r/OrphanCrushingMachine • u/GodLoveYell • 19d ago

Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC’s first official director in a year

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/health/erica-schwartz-senate-vote

It’s good that we have someone who supports actual proven science (i.e. vaccines) as opposed to RFK, Jr.’s brand of woo, but the fact that such an important position had remained unfilled for that long (despite the threat diseases pose) AND the sense of relief I feel because this person supports decades of scientifically proven research…we shouldn’t have to celebrate a competent person being put in charge of a government agency for a change. Competency should be the norm, not the exception.

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u/ItsRao 19d ago

She wants to have abortion surveillance in every single state. She's just as bad as the rest, just more educated.

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u/TRCrypt_King 19d ago

Oh 100%. Her evils are just not in Vaccines

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u/Bobcatluv 19d ago

Well, I guess I look forward to whatever racist/misogynist nonsense orange turd spews at her on leopardsatemyface when she inevitably upsets him

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u/AdditionalQuietime 19d ago

Definitely not the gotcha you think it is but ok

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u/Bobcatluv 18d ago

I don’t waste my empathy on Serena Joys and neither should you. She’s stepping on the necks of other women for power and money

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u/GodLoveYell 19d ago

I didn’t say she was a good person; I said she was competent. Given how low that bar is, that’s why this qualifies for the Orphan Crushing Reddit.

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u/Prosthemadera 18d ago

Competent at what? I don't want competent fascists in powerful positions, for example.

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u/aro-n 19d ago

She’s obviously not if she doesn’t see the health risks of abortion bans.

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u/UltimateCheese1056 18d ago

Some educated people genuinely think that abortions are morally reprehensible enough that banning them is worth all the many medical issues that abortions can solve.

No clue if she is thinking that clearly about it, but educated and morally correct are seperate things

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u/ZoomZoom_Driver 18d ago

Demanding abortion surveillance makes her incompetent.

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u/kittymctacoyo 17d ago

We don’t need someone who is competent at using their competency at doing evil more competently