If we wanted to make people sicker, on purpose, this is what we would do - ThreadSky

anneapplebaum.bsky.social • 30 days ago

If we wanted to make people sicker, on purpose, this is what we would do

The Trump administration, moving quickly to clamp down on health and science agencies, has canceled a string of scientific meetings and instructed federal health officials to refrain from all public communications.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...

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mmql.bsky.social•29 days ago

This at a time when bird flu is mutating and jumping species. We are all doomed with these quacks at the helm.

dmerkhen.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’m so scared to see what is going to happen from all this. I know it won’t be good. For all Trumps denial about any involvement with Project2025 he sure is following it closely.

birdthompson.bsky.social•30 days ago

he wants to kill us

bubbanyarlathotep.bsky.social•30 days ago

...and pull out of the WHO ...and shut down cancer research ...and...

iamsaltytrash.bsky.social•30 days ago

Okay, I think it's so he can kill off as many poor people as possible, do a huge land grab when they can't pay for stuff and own a ton of land for dirt cheap. Also less resistance. That's what colonizers did to the indigenous people. Weakened them with bio warfare, essentially.

suhails.bsky.social•30 days ago

They have always been into eugenics.

ericgamonal.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes it's on purpose

ofhuman.bsky.social•30 days ago

This prob sounds insane, but I am really wondering if dear leader is on a mission to break apart the US, as the USSR was broken apart. As an instrument of revenge on behalf of his pal Vlad. It seems he is hell bent on weakening fed gvt and throwing everything to states. Next step, breakup.

reggiewallinsky.bsky.social•30 days ago

If that were the case Melania would sport a Z on her chest.

ncsudem.bsky.social•30 days ago

They’re eugenicists who believe life expectancies are too long due to modern medicine. Diseases thin the herd of the old, sick, and poor.

Bird flu’s spreading wildly. Covid numbers are rising. Gov health agencies can’t communicate for 90 days.

End: ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, vaccines.
Kill millions.

suzkiniry.bsky.social•30 days ago

Well an unhealthy electorate wouldn’t be focusing on presidential grift

cottagedweller.bsky.social•30 days ago

Americans deserve exactly what’s coming. Better start ordering the refrigerator trucks.

pbgfler.bsky.social•30 days ago

I wish someone would explain to me the thinking behind this

akneuron.bsky.social•28 days ago

Why? What's the point? Is chaos the only point?

hupp47.bsky.social•30 days ago

I thought the future asylum seeker wanted a white nation, not a dead nation.

experimental22.bsky.social•30 days ago

The Republican Party has declared war on the American people. It is making it clear that it will kill your parents, your children, your friends.

joasia14.bsky.social•30 days ago

Dont really understand why they are doing this.

Making health worse for the population. Aren't they obsessed with population decline. Stopping immigration. Just using Americans.

Project 2025 not copying ideas from dictatorships with good healthcare.

dagies.bsky.social•30 days ago

Even people who voted for him. He doesn't care.

Also, great timing, since we have a bird flu driving up...checks notes....THE COST OF EGGS

welshrarebit.bsky.social•30 days ago

He’s still enraged that people preferred Dr Fauci’s advice on Covid to his. For that we must all suffer.

kgrant1073.bsky.social•30 days ago

You are bang on - it's the only thing that makes any sense.

thepeterbriggs.bsky.social•30 days ago

Does anyone understand the purpose of the Republican Party? I just...I don't get the whole thing about wrecking society, ruining people's lives, and making the planet worse? There's something fundamental I feel like I'm missing here?

dogsinapile.bsky.social•30 days ago

The purpose of the GOP is to provide cover for looting the public coffers. The obsession with burning everything down is part to destroy everything that makes looting ostensibly illegal, part because it angers the left, and THAT is what keeps the base happy despite the negative effects on them.

thepeterbriggs.bsky.social•30 days ago

That would be a rationale. But the mindset behind it? It's alien, and unfathomable to me. I don't understand why 50% of human beings are racist, venal, greedy, and hateful.

oatsmint.bsky.social•30 days ago

Incredibly stupid

dean-alan.bsky.social•30 days ago

One way for Trump to solve the social security funding issue is to make elderly people get sick and die sooner.

carlak.bsky.social•30 days ago

During the Irish famine, some English politicians painted it as a God-given opportunity to get rid of undesirables. Same thing here.

eugeneinoregon.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes, but those sicker people won't know that Trump and minions are the cause.

mlesh02.bsky.social•30 days ago

I’m scared.

usg1863.bsky.social•30 days ago

Bleach is still cheap and it might do the trick.

Making America Great. Nice choice everyone.

wakeup92.bsky.social•30 days ago

If you wanted to use illness as a sort of genocide, but along class lines as opposed to race, what would that be called?

saramartin.bsky.social•30 days ago

Genusmorbicide

susanseekshope.bsky.social•30 days ago

Covid killed many vulnerable people. Seems as if someone was pleased about that.

massdisillusion.bsky.social•30 days ago

Fuck Republicans

alicethewonderdog.bsky.social•30 days ago

Trump wants to clamp down on all messaging.
During Covid he was often contradicted by scientists and medical professionals. He’s not going to let that happen again. He will control the message.
What style of government does that remind you of?

mrwong.bsky.social•30 days ago

Beyond frightening.

mntgrl.bsky.social•30 days ago

Don't these MAGAts know this crap affects them too? Get ready for Grandma to be on a ventilator because she can't get a Covid vaccination. This is insane. Congress better get their act together and stop this maniac. #CDC

thbransfield.bsky.social•30 days ago

Is this some petty revenge for COVID scientists speaking out last time? Is he trying to generate wealth for the health insurance industry?

ssyu.bsky.social•30 days ago

They do.

caitbrie.bsky.social•30 days ago

Way to come up with bullshit to realign and invent arguments that undocumented are causing a health crisis. Which is also in the EOs.

davids8663.bsky.social•30 days ago

A large part of the reason America became great was that it led the world in science.

southpatt.bsky.social•30 days ago

I am very worried for America

cpanza.bsky.social•30 days ago

"No more science here until we can figure out what the HELL IS GOING ON!"

dmzoutis.bsky.social•30 days ago

The people likely to pay the price -- meaning their kids will die -- first up will be *rump cult. Elections matter. Vote for an insane felon and you and yours die. Dems need to run smart on hlth care, women's hlth, freedoms, jobs, and, the price of eggs, in 2026. That's it. Win so people don't die.

maiett.bsky.social•30 days ago

Res ipsa loquitor.

sjlessman.bsky.social•30 days ago

I think this goes back to the pandemic. Remember he was whinging on the daily that if we just stopped testing for COVID then we wouldn't have any new cases of COVID.

joynicole.bsky.social•30 days ago

Make people sick, uneducated, and uninformed so they don’t have energy and information to see their corruption

a4pipeproblem.bsky.social•30 days ago

If this is how it is, we need independent agencies like the AMA to start issuing their own national alerts about various health concerns in the nation, both emergent and ongoing, in line with their own stated mission: to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health.

bethslagter134.bsky.social•30 days ago

Trump wants to hide the viruses and recalls to keep Americans stupid.He’s going to be killing more Americans again.

profzeger.bsky.social•30 days ago

So far, it’s all even worse than I imagined. None of the orders signed or policies announced will improve the lives of working class Americans or spur the desired ‘golden age’. Both IMF and GS (!) stated today the USA has the best functioning economy globally. Lots to mess up, and quickly so!

bluehuman2718.bsky.social•30 days ago

What do you expect from brain dead, ignorant MAGA fools. As usual the well informed will be fine and the gullible will suffer.

vlipman.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yes indeed, leadership in reverse 😐

cj20000.bsky.social•30 days ago

drumph thinks he’s above the pathogens :/

begemot13.bsky.social•30 days ago

But we'll make raw milk free!!

angels4peace.bsky.social•30 days ago

Eugenics 101

lelacass.bsky.social•29 days ago

Exactly

brownswords.bsky.social•30 days ago

No question this is partly due to the rise in the Bird Flu. Trump knows he never had control of the narrative during COVID. If we’re gonna have something similar, he won’t make that mistake again.

meowthrandir.bsky.social•30 days ago

What does this mean for researchers and grants the NIH is funding/collaborating with? It's unclear, but given that his plan in the first admin to slash NIH funding could easily combine with his desire to hurt the "elites" (academics and scientists), I fear for the jobs of 300k Americans & the public

equinas.bsky.social•30 days ago

Trump barely survived Covid and was quick to get the vaccine as soon as he could. He is just an evil person.

tessablackwell.bsky.social•30 days ago

I think it's actually just blind ignorance, knowing that Kennedy is involved.

wsullydun.bsky.social•30 days ago

Can't fight back when we are all too sick and dying

shutzy55.bsky.social•30 days ago

Maybe the goal is to kill most of us off and enslave the rest?

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