Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost wants to investigate the CDC. She’s beyond satire

With Sue Frost (R-Area 51), a certified Conspiracy Theorist Who Does Her Own Research, chairing the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, the county has a problem.

Frost is encased in Plexiglas on the board dais because unlike everyone else, she refuses to wear a mask — which, by the way, flouts county policy as established by her own health officer.

Frost’s coincidence-or-conspiracy mentality (cue music from The X-Files) has colored the political proceedings normally reserved for county jail discussions and potholes. For example, Frost has asserted (falsely) that COVID-19 vaccination efforts are against the “Nuremberg Code,” and has actively protested against them with other like-minded nutbags.

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Instead of acting as a shill for her district’s developers, she’s veered off into territory normally reserved for the Death Star, which apparently now is in her district as well. Nicely developed, by the way.

Her consistent display of science denial led former Board chair, Phil Serna, to introduce a resolution, which passed 4-1, to require the county to adhere to scientific facts.

“To discredit the substance of this resolution is to call into question the expert opinion of those we’ve been trusting for months,” said Supervisor Serna.

Aye.

Where did Frost go next?

Well, on Tuesday, she made a motion calling for the Sacramento County Grand Jury to investigate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because the CDC has “potentially conflated COVID-caused deaths” and “policy decisions by the CDC are influencing the data that are ultimately causing divisiveness among people.”

Frost said that “other countries are basically ending the COVID emergency with the use of Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and Ivermectin.”

Ask any horse.

Frost also said that anonymous “whistleblowers” at hospitals are telling her on the down-low that COVID admissions are fishy, but I listened to the recording of Frost’s words a couple of times and can’t really explain her explanation to you.

I’m sorry, but it should be noted that a person isn’t really a whistleblower until that person blows the whistle publicly. Maybe it’s a dog whistle to her like-minded constituents. Telling Frost anonymously doesn’t count.

Frost said all this and more in public. For reals. Then, when she “encouraged” her four board colleagues to support her motion to have the county grand jury investigate the CDC, a silence fell over the board chambers, like Giants fans watching Game 5.

“I hear no response from anyone,” Frost said in a space alien monotone. Bueller? Anyone?

With that, County Supervisor Don Nottoli changed the subject, the way you would when your crazy uncle takes over Thanksgiving after a few Jim Boomers.

For my part, I had the whole back end of this column written as a make-believe satire of Frost and her COVID conspiracy theories. I had some comical (and purely fictitious) lines made up to have some fun with a situation that is really not funny: The chair of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors is, well, beyond satire.

What I’ve learned — what we’ve learned — is that Supervisor Frost is satire unto herself. There is no point in making up funny lines about her that will only be eclipsed by what she really says.

“I want to make a point,” Frost said on Tuesday. “Over 95% of people survive COVID. In the case of youth, it’s over 99.97. There are more people that die from car accidents than COVID.”

Vaccines are like seatbelts. They really work only if you wear them.

Then she said: “The CDC are causing us to make political decisions based on information that we don’t know is correct, and I’m concerned about it. I’ve grappled over this. It’s not always easy to know when to speak out.”

Uh, yeah. So I’ll speak out, too. But not satirically.

But wait! There’s more! Frost said that she was “inspired the truth will set us free ... I want to ask this board if we can consider an investigation of the CDC by the grand jury. To look into the science. Explore all sides of it. Not just the information from the CDC but information from scientists and pathologists all over the world.”

After her motion caused building-wide incredulity, Frost wrapped up by saying: “OK, well, along the way, I’ve asked for questions and verification of the science. I’m still questioning the data, and I look forward to a time when we can get back to normal.”

I look forward to a time when we have a normal county board chair again.

Frost’s premeditated assault on health and reason might be worthy of investigation, not the CDC.

Perhaps the grand jury might want to mosey on over and indict her for killing satire, too.