Sadly, when I read the announcement, I did not see any admissions of guilt or error. Just underwhelming performance. Here is how my conspiratorial brain interpreted Walenky's announcement:
"We have been planning for many years to take control of America's health and healthcare system. We were finally presented with the perfect opportunity, including full backing of the Federal government, and we failed to execute. Klaus and our other overlords are not happy."
"While we did manage to intimidate most of the healthcare community, we failed to silence all dissenters. We had not anticipated that a few individuals would be willing to risk their careers over something as obtuse as the truth. Social media platforms stepped in to silence the dissenters for most of the population. Fact checkers assisted influencers with herding the general population toward out preferred talking points. However, the internet has not yet been fully tamed and some voices still found a platform to contradict our messaging."
"In the end, we failed to reach the 95 percentile goal that we were tasked with for vaccination. For that reason, drastic changes must be made now. The government is planning to release a new virus. It is not Monkeypox, which is only designed to maintain emergency powers at the local level for the largest cities on the coasts. The next viral outbreak will be deadlier. This is necessary as the population has now been desensitized to fear. We already have the vaccine ready and it will be disseminated to staff prior to the outbreak. However, our execution must be FLAWLESS or there will be severe consequences."
"To that end, we will take the lessons learned from COVID and apply a new strategy as outlined below."
"First, vaccines. There has been much resistance due to VARES data. Going forward, all VARES submissions will be scrubbed PRIOR TO PUBLISHING. Nothing goes into the official database without the review of a new incident review team."
"Second, social media. Hospital staff posting choreographed dance routines while hospitals are supposedly overwhelmed with sick patients will not be tolerated. We will work closely with the Chinese government to filter Tik Tok. In return, US-based social media platforms have agreed to limit videos and images posted from China."
"Third, health restrictions. We will enact limits on movement and employment much sooner and at all levels of the public and private sectors. Many individuals finally caved to pressure to take the vaccine once their employment was threatened. We will implement it much sooner"
"Fourth, peer pressure. We are looking at ways to continue to restrict the movement of the compliant population as long as there are still pockets of resistance. Establishing a clear link between the behavior of a small group of people on the continued restrictions for the majority of the population, will exert additional community pressure. Eventually, they compliant population will demand corrective measures for the dissenters."
"Fifth, corrective measures. When peer pressure finally fails to move the remaining holdouts to accept the new health measures, we will provide isolation and segregation protocols that will protect the compliant while restricting the holdouts. We will not use the word 'camp'. The messaging will be 'health and safety center'. The goal will be education and positive health outcomes. We will be requesting the assistance of the W.H.O. to run these facilities as there are numerous laws that prevent Federal and local governments from confining citizens without due process."
"I need each of you to focus on the goal and recognize the importance of success. Not only our careers but our very lives are at stake. Failure is not an option."
That's what I saw, anyway.