Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century.
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They really want to recreate a Guilded age where they are the wealthy monarchy and the rest of us are subjects.
If we are sick or dead, it makes their lives easier
The horrid Covid response that led to a million of us dying seems like it was a trial run.
reminds me of the movie "Elysium" - the 2013 dystopian sci-fi film, directed by Neill Blomkamp, set in 2154, where the wealthy live on a luxurious space station called Elysium while the rest of humanity lives on a ruined Earth.
Tech bro geniuses too thick to realize if they count on us serfs to do all the work, including supplying their food & drink ... let's just say a lot of us have worked in restaurants & there are many ways to scale up spitting in the bad customer's food.
I got the email from the new director. It’s exhausting. I am outside of DC this week and my Trump supporting family are fine and there are no bad effects to their life. My mom didn’t even hear about the Hegseth chat group. Ugh
Here come the next pandemics and epidemics, and there’s no one left to name them and research them and to lead the fight against them and communicate to the rest of us truthfully about what’s going on.
Cancer trials canceled and a future E. coli outbreak or Salmonella deaths. It’ll take awhile to hit the public. With the media complicit most people won’t notice until it impacts them personally.
While there might be some conceivable question about who was responsible for the Covid pandemic, there will be none about who is responsible for the next one.
Old people are expensive. They aren’t productive, they use a tremendous amount of healthcare, and hog up all the real estate. So no one should be surprised that Republicans are taking aim at them. There is no honor. No respect. No affection. It always happens with authoritarian.
No FDA and no clinical trials in America means we just killed the US pharmaceutical industry and can expect serious drug shortage. Just what middle America voted for.
That was the real reason they appointed RFK jr. They knew he was 'the one', so drunk with wanton power, he would do anything to obtain it and hold onto it, with psychotic glee.
The malice can be explained by downsizings and cuttings across govt. Defund, shut down, and divert as much government funding to their private control. Techbro fascism is his new venture. Musk, Vance, and the Yarvin enthusiasts they’ve placed into positions have big plans. https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
Outrage is an expected response to Trump and Musk’s sabotage of American democracy. Their betrayal benefits only America's enemies. At noon on Saturday April 5th, we need to all attend a rally, make our presence known and our voices heard.
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Don't let that sacrifice be wasted.
End maga by casting your vote for any Blue canidate, boycott maga businesses, raise your voices, resist, executive orders can be challenged, and call out every injustice with a text, and email to every maga House and Senate member. Never vote for any maga supporter.
All of this infrastructure, knowledge, etc., can't be recreated overnight elsewhere; you can't just ship a defunded research lab to another country. Medical research has ground to a halt worldwide for many years.
Yes, eventually, other countries will pick up the slack, likely with researchers that are leaving US institutions. But there'll be gaps in research and many projects, especially those that take years or decades to run, will have to start at square-one and could easily just be permanently abandoned.
There must be some way to communicate with people that this is the turning point of their access to healthcare ans therapies. That even if they couldn't understand the work of these structures, they benefitted more from them than they paid for in taxes. All Americans need to connect the dots now
Research on anything takes years to set up and complete. It's not ever an overnight thing to start up let alone complete. The skills it takes aren't overnight skills either.
Everything they are doing is pure destructive madness. It's not rational.
The long term Nurses Study and others have lead us to many plausible factors in health and illness. Losing the continued data gathering from these studies is unimaginable. Except who cares about the the working classes?
The rich will follow Bryan Johnson and take the blood of our children.
My son was diagnosed with leukemia in 1990. Odds for cure were 70%. He went through 5 yrs of treatment and survived. We took part in several drug trials, believing that cures are found through research. The cure rate now is 90%. Stopping research will kill people. Ending research is murder.
Maybe it’s because of your son’s illness and participation in trials in the 70’s, that helped my grandson be a survivor today. Thank you. Thank you to your son. Can’t stop research!
Your post did the same for me. I’m sure many have benefitted from your son’s experience. I’m sure of it. And now his wedding…what a wonderful event that will be. Enjoy every second.
Thank you so much! These illnesses that threaten the lives of so many cannot be suddenly ignored. Research saves lives. It matters to millions of people. And watching my wonderful son marry the girl of his dreams will be a joyous day for all of us.❤️
I’m sorry, realized I had my years wrong. Your son was ill in the 90’s, not the 70’s. You’re so right about research saving lives!! It affects every one of us in one way or another.
So happy for your son! I work with Brian Druker who developed the original Gleevec. I work as a human subjects research analyst. The progress made just in my 25 years is astonishing. I'm heartbroken that the hard work of researchers is coming to a halt. Devastating. 😔
Please read about ‘Project Russia’ - it's aligned with all the destruction Trump and his regime are doing. It's the overall master plan.Trump is deliberately destroying the economy. He is doing this for Putin to create a new world order. It's described in 'Project Russia' https://bit.ly/4jhvi1A
I wonder if the Orange Mess
wants to erase the fact that over ONE MILLION AMERICANS died from COVID while he told them to drink bleach & take HORSE TRANQUILIZER.
And 50 years of Title X. Last December, I asked my primary care physician if he was worried about heath information guidance going into Trump and possibly Kennedy. He said he wasn't. He thought there were people there to keep the work going.
Absolutely. But again, he's a marquee villain. It's important to also call out the people actively carrying out this destruction, the foot soldiers. And to hang it around their necks for the rest of their lives. Make them suffer the consequences of what they're doing.
I’m telling all who will listen. My 32 years in Life Science is abruptly halted. Those like me who support research are terrified. No money. No new labs. Grants cancelled. It’s devastating an industry of thousands of people and endangering people’s lives
So absolutely sorry for everything going on in the beloved U.S. Cannot begin to imagine your feelings of loss now. Canadians are angry, but we have not been hurt by our own government the way USians have. Chin up. Wear a “we shall overcome” hat and keep writing. 💖🇨🇦💖🇺🇸
Almost every guardrail built by lawmakers for the purpose of giving Americans better lives post WWll have been undone by MTrump. Health, welfare, education, climate, consumer rights....Who would do this? Only someone who hates America and everything American, you know, like Vladimir Putin.
EXACTLY and this should apply to every other service they are gutting. Step one towards separation from the cult. Step two: withhold taxes that we're now paying for nothing in return.
Shapiro, Newsome, and every Democratic Governor should hire scientists from CDC and NIH to do medical research and vaccines. I’m angry that our federal taxes will be used for the desperate for more $ billionaires. This is a travesty.
Seriously worth emailing or calling some of these governors’ staffs (for those in the states). My D gov in NJ is finishing up his second term. Still worth trying. I’m going to do so.
I have resisted it, but I’m having to accept that early death is the Republican solution to Social Security financing.
So much good and irreplaceable work was done at the CDC.
And it’s unbelievably painful to use the past tense.
I ache for those people on clinical trials right now who hope to lessen or eradicate the progression of their illness with new medications. I guess Kennedy will tell them to take Vitamins and meditate.
This is another play from the Nazi Final Solution. Round up all the "defected" people. Those who are sick, physically, and mentally. This includes LBTQ. Then murder them as they serve no purpose.
U.S. life expectancy is already 10 years shorter than other industrialized countries, across the board. For example, a rich person in the U.S. has a life expectancy 10 years shorter than a rich Western European.
Making it so all the people with disabilities and chronic conditions die will technically increase the average level of health in the country, but they're also trying to make all the able-bodied people sick, so hard to gauge
Yet the mind boggling thing is when I talk to my patient's parents and point out that if it wasn't ACA, then their children would be dead...
They understand that quite well.
Yet, they still go and vote for trump!!!
Go figure.
I fear that we’re going to be in worst shape than the 19th century in some regards because people travel so much and we have much larger populations in concentrated areas that interact on a daily basis. We have improved sanitation, but will be exposed to more chemicals from deregulation.
Factory food production and farming with decreased regulation will expose us to more pathogens and super bugs that have developed drug resistance from overuse in humans and animals. Oh, and acute & chronic health conditions as a result of climate change.
In our little LA County mountain town, my 10 YO’s asthma has been off the charts this fall/winter because of high winds/dry winter causing much more particulates in the air, and then we had the fires, but we have had horrible fires year round at historic levels.
Tech billionaires think AI is going to replace their human workers and there are going to be more people than jobs and they don't want to be taxed to support non-workers. So the best solution is to let us die needlessly much more often.
In his book, he questions where or not HIV cases AIDS or if AIDS drugs work. The amount of harm is unprecedented, but also predictable to anyone who bothered to listen or read what he has been saying for years.
We can only hope every Republican has a kid or relative with some rare disease they will now not be able to get into an NIH trial of a cutting edge drug.
There will be NO flu shots next year nor Covid shots and no Bird Flu vax. Can we say thank you boys and girls to RFK jr and asshole tRump for killing us.
No doubt Yarvin-esque social Darwinism is behind the gutting of our health organizations, but I also think Trump wanted the CDC and NIH gone regardless, because Covid “made him look bad,” and he blames the organizations as well as individuals like Fauci and Birx.
The U.S. already has a low average life expectancy compared to other industrialized nations. I'm sure we'll see it decline further. To be really cheerful: I expect a pandemic in the next few years, worse than the last one because this "administration" is even worse than in 2020.
It’s impossible to see Trump as caring about America or the people. This is an instance where trickle down works. The destruction of healthcare in America. This isn’t about being cost effective. This is malevolent&hateful
Well, in all fairness, the CDC did a pretty shitty job of containing Covid.
CDC headquarters is in Atlanta , there was an airplane from Marseille France that was full of infected people, landed in Atlanta, and the CDC just let them loose.
It cost us trillions .
The strength of the American economy has been in research, education, rule of law, finance, etc. - knowledge work. This Administration is the revenge of the people who hate eggheads & would rather destroy the country than live in an America where knowledge workers receive any respect.
And if that means they or their kids die from something that an NIH researcher could have developed the cure for...well fuck it, they'll take that deal if they can put that NIH researcher out of a job, make them lose their home, and, preferably, deport them to boot.
Measles is merely the beginning of the turmoil we are poised to witness as the Trump administration weakens our health and research institutions. What lies ahead will be a deeply troubling unraveling in countless ways. https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
It doesn’t bode well for future generations. They’ll die of diseases that were conquered by vaccines in the 20th century. And since medical research will be halted they’ll be dying of diseases that we have learned to control. I’m glad I’m old…😳
All dictators love genocide. Covid was trump's genocide. He was told early on that the poor and minorities (aka democrats} would be the first to die. Oh, did I let something out of the bag?
Yeah but I think it’s the point- in the words of Ebenezer Scrooge, let them die and decrease the surplus population. It’s too expensive to pay to help the elderly, sick, and needy. Pardon the sarcasm.
They don't value humans. The lesson of Scrooge is you can't throw everyone away without losing all the good stuff.
The tech bros who believe they're all they need seem unaware of what empty, antisocial husks they are, and how that's not a great foundation for happy society
Republicans want you dead. The poor & sick go 1st. As the declared party of $ they have a designated dollar value for every American & have reasoned away the poor & sick as acceptable losses to help the economy & budget. The defunding kills people slower than a bullet but the end result is the same.
Not only are we witnessing the human cost to this disastrous destruction of our health care system of research, discovery & reporting; but think for a moment, the cost to all of us who paid taxes year after year for these congressionally appropriated agencies that took decades to build. Unlawful.
“Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.…
"…those who are
badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
A very bleak day of policy. That is the tRump regime. I expect nothing else from evil and greed.
BUT Cory Booker and Wisconsin happened so I know we will overcome this nightmare
Maybe it's my innate brain tendency but when things run together these days, I'm automatically assuming it's worse than I know. Meanwhile more are assuming, "It can't be that bad."
I think I'm more right than they are, but that doesn't really matter
Better than my college roommate's response: "That's fake news."
A lot of Americans don't know bc they're not following it closely but a larger number are refusing to know. It will hit them soon enough, but probably not in time to root these creeps out of power
Who needs real doctors, trusted researchers and peer reviewed medical journal articles when you can put a squirt of horse paste in your mouth to cure what ails you… 🧠 🪱 = 🐴 💩
Pharma moguls like LA Times owner Soon-Shiong literally helped a guy become president who promised to do away with medical science and they thought he didn’t mean it.
Idiots. Hope their undeserved fortunes go up in flames.
Healthcare in this country is already bleak bc of the unimaginable costs, and now we won't even be able to claim the best science. Our doctors and nurses will be walking in the dark with new diseases and illnesses. This is the suicide of a nation.
It's senseless. Utterly. A sop to the anti-scientific screeds of internet celebrities and idiots who think Econ is a valid way to evaluate health but don't realize health is fundamentally necessary for Econ.
This is part of the reason why some of us still mask. We saw the writing on the wall. Lots of things can harm our health that we can’t control. But wearing a mask is something within my control that I can do to help lower post viral issues and other infections.
Anyone else worried about another tuberculosis epidemic roaring back— except we’re infected with an antibiotic resistant strain of tuberculosis this time?
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If we are sick or dead, it makes their lives easier
The horrid Covid response that led to a million of us dying seems like it was a trial run.
Everything they love can be monkey-wrenched
https://www.wttw.com/playlist/2020/01/23/the-jungle-food-safety#:~:text=He%20said%20meat%20often%20fell,of%20rats%2C%E2%80%9D%20Sinclair%20wrote.
Lets win it all back
ALL of media needs to be pointing out that the legal reversals prove Trump does not have this authority
https://youtu.be/VeVhHNSe9Ks?...
Outrage is an expected response to Trump and Musk’s sabotage of American democracy. Their betrayal benefits only America's enemies. At noon on Saturday April 5th, we need to all attend a rally, make our presence known and our voices heard.
Don't let that sacrifice be wasted.
Everything they are doing is pure destructive madness. It's not rational.
The rich will follow Bryan Johnson and take the blood of our children.
wants to erase the fact that over ONE MILLION AMERICANS died from COVID while he told them to drink bleach & take HORSE TRANQUILIZER.
Not just Musk and RFK.
➡️ Brad Smith
➡️ Rachel Riley
Make ‘em famous.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/03/31/mass-firings-hit-speedbump-at-hhs-00261614
They distrust health institutions like they do government institutions, so they're happy to get rid of them.
Are you becoming the enemy?
IMPEACH Trump and Vance, CONVICT, and REMOVE.
Be done with this, save yourself and the country.
>>> This would all STOP if they objected. <<<
They have now become the enemy. Treat them accordingly!
So much good and irreplaceable work was done at the CDC.
And it’s unbelievably painful to use the past tense.
They understand that quite well.
Yet, they still go and vote for trump!!!
Go figure.
@firedbutfighting.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/perri4health.bsky.social/post/3llrdkg3uxk27
He is going to kill more of us than he did with covid the last time
Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other health agencies https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/04/01/breaking-news/trump-begins-mass-layoffs-at-fda-cdc-other-health-agencies/
They only want able bodied uneducated peasants to do the menial work for their benefit.
The US has the richest man in the world and has more billionaires than any other country in the world.
We're #1!
We're #1!
We're #1!
We can only hope every Republican has a kid or relative with some rare disease they will now not be able to get into an NIH trial of a cutting edge drug.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-impact-of-vaccines-on-mortality-decline-since-1900-according-to-published-science/
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CDC headquarters is in Atlanta , there was an airplane from Marseille France that was full of infected people, landed in Atlanta, and the CDC just let them loose.
It cost us trillions .
The tech bros who believe they're all they need seem unaware of what empty, antisocial husks they are, and how that's not a great foundation for happy society
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01016-z
Or check out Gil Duran at https://thenerdreich.com.
Yarvin's views are so cartoonish that to anyone not living in his alt reality, ...
https://bsky.app/profile/jennycohn.bsky.social/post/3llrolfylyc23
From the sounds of it, Yarvin is another Lysenko...
So understand the destruction of Gov't agencies in that light: they want to raze American institutions to the ground.
"…those who are
badly off must go there."
"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
JUMP OUT FROG! It’s getting hot.🥵
Be fierce, be brave, be free!
These idiots literally helped a guy become president who promised to do away with medical science and they thought he didn’t mean it.
With less wealth, too.
BUT Cory Booker and Wisconsin happened so I know we will overcome this nightmare
Maybe it's my innate brain tendency but when things run together these days, I'm automatically assuming it's worse than I know. Meanwhile more are assuming, "It can't be that bad."
I think I'm more right than they are, but that doesn't really matter
A lot of Americans don't know bc they're not following it closely but a larger number are refusing to know. It will hit them soon enough, but probably not in time to root these creeps out of power
Idiots. Hope their undeserved fortunes go up in flames.