By Natalie Sandoval
Farewell, Dr. Monkeypox.
Demetre Daskalakis, former President Joe Biden’s Monkeypox response deputy coordinator, is out at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Daskalakis occupied various sexual-disease-related leadership roles during his five year tenure at the CDC.
Daskalakis says he was “escorted off lovingly” from the CDC’s campus by “folks who I work with very closely and I love” on Aug. 28 after resigning the previous evening. (RELATED: ‘Everything He Says Is False’: CDC Director Robert Redfield Allegedly Slams New Coronavirus Task Force Member Scott Atlas In Overheard Phone Call)
Joy, love, and hideous sexually transmitted diseases are the basic components of Daskalakis’ vocabulary.
Biden monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis says the Biden administration aims to “support peoples’ joy as opposed to calling them ‘risky’”:
“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.” pic.twitter.com/nKsRQNmOwY
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 18, 2023
“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival, or Friday night, for that matter,” he told MSNBC in 2023 in response to a recent Monkeypox outbreak. Daskalakis called to “get the word out in a way that supports people’s joy.”
Another interviewer praised Daskalakis’ frank approach to disease management.
“I really like the new CDC language on your website about monkeypox risk … You talk about sex toys. You talk about buttholes. You say the word ‘cum!’”
“Fetish gear! And leather and latex,” Daskalakis added. “It’s a priority for CDC and for the rest of this response that we provide as clear and culturally appropriate guidance as possible.”
Daskalakis explained his leadership philosophy in a 2020 interview.
“In the last five or six years, we shifted the entire dialogue around sexual health to making sure we support a pleasurable life, rather than create an impossible standard of abstinence.”
The CDC will have to survive without such insights.
“We weren’t able to sort of share our expertise up the chain,” Daskalakis complains to The New York Times (NYT) on an Aug. 29 episode of The Daily podcast.
The former Monkeypox czar credited new leadership at the CDC for his decision to resign.
“I believe that CDC science is going to be compromised by [the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)],” Daskalakis says, detailing changes since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. “I’m very worried that CDC data will either be presented in a light that’s inaccurate or will be manipulated in a way that doesn’t reflect reality, and that’s going to be what will lead to decision making.”
Meet Demetre Daskalakis.
Demetre was just appointed by Joe Biden to be the official White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator. Demetre proudly wears the official symbol of the Church of Satan: The Pentagram.
Joe Biden appointed a Satanist to the White House. pic.twitter.com/TiMPY29AtC— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 8, 2022
Just imagine the public fallout if the CDC were “caught using false data to recommend kids’ COVID vaccines.”
Daskalakis now warns the public to be skeptical of the federal government.
“You’re saying that the American people should now be wary of the advice they get from the agency that is tasked with keeping them safe?” Rachel Abrams, host of The Daily, clarifies.
“Yes,” Daskalakis says. He encourages the public to “really question what’s happening on the federal level because of undue influence and directives that are not transparent.”
Most of us managed to reach that conclusion prior to 2025. But it’s nice that Daskalakis is joining the club.
“If CDC employees want to defend the status quo and aren’t aligned with a reform, they should resign,” Calley Means, a special government employee for HHS, wrote on X.
Means offered a few examples of the CDC’s incredible failures. (RELATED: INGERSOLL: RFK Actually Did It! Let Me Be First To Say: Good Riddance!)
“Americans have lost faith in the CDC because the organization spent $900 million on an ad campaign saying the COVID vaccine prevented transmission. Americans have lost faith in the CDC because recent disclosures show the organization knowingly withheld information about myocarditis risk from the COVID vaccines.”
“President Trump and Secretary Kennedy aren’t responsible for our public health crisis. They are responsible for identifying it and channeling the overwhelming (and correct) cry from Americans for reform,” Means concludes.
Daskalakis resigning is a win-win. Americans suffer one less abuse of their tax dollars. Daskalakis has plenty of free time to enjoy his Friday nights.
