Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.
More and more does it look like we are going to need a huge general strike with everyone refusing to work for about 2 months. It may cause a lot of people to go homeless if anyone can enforce evictions and many may starve. But the immediate move for companies while the markets crash into the Trumppression would have to be for billionaires to try to forcibly move their companies over seas in attempts to save anything they have left.
The alternative is 100 years of massive viral/bacterial spreads that wipe us out in essential plagues while wealth disparity forces large swaths of the country into slavery.
I really hope it doesn’t come to either… but that’s what this administration is forcing the population into.
Edit: Note earlier this year this administration already made massive cuts to NOISH, some of which were reversed, which is the administration that under/in the CDC that pushes research to OSHA to help ensure the health and safety of workers.
Sure, here’s my name, address, phone number, and declaration of intent. Take me away, future govt. and their self-curated list of political roundups! I approve of the idea but not the means of confirmation. Tell us when and I’m game.
Please stop sharing this website. It’s a fucking op
I know back in the day when things were bad people organized and prevented evictions from being enforced. I’m not sure how hard that would be to do today, but it might be something we need to do and figure out again.
The shutdown doesn’t give them any extra power to fire people, in fact one could argue there’s less.
So they basically doing “let is is cut Medicaid for millions or we will fire these unrelated people”
Trying to turn it into the center for disease collaboration
Hmmm. This reads a lot like a solid candidate for the Darwin awards but at a national rather than an individual level. Gutting disease mgmt will inevitably lead to some nasties. While they run their course, those who thumb their noses at disease mgmt ( including vaccines) will not have a good time. With luck, the anti-knowledge gang might diminish in volume!
It would be terrible if RFK was to contract a fatal but previously easily managed virus .
The smart grift would be to make more offices and departments and administrations, and then start contracting that work out to private shell corporations. I’m not quite sure how this is supposed to work.
Trump is a puppet, Stephen Miller wants to be Stalin and make a white Christofascist ethnostate, and Peter Thiel wants to literally buy pieces of the country to start network states.
Anyone that is trying to grift is not in on it.
Grandfather Nurgle approves.
Then they retracted a bunch. Morons.
As many states as possible need to just start cutting off as much influence from the feds as possible. Preferably including arresting and/or disappearing fuckwads like Kennedy, they ain’t just dangerous they are an active threat to humanity, especially Kennedy.
A cursory search and I couldn’t find anything. I might have to go digging. But…
I’m sure during the COVID lockdown years, as I was reading more into pandemics, there was a scientific conclusion that we’d not yet seen a major worldwide pandemic event that started in the Americas.
syphilis?
What? Does Nurgle have a super PAC or something?
