(LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, the controversial Biden-era Director of the National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), is the latest holdover to resign from the federal government in protest of the policies of U.S. Secretary for Health & Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In a long resignation letter posted to X (and signed with “he/his/him” pronouns), Daskalakis declared that “the views [Kennedy] and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people.”
“The recent change in the adult and children’s immunization schedule threaten the lives of the youngest Americans and pregnant people,” he claimed, using pro-transgender terminology and referring to the CDC no longer recommending the dangerous COVID shots for children and pregnant women.
“For decades, I have been a trusted voice for the [so-called] LGBTQ community when it comes to critical health topics,” the official added. “I must also cite the recklessness of the administration in their efforts to erase [so-called] transgender populations, cease critical domestic and international HIV programming, and terminate key research to support equity as part of my decision.”
Few but committed liberals are likely to lament the departure of Daskalakis in particular. As previously covered by LifeSiteNews, he drew attention during the Biden years for various photos (including a magazine cover) wearing an obscene leather outfit with a pentagram (a symbol associated with satanism), a hat with a pentagram, and standing above a floor with a pentagram on it. Plus, the HIV/AIDS publication whose cover he graced, touted him as “The Good Doctor: the CDC’s unconventional new HIV czar.”
“One of the guys that is the biggest proponent of doing all this is the guy who describes the risky behavior that he and his lifestyle involve. He describes that as that may be risky behavior to you, that just brings us joy,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) responded. “A guy that is so far … out of the mainstream, I think most people in America would discount his opinion because of the things he said in the past. He does not represent the mainstream of anything in America,” Paul continued.
“He should have never had a position in government,” Paul added. “And he brags about his lifestyle, you know, this whole idea of bondage and, you know, multiple partners and all that stuff. He brags about that stuff, but he’s got no business being in government. It’s good riddance.”
Since the COVID lockdowns, the past four years have seen plummeting trust in the medical establishment and a renewed critical look by many at conventional vaccines and the laws governing them, provoked by the federal government’s lack of transparency regarding the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 shots that were developed and reviewed in a fraction of the time vaccines usually take under the first Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed initiative, as well as attempts to mandate the shots. Many are currently waiting to see whether the Trump administration will fully repudiate Warp Speed and its resulting jabs.