The US CDC, one of the crown jewels of American science and democracy, world leader in it's field, savior to millions, ruined by a mobbed up failed casino owner and real estate developer from Queens
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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Ruined by Republican voters who would rather make sure the immigrants are punished than survive the next bird flu.
By racists who feel the need to push down their fellow man than save them.
I've already been assured by them that the bird flu doesn't exist.
I should note this is occurring in discussions about egg prices.
Can't have a crisis if we don't call it a crisis.
Special Health Exercise
Three days tops.
So are any CDC staff working on ways to get word out on threats outside of the officially-gagged channels?
I would rather they don't lose their jobs by doing so, but civil disobedience is absolutely called for here.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
I would presume they can use their personal accounts. Or set up an alternate org outside of US jurisdiction.
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Kansas currently has an outbreak of drug resistant TB.
There’s also the possibility of pulling coverage of PREP/doxy/other medications designed to prevent STIs from insurance coverage. This would devastate the gay community, which is why they would do it.
Times like this are why I'm glad I live in a blue state. Not that it will ship the problems, it even slow then down. The Orange Idiot is going after Chicago right now like he's got a vendetta, and diseases don't care about imaginary lines.
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Can someone explain the benefits that GOP are trying to achieve with this rule? Does the censoring somehow provide an advantage to their popularity?
Trumps first term was stymied by an extremely inconvenient global pandemic.
He doesn't want to be undermined by subject matter experts again
I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, "See? Government can't do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies." Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.
They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.
At one point Trump literally suggested reducing reported Covid cases by just not testing. They genuinely think the important thing is not to talk about it.
Its how conservatism works.
If it makes you feel uncomfortable, sweep it under the rug and ignore it. Nothing is allowed to be bad or need fixing, nothing is allowed to change or be different, thats all scary.
What troubles me the most is that sounds like a very deeply abused person. It's a kind of person that has problems introspecting and managing their emotions. Is that what we're really up against? Is it all just mental illness?
Yes.
The reason abusers and fascism and authoritarianism and evangelicals and the GOP all strongly overlap is because all those systems are centered around abuse and fear.
All those systems create the problem and then step in to be the hero that saves the day. They set a building on fire then rush in and save a few people to be a hero. And a LOT of people that aren't paying attention only see them as they emerge from the building helping people. They don't see that they started the fire in the first place, that multiple people died, that the building is now ruined. And that is now happening on a large scale on many levels to our country.
They're taking things out from Hungary's (and Russia's) playbook. Your voters cannot fault you for something they don't know about.
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Ignorance Is Strength!
In a country where being asleep is seen as better than being woke, you get what you deserve.
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This seems like a good thread to ask someone to find/make a RSS feed of WHO Disease Outbreak News. https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
For starters I'd recommend FreshRSS to selfhost your RSS feeds https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
And for the creation of one I'd recommend looking into RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file
RSS-Bridge lets you make RSS feeds for sites that don't have one.
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What historic disease do y'all plan on catching in the new post-medicine era? Consumption looking hot this time of year! 
My doctor's always bitching that I need to lose weight, so this could work. If not though I hear that antibiotic resistant flesh eating bacteria is a horrible way to die.
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Package may contain up to 52 bug parts and or swine flu.
Easy!
Don't know how much it's going to count for when the h5n1 pandemic hits, but it's probably going to be easier to get a flu vaccine now than any time moving forward, so probably wanna take care of that sooner than too late.
You probably already know this but for clarity it sounds like the flu shot won't protect you from h5n1
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