Trump Admin Fires CDC 'Disease Detectives' As Bird Flu Fears Rise: Sources
Trump Admin Fires CDC 'Disease Detectives' As Bird Flu Fears Rise: Sources
Nearly half of an elite US epidemiology program known as the "disease detectives" were dismissed by the Trump administration on Friday, according to sources familiar with the matter, dealing a blow to public health efforts as fears rise over bird flu.
Hmm in only there was a culture of getting organised as an union.
Maybe the people in the US will find some strength of conviction in this mess
Many positions in federal service are banned from joining unions—most of the higher scale / subject matter expert and “white color” roles.
These were doctors and epidemiologists, and were also in a special 2 year program, so they wouldn’t have had the standard protections of competitive service, and might also have been excluded from union membership.
Worth noting that aside from some lawsuit exposure, fed unions are not allowed, by law, to strike. (Reagan terminated thousands of air traffic controllers when they struck and replaced them with scab labor as an example) And the current admin doesn’t seem to scared of laws or lawsuits at the moment. (Hopefully they’re wrong in that confidence, but who knows)
I would join a union in a heartbeat, but my position is barred from it.
Worth noting that aside from some lawsuit exposure, fed unions are not allowed, by law, to strike. (Reagan terminated thousands of air traffic controllers when they struck and replaced them with scab labor as an example)
The shit we're going through to today is what happens when striking workers don't break the scabs' kneecaps, "legal" or not.
No, voters seem to approve of all this so far. Polls are positive. Swing voter focus groups like the gutting and are not concerned.
TBH the US government needed to be turned on its head, and that positive fantasy is being sold to the public as it’s reorganized to protect billionaires.
So… TBH, unless there’s some kind of social media revolution overnight, I would probably write us off :(
Swing voter focus groups like the gutting and are not concerned
they aren't swing voters anymore, they've been swindled and lied to and they ate it right up. might as well sign 'em up for a redcap of the month club membership.
Canada needs to close our border to the USA. At this point I'm all for the tarrifs if it means our country completly detaches itself from that sinking ship
You really should cut us off hard. Save yourselves, we'll take care of this problem internally, in the meanwhile, once enough people wake up.
If any of you (sane) states manage to break away from the union, we'll happily accept you into ours :)
Once enough people
wake updie. FTFY
Canada can't afford to, no? Too much usa food in their stores
So I knew about RFK's anti vaccine / raw milk stance, I didn't know this part though
Kennedy has also expressed skepticism about widely accepted infectious disease science, questioning whether germs cause disease and whether HIV causes AIDS.
If he has any doubts about HIV causing AIDS, he should test it on himself then. I mean if he says it doesn't do it, why not?
Scratch a denialist of one type, and you soon find they contain multitudes of denialist bullshit. That's been my experience, anyway.
Ask him about the Holocaust, evolution, and the moon landing, I say...seems he is already known as a vaccine denialist, an HIV denialist and a germ theory denialist.
Yeah he's also cast aspersions on the Polio vaccine. When that vaccine was first announced on the news, people on NY were out in the streets celebrating. Work basically stopped for the day. Practically everyone knew someone who had died of Polio.
It was one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the modern era. But RFK thinks he knows better.
I should probably bet some money on both RFK and Trump contracting bird flu this year.
Probably from some dead bald eagle that rfk found on his way to work.
That would be to nice for this timeline. More likely that half the country will get it in the next 5 years and tens of thousands of babies and pregnant women will die. That fits more with what the writers seem to like.
If you can cover it up with the Ministry of Truth, there is no problem, right?
Right?
Can't die of ebola if it wasn't tracked by the CDC. (Taps Forehead...)
"Cause of death? Natural causes, I guess. Sometimes healthy 27 year olds just die."
Because his solution for something getting reported on more and more is to write less reports
It's like when a video game has a character with a shitty pickrate cause their kit is no fun and they make an event and tie a bunch of content to them instead of making them fun. Later they're like look! You liked so and so all along! Oblivious to the fact they fudged their own damn numbers
Your analogy works. Very niche, but it works.
How is there still no travel ban into the EU for US citizens?
Finally, he's doing something to lower the price of eggs. The long national nightmare is over. Now we can just eat flu eggs for cheap. Problem solved, permanently for some people.
I really don't understand the billionaires. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, having an intact government is useful. People not going hungry or stressing the medical system, gives a regime credibility. Without that shield of satisfaction, the rulers of a government are doomed to die at the hands of their subjects.
What is there to gain from all of this?
Are there independent websites that doctors can log there data, ones not attached in anyway to the federal or state government?
You’re on one
Veterinary organisations would keep records and may add to them with trusted data sources, but they're likely primarily government funded.
The beginning of the US brain drain.
“Disease Detective, that’s a fake job, fire them!!”
Someone needs to make nurgle with tump hair. I'm convinced if there was zombie outbreak dude would say fake news.
Brand this: Trumpflu 2025
"Ain't no pandemic if ain't no doctors!"
Hahahhaha, w'ere all gonna die horribly
I’m sure it’ll be fine..or not.