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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 17 points 8 hours ago

Every virus and bacteria loved that

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

AKA Measels

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 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?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 41 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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 11 points 9 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.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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 9 points 8 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 63 points 23 hours 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 11 points 7 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 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes 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 7 hours ago

And they will still blame communism somehow

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 67 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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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] TimboSlice@discuss.online 71 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 40 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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[–] GEESELICHIC@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Historically fascists leave office when they die

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 65 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 2 points 5 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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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 37 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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