So are any CDC staff working on ways to get word out on threats outside of the officially-gagged channels?
I would rather they don’t lose their jobs by doing so, but civil disobedience is absolutely called for here.
(They're not allowed to legally anymore)
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Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
boogiebored@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I would presume they can use their personal accounts. Or set up an alternate org outside of US jurisdiction.
veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Well, it seems it’s already set up:
SushiRain@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The word of a pandemic would spread regardless of CDC. When Covid started there where rumors in Europe (Jan 2020) of people dropping dead on the streets in China. By February there where videos of tourists in China going around with masks because everybody else was. A word spreads faster than a virus.
normalexit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can’t have a crisis if we don’t call it a crisis.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Special Health Exercise
David_Eight@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Three days tops.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
well, I hope we don’t end up having a global lockdown again, but if we do, I’ll be sure to call it the America Pox or Trump Flu or something polemic
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
There won’t be lock downs in the US this time.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
States and cities still can. Buisnesses can decide to as well. Groups and individuals can also lock themselves down. Basically: communities.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Just corpses littering the street, and chats of “fake news”
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Pox Americana
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Please, 48% of voters didn’t agree with this at all.
Give credit where it’s due and feed his narcissism too: Trump Flu!
asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Ignorance Is Strength!
In a country where being asleep is seen as better than being woke, you get what you deserve.
Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
🎖
211@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
This seems like a good thread to ask someone to find/make a RSS feed of WHO Disease Outbreak News. www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
NudeNewt@lemm.ee 1 week ago
For starters I’d recommend FreshRSS to selfhost your RSS feeds github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
And for the creation of one I’d recommend looking into RSS-Bridge github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-fi…
RSS-Bridge lets you make RSS feeds for sites that don’t have one.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Woah hadn’t ever thought about selfhosting RSS, thanks
211@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Thank you! I’m content to use Nextcloud News for my feed aggregate, but that bridge seems super helpful for various purposes.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kansas currently has an outbreak of drug resistant TB.
There’s also the possibility of pulling coverage of PREP/doxy/other medications designed to prevent STIs from insurance coverage. This would devastate the gay community, which is why they would do it.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 week ago
Times like this are why I’m glad I live in a blue state. Not that it will ship the problems, it even slow then down. The Orange Idiot is going after Chicago right now like he’s got a vendetta, and diseases don’t care about imaginary lines.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’ve been watching this really interesting older docuseries about an illegal alien who was adopted by a Kansan farmer. It really highlights the lengths the rich will go to when they feel justified in their own actions. Makes me wonder if this new TB strain isn’t just the newest bio-weapon introduced by the state’s leading plutocrat.
nl4real@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What historic disease do y’all plan on catching in the new post-medicine era? Consumption looking hot this time of year! Trollface
Etterra@discuss.online 1 week ago
My doctor’s always bitching that I need to lose weight, so this could work. If not though I hear that antibiotic resistant flesh eating bacteria is a horrible way to die.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My doctor did too. Then I developed an eating disorder. Now they want me to gain weight. Make up your mind, doctors.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Can someone explain the benefits that GOP are trying to achieve with this rule? Does the censoring somehow provide an advantage to their popularity?
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Trumps first term was stymied by an extremely inconvenient global pandemic.
He doesn’t want to be undermined by subject matter experts again
Red_October@lemmy.world 1 week ago
At one point Trump literally suggested reducing reported Covid cases by just not testing. They genuinely think the important thing is not to talk about it.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 week ago
Its how conservatism works.
If it makes you feel uncomfortable, sweep it under the rug and ignore it. Nothing is allowed to be bad or need fixing, nothing is allowed to change or be different, thats all scary.
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, “See? Government can’t do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies.” Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.
They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They’re taking things out from Hungary’s (and Russia’s) playbook. Your voters cannot fault you for something they don’t know about.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Voters usually have a pretty good idea of whats happening but it’s part of a general malaise of misinformation.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Erm…no.
The order is only in effect until February 1.
I’d be curious about it if it was longer but a 1 week freeze is probably about reducing miscommunication during the gov transition.
Biden instituted a similar rule for 60 days:
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Is there a non profit that can take over? Or a state(s) agency that can help out?
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 week ago
This is true, but it’s worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.
With the government staying silent, it’s going to be more difficult to get a sense of what’s happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn’t necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yep it would have been best if federal government were to be the ones because they can work across arbitrary state lines for collab. But something is better than nothing.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 week ago
California would likely be all over it. As much as I don’t care for Newsom, he really doesn’t like Trump, so I call that a win.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Package may contain up to 52 bug parts and or swine flu.
Easy!
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
*American federal health agencies.
Cycle0861@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s like they think the entire world lives under their mandate
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Don’t know how much it’s going to count for when the h5n1 pandemic hits, but it’s probably going to be easier to get a flu vaccine now than any time moving forward, so probably wanna take care of that sooner than too late.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
You probably already know this but for clarity it sounds like the flu shot won’t protect you from h5n1
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Yup, that’s what was implied in the first part. Depending on the genetics of a pandemic h5n1 though, the possibility does exist that current vaccines might be better than nothing at least. Even a 1% difference is huge on population scales.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The order is only in effect until February 1. I’d be curious about it if it was longer but a 1 week freeze is probably about reducing miscommunication during the gov transition.
Literally, calm your tits
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Stopping new rules and stopping basic alerting are very different. I can see an administration wanting to review new rules. But stopping normal communication is extreme.
I’d appreciate if you could copy my response to all the places you posted your same comment. It’d save me a lot of effort.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s up to individuals talking and posting about who’s trustworthy.
Even before this, The People’s CDC was doing better work than the regular CDC on covid. This and other stuff like it is what will guide us.
Funding is still an issue, but trust is something we maintain ourselves by individuals paying attention and speaking honestly.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t understand this perspective. The CDC did what they could with the information they had at the time. Yes, the pandemic was bad, but it was a pandemic. No shit it was bad. Could you imagine how much worse it would have been without them? I don’t want to listen to some uneducated, non-accredited assholes on the internet telling me to eat horse dewormer, thanks.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To add to other responses… What did the people’s CDC do better than the CDC?
Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Trump 2 ≠ Covid 2
Because nobody get informed.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not necessarily, but if another public health crisis happens, the government has crippled our built in responses.
I doubt the current bird flu problem will jump to humans en masse but it’s a dangerous one out there right now.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We have no reason to believe that if there’s a crisis to deal with, that he’ll do so
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Smith was intelligent though
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Any advice on where the best place to get truthful information is in English that’s outside the US’s jurisdiction?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Trumpoxflu 25
aeharding@vger.social 1 week ago
Oh man I don’t remember the last time I watched the matrix. And now I know what I’m doing tonight.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Watching the cave rave over and over with no pants on
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hey, no kink shame in my game man
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 1 week ago
[deleted]Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 week ago
At this time there kinda is too much political bullshit to ignore.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 week ago
“If you can’t see it then it isn’t happening!”
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s the logic he applied to covid testing.
Asafum@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Wouldn’t want to have to go shutting any business down, people can fall profits must never fall
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