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@aoc.bsky.social would you share which campaign training programs you think are effective? seems like the support you had as a cohort w/ BNC was important. lots of potential candidates over on www.reddit.com/r/fednews/new & would like to share trainings that have the necessary depth to to support.
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I would advise Americans to look at foreign health agencies as the CDC will soon deteriorate into a snake oil peddling shop. Canada is probably the most applicable.
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“As part of the fellowship, they serve for two years around the CDC or deployed to health departments across the country, often on the front lines of public health responses.”
We are less safe now in our own communities. I will never understand this.
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My best friend was an EIS officer who went to Liberia twice during the Ebola outbreaks a decade ago, who also made me aware of how many domestic situations(so much food contamination!) never come to light because we generally contain cases so well.
There’s gonna be a lot of people feeling unwell.
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They are a tiny fraction of CDC’s workforce but provide incalculable value to both CDC and the nation. Cruelly firing them with hours’ notice in the name of efficiency is an outrage. To our EIS officers, we will never forget your service to this nation.
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During measles outbreaks they’ve deployed to perform contact tracing and assist with vaccinating at risk children. They deploy or provide technical assistance for foodborne, waterborne, viral, and fungal outbreaks. They investigated vaping-related lung injury. They investigate opioid overdoses.
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EIS fellows are CDC's “disease detectives” first responders. They stationed at CDC and at health departments throughout the US. During the pandemic they entered houses of infected persons to gather blood samples that would assist in development of COVID-19 antibody tests and antibody treatments.
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If I was in that room, I would hope I could convince everyone to walk out arm in arm within like 20m. bsky.app/profile/harr...
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Yep! It's a huge thing! We can get a mobile city of a thousand people spun up in a few days with hot food and water and sanitation and showers and laundromats and sleeping trailers and it's fucking magic - except like you said, it's not magic - it's hard work and careful pre-planning.
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I don't know about Interior but I remember from a project many moons ago that Forest Service has thousands of contracts lined up & specific processes for getting people to the field to get people active and paid *yesterday* for fire management, you can't just magic that up when the fires start
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it's an incredible example of government efficiency, repurposing staff on the fly to serve critical needs.
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And the vast majority of these people do it as a collateral duty! They might be the timber sale administrator or the front desk clerk or the wildlife biologist - but when an incident happens they become the finance staff or the supply officer or the long-range planning analyst.
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The Air Force says NKAWTG - Nobody Kicks Ass Without Tanker Gas.
Well, in the wildland fire world, Nobody Kicks Ass Without Chainsaw Gas.
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"we didn't lay off firefighters!!!"
no you laid off all the people who plan firefighting operations and feed, support, and pay the firefighters over weeks and months in the field.
the unsung heroes of wildland firefighting are - just like in the Army - the logistics folks. no tail, no teeth.
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we already were shrinking the number of national incident management teams because we couldn't find enough qualified people to staff them.
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they fired 10% of the entire Forest Service.
do people understand that practically half of the country's complex incident management capacity is contained in that single agency? and I don't mean the operational firefighters - I mean the staff and support functions.