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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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[–] frenchfryenjoyer 23 points 2 days ago

Every virus and bacteria loved that

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I did not know the structure of measles until you made me look it up.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They have since admitted it was a mistake and then rehired all the white ones.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hate that I can't tell if this is satire.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

It's 30% satire. Some of the white ones were terrible Lefties that have been to a college and so they didn't re-hire ALL of them.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

it must be because in the case of RFK Jr he wouldn't really care about race; he'd just want anyone with proper medical education gone so he wouldn't have to hear the phrase "that's the biggest crock of shit I've heard" every day.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 71 points 2 days ago (1 children)

RFK is on track to have one of the highest kill counts for a powerful US figure in the first quarter of the 21st century. That is an intimidating sentence and yet it seems to be undeniably true, I don't see how we can swerve from the path of mass amounts of unnecessary death in the US from disease. Shame on us.

[–] 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...

And they will still blame communism somehow

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 297 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Even if the US somehow manages to have another election and elect a sane president, it will be an almost impossible task to undo all the damage the Trump regime did.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 232 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I believe that is the point of all of this

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 169 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They literally laid it all out in Project 2025. There are some nuances to how it's unfolding but this is what they wanted.

Exactly. I don't know why anybody is surprised about this shit. They literally wrote down what they'd do once they came back into power. Project 2025 is their Mein Kampf.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

Yeah I think this is the headline that finally did it for me. Hurting Democrats isn't enough, hurting minorities isn't enough. They want the country to no longer exist. They want a smouldering pile of rubble left, literally preferably, but they'll accept metaphorical if that's all they can get. The point of this administration is to destroy America and kill as many citizens in the process as humanly possible.

No matter how bad it's seemed I swear fucking God the next day it's proven worse than that. At no point was it possible to accurately assess how royally fucked we are or how evil these Nazis are. And you'll have Republicans defending all this shit even if they personally are being sent to the gulag. They'd say we're overreacting even as they themselves are having the executioner's hood forced over their heads. I don't understand how it would be possible to use the power of government in more evil ways.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 66 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's accelerationism. You burn it down so you can rebuild it how you want. Once all is rubble they'll say "You see? Democracy was just a pie in the sky experiment that was destined to fail. Now let's go back to monarchy."

Remember who burned it down, and never forget, No Fucking Kings. Not now, not ever.

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[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

That is precisely the reason for the existential dread this has brought to my life as I ponder what kind of world will be left to my kids when I die.

I can't even rest assured that people in power after Trump will not be Trumpists, and even if I could be assured of that, I'm not at all sure we're going to get all this shit fixed before whatever the next catastrophe is.

I expect to die of old age in a world where we have not yet returned to at least as good as where things were when Trump took over. (and there was already a lot of fucked up shit then.)

And as someone who has spent nearly six decades rooting for humanity in most ways, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that we dropped the ball this hard on this one.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Another reason not to visit the US. They can't prevent disease and aren't even trying. All they want is your money.

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[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 77 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My country is being destroyed right in front of me. What a time to be alive!

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I'm just sitting waiting for it to either kill me or fail trying. And all I can do in the meantime is try to live life pretending like it's not on a time limit

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 147 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Remember a couple of minutes ago when the world shut down because we were woefully unprepared for a pandemic?

This is a smart money saving measure, theres no way a pandemic can happen twice.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 52 points 2 days ago

You kidding? The Trump regime was rooting for the virus initially because it was killing "liberals". Then they realized it was killing more of their supporters.

Don't be mistaken - this is meant to kill people. This is an attack on every man, woman, and child in the US.

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 92 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared.”

No, they should be mad. Mad as hell that this government is dismantling all the safe-guards that keep them safe.

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[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everyday these fucking assholes. That's why I stopped speculating what else fucking damage they would do -- stop giving the bastards ideas.

They need to be stopped completely.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I’ve been saying this for many many years now. Republicans are simply too far right wing to engage in anything but total annihilation with. They’ve gotta go. I want to put them to work rebuilding society; they need to physically build public hospitals, colleges, parks, infrastructure, etc.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

9% of the remaining staff.
Another 4,000 government employees were fired across other vital programs.

We are still leas than a year into this 4 years presidency.

There isnt just gonna be a fixing this. The US is going to have to take decades to rebuild itself from scratch whenever this fascist agenda ends.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

~~whenever~~if this fascist agenda ends.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (11 children)

That's one of the few silver linings of fascism, it always ends. It's inherently unstable.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

4 years presidency.

So that's not inherently guaranteed. The constitution can be amended - hell, term limits themselves come from an amendment, not the original text. I believe there's at least one supreme court justice who doesn't even believe in amendments - if it wasn't in the original text of the constitution, it doesn't count.

Luckily POTUS himself can't legally suspend or delay elections. But I'm pretty sure a sympathetic congress can.

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[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The USA is simultaneously broadcasting to militaries around the world that America is going to ignore the Geneva convention/greenlight warcrimes, and they're dismantling the infrastructure that would've been used to defend themselves against biological weapons.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Many, many people are going to die because of this.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I always thought 5% (1/20) of the USA population would not survive this administration.

But not from violence: instead they will die, without headlines, from lack of medicine for simple things like high blood pressure and diabetes; not screening cancers; complications from malnutrition; infectious diseases; and combinations of these.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I remember the time when every weekend there was good news like NASA launching a new space station component on the space shuttle. They did have bad news like the shuttle blowing up and the NASDAQ dropping 10 points on the same day. But usually news had puppies being adopted and new vaccines or a new animal discovered.

Now its all about what I can't do anymore starting this week. Like bikes are not allowed anymore. Or you can't kiss in public or below the chin. Can't wear colored shirts or shorts but pants may still be blue. If you're lucky you could be illegal this week too!

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[–] GEESELICHIC@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile, the pedo in chief got his flu & COVID booster. These fucking people…

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Historically fascists leave office when they die

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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 125 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Well, that's one way to stochastically get rid of excess population now seen as surplus to requirements, I guess.

Any former employees of the CDC might be interested to know that the EU has been beefing up epidemic response and is hiring. Assuming you'll be allowed to leave the country, of course.

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[–] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (8 children)

this feels like the USSR breakup. EVERY STATE FOR THEMSELVES

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 38 points 2 days ago (38 children)

Other countries should just stop tourists from the USA from entering - the damn place is a biohazard at this point.

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[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Great, who is going to tell me that kids need to get infected with airborne AIDS in order to protect the rich now?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Blue food dye and other fun things > science

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago

From the article, a laundry list of 'achievements' since RFK Jr took office:

Kennedy’s tenure at HHS has been unprecedented and chaotic. In just eight months, the secretary has: pushed sweeping budget cuts and canceled billions in research and development; overseen mass layoffs and reorganizations that erased whole teams tackling clear health threats; without scientific backing, withdrawn Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people; gutted the agency’s vaccine advisory panel, firing respected experts and replacing them with ideological loyalists; installed a vocal Covid vaccine critic to chair a safety subcommittee; reopened the long-debunked vaccines-and-autism debate; hired a discredited anti-vaccine researcher who experimented on autistic children to trawl government data and relitigate settled science; pressed for access to private data to fuel the research; undermined his own epidemiologists during the Texas measles response; downplayed a shooting that left CDC staff shaken; announced sweeping policy changes on social media with no data to back them and accused the American Academy of Pediatrics of a “pay-to-play scheme” for daring to dissent. Most recently, he blew his self-imposed September deadline to figure out the cause of autism and, without compelling scientific evidence, blamed pregnant mothers’ use of Tylenol for the condition.

[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 days ago (2 children)

America winning all the diseases because MAGA

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