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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36033796

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not just in the United States. The Lancet estimates just cancelling USAID will kill 14 million people between now and 2030. 14 million avoidable deaths because the world's richest man thought feeding the poor was a waste.

RFK is on track to do a lot of damage, but he has some stiff competition.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

RFK is on track to do a lot of damage, but he has some stiff competition.

Yes but RFK genuinely terrifies me more than the competition, he is a super-critical confluence of stupidity, confidence and undisguised fascism.

I am ADHD, RFK is intent on killing people like me off through his policy, that isn't an exaggeration and he is likely to succeed by the look of things. The centrist position in the US is that people like me have had it coming, sooooo...

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago

And they will still blame communism somehow