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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@lemmings.world 23 points 22 hours ago

Every virus and bacteria loved that

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 13 hours ago

Blue food dye and other fun things > science

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours 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.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 14 points 23 hours 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.

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 23 hours 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.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 70 points 1 day 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 16 points 21 hours 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 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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 21 hours ago

And they will still blame communism somehow

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 41 points 1 day 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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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (16 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.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 19 hours 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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[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 294 points 2 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.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 5 points 22 hours 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.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 228 points 2 days ago (19 children)

I believe that is the point of all of this

[–] Grimtuck@lemmy.world 165 points 2 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.

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[–] GEESELICHIC@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago

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

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

Historically fascists leave office when they die

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[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 day 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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[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 day 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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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 145 points 1 day 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 51 points 1 day 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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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 day 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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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

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