They're legendary disease detectives: The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Very little may be left of it after today, writes @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t... - ThreadSky

martinenserink.bsky.social • 9 days ago

They're legendary disease detectives: The CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Very little may be left of it after today, writes @helenbranswell.bsky.social https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/trump-cdc-cuts-include-epidemic-intelligence-service-outbreak-investigators/

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meirlyme.bsky.social•9 days ago

He’s trying to kill us.

bfairbanks.bsky.social•8 days ago

It certainly does seem that way, doesn’t it?

meirlyme.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, I think part of this is about population control. think about who musk is and the kind of person that “other guy” is. There’s no mistaking that they want to take advantage of another loss of 1 million people after 🤷‍♀️ off losing nearly a mil people from Covid alone. deporting 1 million?

crose2u.bsky.social•9 days ago

💙🙏❤️

marshall73.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah that ain’t going to help. Just get sore knees.

dm-author.bsky.social•9 days ago

🙁

kestrel61.bsky.social•9 days ago

Trump did such a good job all by himself last pandemic, he doesn’t need this team. 🤣

chrisky3.bsky.social•8 days ago

Wrong , wrong, wrong!

pthoege.bsky.social•9 days ago

i just dont understand this...does Trump and do republicans understand the implications of this? Do they not see themselves as connected to others in this society? Even billionaires can get ill. This is the singlemost stupid action of all of them. This affects everyone and animals.

yelly-fish.bsky.social•9 days ago

They do understand the implications. Death, suffering, economic instability and ruin for almost all Americans. That’s what republicans WANT.

pthoege.bsky.social•9 days ago

including themselves?

yelly-fish.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes. Individuals may be deluded into thinking they’re a blessed social/political class but most of them are concerned only with how much they’re causing people they hate to suffer.
That’s why they’re so shitty to their own children, policy-wise.

sagakeramik.bsky.social•9 days ago

They have now: stopped all USAID, left WHO and appointment the worst person ever as head helth. Don’t think they know viruses don’t care about borders. Thousands are going to die.

ecppdx.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don't get it either. This seems like nothing other than trying to kill people.

fcz801.bsky.social•8 days ago

MTG she is worse

moonpie4me.bsky.social•8 days ago

All Americans
vacinated for school
boosters after

Trump policy
no child adult
will be vacinated
Anti vaccine MAGA and many immigrants not vaccinated from home countries

we all will pay
with our health
and possibly with
our life

mclangub.bsky.social•9 days ago

EIS Officers - they are like our green berets and other special forces, they are they vanguards of our wellbeing, the canaries of the mine called diseases and pandemics…beware dismantling the EIS!

shytshow.bsky.social•8 days ago

Brilliant. The USA was the only country with over one million Covid deaths. If Avian flu jumps to airborne in humans, get the fuck out of this country.

donellgmab.bsky.social•9 days ago

It only took 53 days.
Handpicked incompetents and doge is how he will do it.
https://www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true

alecmih88.bsky.social•9 days ago

Imagine living through a global pandemic, and then thinking it’s a smart decision to cut CDC funding. #TrumpsAmerica #Shitshow

sagakeramik.bsky.social•9 days ago

Specially when H5N1 is on the rise.

pauluspeters.bsky.social•9 days ago

Very disconcerting... H5N1 mortality is sky high.

sagakeramik.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yea. Wonder if the smoothbrainers have ever heard of the Spanish flu?

pauluspeters.bsky.social•8 days ago

With 54% of adults having literacy skills below the sixth-grade level, and most social media platforms dragging people further down into information poverty, most probably haven't

sagakeramik.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is it really that high? Frightening as hell. Idiocrasy is a documentary ☹️

sail-trimmer.bsky.social•8 days ago

I knew this administration was going to be bad but not this bad.

geraldine49.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is tragic. We are all at risk.

70suns.bsky.social•9 days ago

Fk every last republican

injusticejustice.bsky.social•8 days ago

The future with worm carrier ....

wokeineurope.bsky.social•8 days ago

Still, many people on here not getting it. He's not here to govern your country, but to utterly destroy it.

ebikeruk.bsky.social•8 days ago

How did they get on with detecting COVID?

tomdeariege.bsky.social•8 days ago

Move to France where medical research is still prized.

lorrainejoy1010.bsky.social•8 days ago

This is absolutely ludicrous!

kellifrazer2u.bsky.social•9 days ago

Our CDC has been our crown jewel, never meant to be misused by the DOD, never to be corrupted. It rests on the foundations of pure science, exclusively. It is the culmination of tightly contained, protected research & collected data. In the wrong hands it could command our worst nightmares.

kellifrazer2u.bsky.social•9 days ago

The CDC must be secured from Trump’s influence and reach, period. Hard stop.

sagakeramik.bsky.social•9 days ago

Just wait until they get their hands on everything in DEVCOM ARLa labs . ☹️

ernest33141.bsky.social•8 days ago

CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”