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this feels like the USSR breakup. EVERY STATE FOR THEMSELVES

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.

Time for the sane states to create a "Hub of Pathological Management and Deterence" as a replacement lol. Travelers from non-member states get quarrantined.

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mass layoffs and reorganizations that erased whole teams tackling clear health threats; without scientific backing, withdrawn Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people; gutted the agency’s vaccine advisory panel, firing respected experts and replacing them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.

I get that every member of this admin has the intention of destroying America, but what do they think happens when they succeed. They think they gunna be the madmax style warlords? Like once their accumulated wealth is worthless do they think they are ruthless enough to take that mantle? I look forward to some pretty wild news of their demise.

America winning all the diseases because MAGA

Why would you need to do science when all of the answers are on instagram already

Next pandemic is gonna be a lot of fun to watch from the other side of the planet 🤦

Oh how I wish we didn't share a geographic border with this fuck-up of a nation (with its ability to spread diseases directly to us).

... and how I also wish we didn't have a significant cell of idiots within our borders who seem to believe the same insanity.

EU, please take under your wing. Whatever faults may be there surely it must be better than this.

I'm just over here glad that I never stopped masking, distancing, washing my hands, or carrying my sanitizer around.

Bummer that not everyone is able to do that.

Of course, brain worms demand it

I'm sure Ebola can be monetized somehow