to lose faith in the media, in the social media, and federal health agencies. It’s really a terrible place for the country to be in.”
Johnson then proceeded to shift gears, noting that “all of the emails between the CDC and the teachers’ unions as they discussed how they approach the schools reopening.”
The Wisconsin Republican also said that he still wants more of the emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci, since the emails that they did receive were very badly redacted.
“They are hiding something,” Johnson said regarding these federal health officials. “Again, that just reduces my trust and faith in these agencies. They need to come clean. They need to be transparent. This is information the American public deserves to have.”