'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
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.
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.
Considering the US is the highest polluter per capita in the world (by a country mile), this just sounds like a good thing. Now we just need nature to take its course.
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.
Well, that's one way to stochastically get rid of excess population now seen as surplus to requirements, I guess.
Any former employees of the CDC might be interested to know that the EU has been beefing up epidemic response and is hiring. Assuming you'll be allowed to leave the country, of course.
That msn link just takes me to the msn homepage.
Sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I thought I'd made a mistake with the direct link and just tried it myself, but it works as expected for me.
In any case, for the benefit of you and anybody else having similar issues: it's a link to an article about the recent issue of Rutgers professor Mark Bray apparently being prevented from leaving the US for Spain. You won't have trouble finding coverage of it elsewhere if you're unaware of it and wish to know more.
The link works fine for me. Might be some kind of geo-blocking issue.
Here's an Archive link to the article.
Just for added context, that Rutgers professor was stopped. Rebooked their flight for the next day and still safely left the country so yeah. Still 100% fuck this regime, but most of us can’t move, family, finances, job, or lack of skill to immigrate to another country. It sounds so easy, but to literally leave your entire fucking life behind and started all over again from zero in a foreign country with no friends no family, no community, and probably not even knowing the language of the country all that well that’s like a huge turtle and I think most people have no real choice in the matter but to just stick it out regardless of what happens.
“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.
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.
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.
My country is being destroyed right in front of me. What a time to be alive!
I'm just sitting waiting for it to either kill me or fail trying. And all I can do in the meantime is try to live life pretending like it's not on a time limit
Another reason not to visit the US. They can't prevent disease and aren't even trying. All they want is your money.
Are you kidding? I want your heathcare.
I really love all these accounts attempting to sow division and hate against the United States, when it's just one specific political group who everyone should be uniting against, FASCISM.
Meanwhile, go ahead and read that article about how the European Union has had 32,264 cases of the measles, and only 4 EU countries have the recommended two dose coverage for the vaccination, and then come back and talk to us about disease prevention.
Edit: hi Alaknard, you America-hatin' Lil busy bee
Yeah but the yanks voted FOR the convicted felon insurrectionist rapist. That deserves SOME ire from the Commonwealth.
you see, europe at least is keeping track ;)
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.
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.
And they will still blame communism somehow
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...
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".
They get recorded as being super polite citizenry.
Source: check out Canada's and Poland's public record.
It doesn't
This would be the perfect time to release a last of us fungus or zombie virus stockpiles
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.
We can rebuild it, we have the technology, >!we just don't want to spend a lot of money!<
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.
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.
America winning all the diseases because MAGA
Gotta catch 'em all!
Make America Gonorrhea Again
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.
Next pandemic is gonna be a lot of fun to watch from the other side of the planet 🤦
Sadly, a pandemic is a global occurrence. So it will be a little less fun to watch.
All countries must ban Americans or require them to isolate for a week (by spending their own money).
Meanwhile, the pedo in chief got his flu & COVID booster. These fucking people…
Historically fascists leave office when they die
I'm fine with that.
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!
As a kid I remember Tom Brokaw droning on about the collapsed soviet union and eventually Kuwait but all that bad news was offshore, domestic news was all about how great 3Q was going to be and how the malls and airports would be swamped for Christmas, great movies in theaters, optimism. I had no idea it was the last time I'd experience it.
Other countries should just stop tourists from the USA from entering - the damn place is a biohazard at this point.
You think that the people rooting for this are world travelers? What's really strange is I just did an Uber ride for a couple from the Netherlands that came to visit center of nowhere.
Between 1 February 2024 and 31 January 2025, a total of 32 265 people were diagnosed with measles in the European Union. During this period, Romania (27 568), Italy (1 097), Germany (637), Belgium (551) and Austria (542) reported the highest number of cases across the EU/EEA.
It's time we stopped these diseased EU tourists from traveling and spreading the measles to all other countries!! Just like Alaknar suggests!!
Because you were too ignorant to clock my original link or understand what I was saying, here it is again
Between 1 February 2024 and 31 January 2025, a total of 32 265 people were diagnosed with measles. During this period, Romania (27 568), Italy (1 097), Germany (637), Belgium (551) and Austria (542) reported the highest number of cases across the EU/EEA.
ITS TIME WE LOCK DOWN THE EU AND PREVENT YOU FILTHY SWINE FROM TRAVELING TO OTHER COUNTRIES!!
Except I'm not an asshole like you.
P.S. can I say how embarrassing those numbers must be for you? You were so proud of your 'spotless' EU measles record...
Oh my god, look at all the measles pouring out of European Union countries! 32,265! Alaknar, what is going on with you guys in the European Union don't you believe in vaccinations and herd immunity??!
The EU is a BIOHAZARD at this point!
ONLY 4 COUNTRIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION REPORT MEETING THE TWO DOSE VACCINATION COVERAGE FOR MEASLES.
Sounds like the damn place is a biohazard at this point, and we need to stop tourists from the EU from entering other countries like Alaknar advises.
That's mainly because until very recent craziness (mainly US imported) Measles was approaching eradication and the vaccination regime was lightened because of that. Now it will have to be upped again, which is already happening.
This whataboutism works as a gotcha in a random comment, but EU reality isn't that bleak yet
Remind me again, how many of those countries have removed their equivalents of the CDC?
Hey, you're a genius! Let's look at a list of all countries with measles outbreaks and restrict all their citizens from travel!
Oh no, there is sub-optimal measles vaccination coverage across the EU/EEA! Oh no, Yemen, India, Pakistan, the Russian Federation, Canada, Mexico!
I don't know what country you live in, Mr. Genius, but for your sake I hope it's North Korea so you can be isolated from the rest of civilization.
Mr Genius, North Korea and russia are already isolated....
And neither Yemen nor India, Pakistan or Mexico have effectively "free entry" to Europe.
As for the US - they have almost free entry AND they just killed the CDC. Which means we won't know how many cases they have and how bad the situation will be in a year or two.
They have since admitted it was a mistake and then rehired all the white ones.
I hate that I can't tell if this is satire.
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.
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.
Oh how I wish we didn't share a geographic border with this fuck-up of a nation (with its ability to spread diseases directly to us).
<cries in Canadian>
... and how I also wish we didn't have a significant cell of idiots within our borders who seem to believe the same insanity.
EU, please take under your wing. Whatever faults may be there surely it must be better than this.
Albertans would swim in shit streams and eat road kill if they could.
Even Albertans know they gotta build some pipelines because the US is going down the tubes. Still not with it enough to understand O&G is a dead end, but it's obvious to even them there's no future selling anything to the US.
No, I would not. Be careful with generalizations as they include all the people most negatively effected by the policies of the region. Criticizing "Alberta"? Completely fair. Criticizing all "Albertans", people who didn't choose to be born here, to have their families here? Very different, and a cohesion/division fallacy if you give it more than a passing thought.
Saying that every person here is evil or stupid because of the choices of a government, ignoring those who voted against the government and then rolling the moral standing of both groups in with each other is an awful thing to do.
They don't already?
Monkeys Paw curls: you’re now a resource rich nation with little man power or military strength isolated from Europe geographically and Russia is your neighbor. “EU please take us under your wing”Ukraine2022-2026 Lmfaoo.
You goofys are stuck with us on this ride to hell. Strap in and less removed and whining.
Fuck that, I'm already buying nothing from the US, and I'm not the only one. Every time I go to the grocery store there's fewer US products (because people aren't buying them) and more products from Canada and elsewhere. Sure there will be an economic impact on Canada if the US collapses, but we'll still have food and a functional country so we can adapt. We know the direction the US is going even if you don't and we aren't going to be pulled down into being a shithole country like the US is becoming.
Russia is on the ropes right now, and the US doesn't have a good track record with occupying countries and can't even keep it's government running right now LOL. Hegseth wants to turn the US military into being more like ICE and cowards like that would shit themselves before they even got close to actual combat.
Your country is falling apart, everyone in the world knows it and is already figuring out how things will work after the US collapses, because you're the only "goofys" that would go from being the richest country on the the planet to complete collapse because y'all got suckered by a shady real estate conman twice.
Of course, brain worms demand it
All hail to the worm!
Unleash COVID-25.
AKA Measels
I did not know the structure of measles until you made me look it up.
Every virus and bacteria loved that
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.
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.
Why would you need to do science when all of the answers are on instagram already
I'm sure Ebola can be monetized somehow
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.
I get that every member of this admin has the intention of destroying America, but what do they think happens when they succeed. They think they gunna be the madmax style warlords? Like once their accumulated wealth is worthless do they think they are ruthless enough to take that mantle? I look forward to some pretty wild news of their demise.
They'll enjoy the beautiful beaches in Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Curacao... please do not worry for them, they'll be alright, always.
That's the beauty of being a psychopath. /s
Very sadly I think the answer is essentially yes. They think their wealth is a sign of their inherent superiority over people that will be around after the government collapses. They think that they'll be able to just turn the lights off and turn on the fascist regime that has them at the seat of power because they don't understand or simply don't believe in the complex scaffolding that keeps our current society up.
Ironic that a government overthrow led by a shadow cabal of tech billionaires basically comes down to "they plan on turning it off and on again"
and every other toppled regime "did it wrong" and they totally won't make the same mistakes again.
258,000,000
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-news-doj-fentanyl-pam-bondi-lives-saved.html
A spokesman for the DOJ responded with the following math:
1 kg of fentanyl * .1518 (current purity level) * 1000 (to convert to grams) / by .002 (amount needed for a deadly dose) = lethal dose of fentanyl
So, 3,400 Kg of fentanyl seized in Trump’s first 100 days
3400*.1518
*1000
/.002
=258,060,000 deadly doses
Correct. That's how I initially figured it out.
Pam Bondi said 75% of Americans were saved. I laughed, that's 268,500,000 people, then it hit me. I've heard a number of the population that the Heritage Foundation believes is a "good number of Americans."
It was 100,000,000. Current population is 358,000,000. 89,500,000 is way too fucking close to 100,000,000 for it to be a coincidence. Then they started shutting life saving things down rapidly. They mentioned new census.
In another interview or maybe it was writing and I wish I could find it right now, "obviously executions would be a problem for the state, and would meet heavy resistance. Famine and disease happen all the time."
The disease one is obvious. But famine is much more nuanced. Tarrifs. Cutting farmers off from their ability to fund their farms. Cutting the food programs. Inflation in eggs. Think of how vital a source of nutrition eggs are.
This regime wants to make the excess death count higher than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao combined.
That's like 10%
If Trump had done this the first time around before Covid hit, many more people, including his fat ass, would have died.
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.
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.
First they came for the.....
This has to be classic case of nurgle cultist wanting everyone to feel all of nurgles blessings.
Someone burn nurgles garden again please.
Great, who is going to tell me that kids need to get infected with airborne AIDS in order to protect the rich now?
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.
For only $5000 a month, you too can sponsor an American neckbeard like me! For your generosity, you will receive one poorly made crayon drawing each year, and a heartfelt letter written by Chat GPT.
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
Looks like it is happening already https://infosec.pub/post/36042267
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.
Blue food dye and other fun things > science
Even if the US somehow manages to have another election and elect a sane president, it will be an almost impossible task to undo all the damage the Trump regime did.
I believe that is the point of all of this
They literally laid it all out in Project 2025. There are some nuances to how it's unfolding but this is what they wanted.
Yeah I think this is the headline that finally did it for me. Hurting Democrats isn't enough, hurting minorities isn't enough. They want the country to no longer exist. They want a smouldering pile of rubble left, literally preferably, but they'll accept metaphorical if that's all they can get. The point of this administration is to destroy America and kill as many citizens in the process as humanly possible.
No matter how bad it's seemed I swear fucking God the next day it's proven worse than that. At no point was it possible to accurately assess how royally fucked we are or how evil these Nazis are. And you'll have Republicans defending all this shit even if they personally are being sent to the gulag. They'd say we're overreacting even as they themselves are having the executioner's hood forced over their heads. I don't understand how it would be possible to use the power of government in more evil ways.
That is precisely the reason for the existential dread this has brought to my life as I ponder what kind of world will be left to my kids when I die.
I can't even rest assured that people in power after Trump will not be Trumpists, and even if I could be assured of that, I'm not at all sure we're going to get all this shit fixed before whatever the next catastrophe is.
I expect to die of old age in a world where we have not yet returned to at least as good as where things were when Trump took over. (and there was already a lot of fucked up shit then.)
And as someone who has spent nearly six decades rooting for humanity in most ways, I'm pretty fucking disappointed that we dropped the ball this hard on this one.
With a bit of luck, they can use this to regrow it better. it'll still be a gigantic task.
I really think revolutionaries massively underestimate how much of society is built on well functioning and enduring institutions, and how much more difficult it is to build them from scratch compared to reforming them (in many, but not all cases).
That being said, the US is a basket case, so perhaps a revolution might be worth it.
Still sceptical, though.
(This is my biggest disagreement with some other socialists I've met where I live, which is not the US)
Not in my lifetime. I do hope leaders emerge who can harness the modern levers to our brains in a constructive way, but even if that started next year at the midterms, the decades of work ahead just to get back to the institutional knowledge and regulatory protections that existed last year exceed my life expectancy. The hope is that happens so my nieces and nephews will benefit.