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drjengunter.bsky.social • 3 days ago

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM.

They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone.

www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Comments

benjaminjames.bsky.social•3 days ago

It was The Hot Zone that intrigued my daughter enough to become a microbiologist.

c-anemone-d.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just a normal country doing normal stuff under normal leadership, nothing to provoke abject horror over here

telemark.bsky.social•3 days ago

Is this bad?

(thinks back on my graduate work in pathogenic microbiology)

oh

hellocousin25.bsky.social•2 days ago

What media outlet has asked WHY? What’s the justification?

nocure4curiosity.bsky.social•3 days ago

As medical researchers have been saying for over a month now, a lot of Americans are going to get sick and die under the HHS decimation.

dmes63.bsky.social•3 days ago

FFS what a moron

phasmatic.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeet doge into the fukin sun.

curiouscitizen.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s modern eugenics. The answer is modern eugenics via orchestrated public disfunction, chaos, mass destruction, natural selection, etc.

4streegrrl.bsky.social•3 days ago

considering ebola can have a fatality rate of up to 90%, averaging around 50%, I think RFK jr is aiming more for extinction rather than eugenics.

sbpnw.bsky.social•3 days ago

It think he’s just a loon. No grand scheme, just a mentally unbalanced goof with a law degree.

michele-haywood.bsky.social•2 days ago

We will literally die of stupidity

bluegreen195.bsky.social•2 days ago

All the workers in the CDC and other labs should boycott RFK. He's a sick, ignorant fool.

carsjam.bsky.social•3 days ago

Even Elon (who has some pretty iffy medical science opinions of his own) had said that cutting Ebola programs was a mistake.

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•3 days ago

So many people are going die

mamiern85.bsky.social•3 days ago

CRE needs a break, right? MRSA has to be tired of fighting to survive.

Now they will be allowed to thrive, unburdened by researchers attempts to end them.

pamfulkerson.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’ve run out of words. It’s just a constant state of jaw drop at their absolutely cruel and stupid decisions

maryangelafitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

Great

talace.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh is right

kat86.bsky.social•3 days ago

Of course. Why would we want to be prepared for something like a pandemic when we just had one. Idiot RFK is an embarrassment to his family and our country

austenlied.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ebola, MRSA…he’s trying to kill us

skwalker.bsky.social•2 days ago

I call this… “Republican DUMB!” Remember COVID-19?

Bleach and Ivermectin anyone??

dawnalene.bsky.social•3 days ago

WTF

sierrarey10.bsky.social•3 days ago

alicethewonderdog.bsky.social•2 days ago

Make America medieval again.

pamc2112.bsky.social•2 days ago

What is wrong with these people?!

deweyoxberg.bsky.social•3 days ago

They really do want to kill us all don't they. What the fuck.

sbpnw.bsky.social•3 days ago

And again, we’d be better off with a high school biology teacher.

sbpnw.bsky.social•3 days ago

Apparently (based on an article posted on Bluesky) he doesn’t believe in the “germ theory” of illnesses. so we have 19th century economics and 17th century health care.

skwalker.bsky.social•2 days ago

Is this a reason to pursue IMPEACHMENT for “bodily harm and total disrespect for American lives?”