California, Oregon, and Washington just launched a “West Coast Health Alliance” — basically a liberal state mini-CDC that will issue its own health recommendations outside the federal system. They claim it’s about “upholding scientific integrity” because the CDC has “lost credibility” under Trump. But let’s not forget: these are the same states that enforced some of the harshest COVID policies in the nation — years of school closures, job-killing mandates and even playgrounds wrapped in yellow tape. None of it was ever backed by real science. Even Dr. Fauci admitted the six-foot rule “just appeared,” and current FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has said infection-acquired immunity was always real but ignored to promote vaccines. Now those same governors want to be the new guardians of “science”? What they’re really building is another bureaucracy — one that could pressure insurers to cover unproven drugs and vaccines. On paper, insurers don’t have to follow them. But with tens of millions of residents, these states represent huge markets. If insurers bow to political pressure, state-level science could become a de facto national standard — driving up premiums for everyone. Meanwhile, in Florida, Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo announced that he will end all vaccine mandates, not just for Covid, as well as run a state-level MAHA board to ensure that the CDC’s own recommendations are properly implemented there. Dr. Ladapo has been one of the few willing to speak honestly about the science from the very beginning. He opposed lockdowns and mask mandates, and he was among the first to warn about vaccine risks, particularly for young men. For that honesty, he was hounded out of UCLA in California — punished for actually trusting the science. And now here’s the contrast: West Coast governors are inventing new clown bureaucracies to rubber-stamp pharma, while Florida is demanding accountability and transparency from the very institutions that lost the public’s trust in the first place. And Gavin Newsom’s sudden concern about “political games” at the CDC? Spare us. He said nothing when the CDC censored speech, misrepresented trials, or when the FDA tried to bury data for 75 years. Bottom line: the same politicians who wrecked livelihoods during COVID now want even more control over your health. Why trust their “science” this time, when states like Florida are showing there was always another way? The post Newsom’s Health Alliance: More Politics, Less Science appeared first on Redacted.