My definition of evil is “preferring the worse to the better”, especially doing so because it is worse. The connection to leftism is partly via their dogma of equality, which leads them to claim that if the worse isn’t doing as well as the better, it must be due to bigotry, so the worse, they say, should be preferred to the better to equalize outcomes. I say that any system of ethics that says to not prefer the better to the worse is unworthy of the name.
With regard to the CDC particularly, in 2017-19 I drove dozens of CDC people for Uber. I’m relaxed about bio labs - my dad is a pathologist, with a decades-long solo clinical, anatomic and forensic practice; I lived near Ft. Detrick for years (the biowar lab that closed in 2019), I’ve done some bacteriology work myself. Most of the CDC people were lovely, especially the field researchers.
But there were a few that gave me the absolute heebie-jeebies - just off the charts bad vibes with nothing I could put my finger on as to why, other than the “duper’s delight” smirk. Evil, in a word. Driving, I had only intermittent glances in the mirror to go on, but my subconscious put its foot down and forced me to stop driving around November 2019. Several other pieces of information contributed - the closure of Ft. Detrick, the lung disease supposedly caused by vaping, but most of all, the unprecedented secret meetings at the CDC, with even top assistants barred, that I learned about from a passenger.