What we have here is a DHS secretary who on her own admission can be incapacitated by an allergic reaction, which doesn't seem very "secure" to me.
Maybe we need someone else on the job.
And what we also have here is yet more drama from the actors at Fort Detrick. Somebody needs to clean that place up once and for all, or shut it down permanently.
Will that someone be RFK Jr.?
Kristi Noem discharged from hospital as ICE Barbie's sudden illness sparks conspiracy theories
... According to its website, the Integrated
Research Facility at Fort Detrick studies viruses 'causing
high-consequence disease' like like Ebola or COVID.
One
of its major focus areas is to 'mitigate major public heath events
related to emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases or biological
weapons attacks.'
But Kennedy's Department of Health and Human Services ordered an indefinite work stoppage at the facility in April.
'NIH has implemented a research pause—referred to as a safety
stand-down—at the Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick,' HHS
officials said at the time.
'This
decision follows identification and documentation of personnel issues
involving contract staff that compromised the facility’s safety culture,
prompting this research pause.'
They
added: 'During the stand-down, no research will be conducted, and access
will be limited to essential personnel only, to safeguard the facility
and its resources.'
Dr Connie
Schmaljohn, the lab's director, was also placed on administrative leave
after she allegedly failed to report the incident to other officials.
Speaking
anonymously, an HHS source revealed to Fox News that the shutdown came
after one of the researchers poked a hole in the other's protective
equipment during a vicious 'lovers' spat'. ...
