Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.
Only been let’s see here… ah 4 years since the last global pandemic. Yep, good time to gut the agency tasked with responding to pandemics 🫠
Fucking imbecile MAGA ghouls, all of this because of contention over well-established, well-researches, well-supported results from inoculation campaigns, and the ideology surrounding medical treatment for the trans community. A lot of people are going to get sick in the U.S. (I know, I know, they already are but Measles outbreaks are set to increase in scale and scope), and this is going to get really, really fucking bad. Expect for people that you know to start dying from diseases that were killing members of your grandparent’s generation. See image of U.S. states affected by Measles outbreaks in 2025:
Expect for people that you know to start dying from diseases
Eh, I’ve decided people need to learn the hard way. Meanwhile, I’ll be getting my government-sponsored shots & boosters for free here in the south. Good luck with everything, neighbors!
Except that vaccines partially work because of herd immunity. My kid is and was vaccinated against whooping cough, but enough fucktards here in Texas refuse vaccines that it is spreading and he caught it despite being vaccinated. He was ultimately fine because he was 14 with a good immune system, but pertussis can be fatal for some patients, especially those too young to get vaccinated.
You don’t sound like your smart enough to understand this explanation, but at least I tried.
I have a degree in pharmacology and biochemistry. Back off.
vaccines partially work because of herd immunity
Yeah? I bet you’re an expert.
your smart
The irony.
They shouldn’t have made a personal attack like that, but they’re not wrong. Herd immunity is needed. Individual vaccination, while helpful, isn’t fool proof. Especially for highly infectious diseases like measles.
Our youngest had some form of measles before she could get the MMR vaccine. Wildest part was taking her to the hospital and no one knowing wtf to do. The doctors all basically shrugged and said good luck. She seems fine now 3 years later, but her immune system seems wildly fucked up. Like totally fine to some sicknesses and horrible responses to others.
Edit: I mean this in a, “It’s Illegal to say what I want to do to you” way. If you don’t get the MMR vaccine when you could’ve, you are directly responsible for my child’s suffering. I want you to feel that suffering.
I don’t understand. It just does not make any sense, even for a far-right autocratic regime.
The only explanation is that whoever is pulling the strings behind all those clowns really just wants to destroy the whole government & administration. Using crackpot media pundits as useful idiots.
It’s called the Dark Enlightenment, they essentially want to accelerate civilization collapse so their utopian vision is realized. The financial backers behind Trump adopted this philosophy, and have articulated their plan: dismantle democracy, Balkanize America and establish a patchwork of technomonarchy city-states. People really need to be talking with their community about localization of production of basic necessities, otherwise it will be chaos, famine and death when the system fails.
Their utopian vision is really weird. I like having humans, they create cool stuff. My anime, tasty plebian food, and so much more are made by the hands and minds of ordinary people.
What is the point of being “rich”, if all the neat things are gone?
utopian
For them, sure. Feudalism is pretty utopian when you’re a king, not a peasant
Yeah, isn’t it funny how their utopia is everyone else’s dystopia? Ha! Hilarious! 😮💨
The independent Texas power grid suddenly makes sense…
Until it fails from yet another once-in-a-century ice storm this decade. But they’ll probably blame meteorologists for getting the once-in-a-century “wrong” rather than understand the effects of climate change.
Climate change and extreme wealth inequality are the primary drivers of civilization collapse. From that understanding, the actions of this administration makes perfect sense.
Why were you down voted?
You kinda make a good point.
They do, group number 1, billionaires who want their own neofuedal kingdoms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Group 2, Putin and Russia
Yes, Russia.
I’m sure it is something like ‘lets make it private and 1000x more expensive. Also, only my guy has the right company for the task.’
At this point, I’m convinced the motive for most of what the Trump regime does is gratuitous cruelty. Once you accept that explanation, all those motherfuckers do starts to make sense.
Remember when Ronald Reagan said this in 1981?
government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
American conservatives grabbed onto that line and have held it as gospel ever since. Kneecapping the government has been a major goal of theirs for over four decades now. You will sometimes hear people talk about “bleeding the beast”: taking all the government benefits they can get their hands on and then dodging taxes, with the assumption they are helping to slowly kill the system. Unfortunately, there is no plan (AFAIK) for what they want the world to look like after the collapse.
They won through lies and deception, now they need to comply unless they want to enrage their ever diminishing support base.
I have a friend working there. At least she was until 4 AM Saturday. But surprise, she’s working there again as of Sunday. Pure chaos!
Yeah. Because just not looking for new diseases erupting is such a great idea. I hope Europe and China are doing their due diligence, and hopefully we don’t have the next big disease kick off in the USA.
Oh it most certainly will. The worst pandemic is one full of ignorant people and leadership. They’re basically a powdered keg from a disease standpoint.
Next pandemic is gonna be lit.
As in, the cities will burn.
They already are.
DEC 10 2024 - Malibu
Malibu barbie was asked for comment.
Well, fire is a good method for eradicating certain pathogens. Just hopefully, the idiot king doesn’t start talking about getting fire inside people to fight the disease.
This looks like a silent invasion 70s script.
They Live
Friend of mine working on big shit there got furloughed then fully fired as of Friday from the CDC.
Apparently MAGA has innate super-immunity and doesn’t have any need for the CDC or vaccines.
Fascists believe that only the strongest should survive and everyone else must die. So if you get sick and die it proves you were inherently inferior and didn’t deserve to live. Eugenicism and the abuse of evolutionary theory are rife among the far right. And they all assume that they themselves are the Übermenschen whose genetic superiority will protect them from disease, so they have no need for government protection, unlike their inferiors. They’ll believe this right up until they’re in intensive care with bird flu, whereupon they’ll start panicking and changing their minds, just like Republicans did under COVID. But this message won’t get through to their peers because their peers too don’t care about it until they themselves are in trouble. Unless they’re wealthy, in which case they’ll buy themselves the care they’re denying to others, and consider this very fact proof that they are superior and deserve to live.
That’s right, they have those magic beds.
You ask why? I think the ideological side of Maga understands, on some basic level, the challenges of ecological overshoot. They heard about degrowth and are trying the psychopath version of getting populations down.
Short of an all out war, disease is the next best way to shave some numbers off our 8.2 billion. Remember the US CDC also studies every nightmare bacteria and virus, including gain of function. Now we have a bunch of unemployed and unemployable virologists whose degrees just became useless. I wonder if anyone might steal from their employer and have a 12 Monkeys kind of time.
