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mdaware.org • 33 days ago

this is just dumbly bad

New: Trump officials have paused all external communications at health agencies like CDC, FDA, NIH.

No health alerts and the famed MMWRs; no updates to key websites or social media posts.

And no indication how long the pause will last.

With @rachelroubein.bsky.social + Lena Sun.

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princessklo.bsky.social•33 days ago

Even worse than dumbly bad - shaking my head! 🤯

savedemocracy123.bsky.social•32 days ago

Trump is the greatest THREAT Americans have ever faced. His anti-truth, anti-science, anti-Climate Science, willful ignorance, woeful arrogance, Big Oil greed, Russian Allied Corporate Fascist Oligarchy is, in fact, the greatest danger to ALL Living Beings on Planet Earth. TRUMP IS THE ENEMY WITHIN.

jegath.bsky.social•33 days ago

😡

bethjacksonlb.bsky.social•33 days ago

Expected. I stopped applying for jobs at any agency under HHS after the election.

drjohnaquino.medsky.social•33 days ago

frozen the Hotmail accounts ???

robtbell.bsky.social•33 days ago

Can we please please please recognize what's happening? The goal of the Trumpists is to weaken the USA in every way - ruin its health, its economy, its legal system and its international alliances - so it can be exploited domestically by billionaires, and defated globally by Russia and China.

charleskinbote.bsky.social•33 days ago

This definitely seems like it could lead to some poor outcomes

talace.bsky.social•33 days ago

So when the next pandemic comes we won’t know anything about it

dendromecon.bsky.social•33 days ago

The Floriduh COVID-19 approach: if you don’t report it, it’s not happening!

wierdkindinfluence.bsky.social•33 days ago

Bird flu is a bigger risk than people understand.

And we know how he handles pandemics.

talesofendoland.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is why the MAHA crowd scares me the most. There isn’t a person in the country that isn’t at risk on (some level) from these choices

mdaware.org•33 days ago

iwashyna.bsky.social•33 days ago

Nurses are always right

maynot432.bsky.social•33 days ago

No one said you elected a rocket scientist…yes, this dumb

haveyouanywool.bsky.social•33 days ago

People will die.

mikemcinnis.bsky.social•33 days ago

What’s the reasoning here? I mean, beyond “the cruelty is the point,” what purpose (misguided or otherwise) does this serve?

charleskinbote.bsky.social•33 days ago

Trump doesn't like the optics of a pandemic happening while he's in charge

Seems he's settled on a method of, "pretend they don't happen"

mikemcinnis.bsky.social•33 days ago

But it doesn’t take THAT much badness for people to notice that our government is no longer protecting us

charleskinbote.bsky.social•33 days ago

Keep in mind we're discussing a man who still claims that he won the 2020 election, and that he won the popular vote in 2016

He's not gonna let pesky things like "facts" and "reality" interfere with his particular worldview

mdaware.org•33 days ago

and?

mikemcinnis.bsky.social•33 days ago

And we rise up with pitchforks, storm the castle, and overthrow the Evil Incompetent Overlords.

Or impeach them.

Or something.

mdaware.org•33 days ago

I suspect they’re aiming to strike a balance or something

mdaware.org•33 days ago

reverse course on public health

mdaware.org•33 days ago

oh and medical health stuff too

mikemcinnis.bsky.social•33 days ago

But why? To kill people? Do they legitimately think that health comms is dangerous or bad? I do not get it.

mdaware.org•33 days ago

RFK apparently does

mikemcinnis.bsky.social•33 days ago

If there were a huge recall on a batch of common medications (e.g., all Tylenol pills manufactured in December contained lethal amounts of strychnine and they were on drugstore shelves right now) but the FDA is FORBIDDEN to put out a press release, whom does that benefit?

trappiste.bsky.social•33 days ago

They don’t do things because it benefits anyone, they do things because they’re teenage boys with a baseball bat knocking over every exhibit at the science fair for fun.

missdeemeanor.bsky.social•33 days ago

These are things that should not be allowed

dangrously.bsky.social•33 days ago

they did this last time too, and dozens of alt government agency accounts cropped up on twitter.

I doubt this can happen under... the new management.