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'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre (www.msnbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/science@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/36033796

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

RFK is on track to have one of the highest kill counts for a powerful US figure in the first quarter of the 21st century. That is an intimidating sentence and yet it seems to be undeniably true, I don't see how we can swerve from the path of mass amounts of unnecessary death in the US from disease. Shame on us.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not just in the United States. The Lancet estimates just cancelling USAID will kill 14 million people between now and 2030. 14 million avoidable deaths because the world's richest man thought feeding the poor was a waste.

    RFK is on track to do a lot of damage, but he has some stiff competition.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    RFK is on track to do a lot of damage, but he has some stiff competition.

    Yes but RFK genuinely terrifies me more than the competition, he is a super-critical confluence of stupidity, confidence and undisguised fascism.

    I am ADHD, RFK is intent on killing people like me off through his policy, that isn't an exaggeration and he is likely to succeed by the look of things. The centrist position in the US is that people like me have had it coming, sooooo...

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