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.
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.
wheneverif this fascist agenda ends.That’s one of the few silver linings of fascism, it always ends. It’s inherently unstable.
Nuclear weapons have the same silver lining! What a coincidence!
It’s never had modern resources before
Neither did the people fighting fascism.
All things end.
Now the timeline and the explosiveness of its ending are to be determined.
We can rebuild it, we have the technology, >!we just don’t want to spend a lot of money!<
The last time they did this, we had an outbreak in Wuhan.
They can’t have those billionaire tax breaks by paying health care people.
Why would you need to do science when all of the answers are on instagram already
The USA is simultaneously broadcasting to militaries around the world that America is going to ignore the Geneva convention/greenlight warcrimes, and they’re dismantling the infrastructure that would’ve been used to defend themselves against biological weapons.
What does the Geneva convention say about war crimes committed against a nation that also commits war crimes?
Article 7, Section 2: “I’m rubber and you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you”.
This would be the perfect time to release a last of us fungus or zombie virus stockpiles
Or bovine ebola, to devastate the USA’s beef supply. I imagine that an America that suddenly has no burgers would sober up fairly quick. The massive super farms / agriculture concentration areas make it an easy target.
If Trump had done this the first time around before Covid hit, many more people, including his fat ass, would have died.
Now is the time to cordon off all of the US. Nobody in or out, you stay in there and rot and fester.
May I recommend that we, as a global community, not decide to allow rot to fester in a country with more nuclear warheads than any other on the planet and continually degrading safeguards for their inventory and security?
That rot can go metastatic very quickly.
May I rather also recommend that we don’t leave good folks rot in there?
They will be crushed, and can never help in the rebuilding of society
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Looks like it is happening already https://infosec.pub/post/36042267
“This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared.”
No, they should be mad. Mad as hell that this government is dismantling all the safe-guards that keep them safe.
This is a really good point.
Republicans sell to their base that they need to always be on edge, scared of a threat that doesnt really exist so they think they are good at defending themselves and their families from threats.
But this is inviting real ones. Legitimate threats and dangers to our lives that they will not be prepared to defend against the same way they can against a young person wearing clothes they think dont match their gender stereotype.They will view this as a positive that their protections are being taken away for them to have to protect themselves and it will kill people who thank the abusers for the privilege.
this feels like the USSR breakup. EVERY STATE FOR THEMSELVES
Yeah I’ve been thinking this for awhile. The US isn’t all that dissimilar to the Soviet Union was just before it collapsed. When people start thinking their ideology will magically solve a nation’s problems instead of having skilled people working on those problems, that’s not a country that can function for very long.
You never know, the US could turn things around. But right now it seems to be running on fumes. There’s still people working in government in agencies that were formed when the government was run by somewhat competent people, so they’re keeping the lights on. But if these ideological purges (not to mention general malaise) continue, there won’t be enough to keep the lights on.
When I suggested the US balkanize I was hoping it’d be the States idea, not that the Fed would just literally crumble in front of our eyes.
The fall of America was pretty much guaranteed because the south and Russia never stopped fighting.
The fall of america was guaranteed when they made the choice to remain an imperial state.
Like butter over too much bread, the US has spread itself so far, so thin, as to dilute its identity and contain too many, too different ideas.
The interconnectedness of the modern World was always going to result in the downfall of the US as a single entity. California is effected by Florida’s decisions because that’s how this country works. But now they can Fight online about it. Tensions rise. The powder keg will blow.
Edit: spllng
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.
Many, many people are going to die because of this.
I always thought 5% (1/20) of the USA population would not survive this administration.
But not from violence: instead they will die, without headlines, from lack of medicine for simple things like high blood pressure and diabetes; not screening cancers; complications from malnutrition; infectious diseases; and combinations of these.
Average life expectancy will plummet further compared to the rest of the modern educated world …
Not if we stop tracking it 🤠
Oh so it was a kickback for the insurance companies
And not just in the United States.
god works in mysterious ways
And they voted for it. America is very difficult to underestimate.
And you’ll be ok with it.
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.
They were right and wrong about small government
So small it can fit right in a Woman’s vagina and she doesn’t even know it is there.
Remember a couple of minutes ago when the world shut down because we were woefully unprepared for a pandemic?
This is a smart money saving measure, theres no way a pandemic can happen twice.
You kidding? The Trump regime was rooting for the virus initially because it was killing “liberals”. Then they realized it was killing more of their supporters.
Don’t be mistaken - this is meant to kill people. This is an attack on every man, woman, and child in the US.
To be brutally honest, I’m sure there is a lab somewhere cooking up a new virus that will be even harder to fight off.
Once the CDC guardrails are completely gone, said virus is ‘accidentally’ released, killing off countless people who are unable to defend against it.“We get rid of the sick, old, poor, infirm, or anyone else we don’t want hanging around, that means more money for us!”
Based on vibes.
I’m sure Ebola can be monetized somehow
