MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) has been put on hold, for the first time in it’s 60 year history.
“On January 23, 2025, the CDC failed to release a new weekly issue of MMWR for the first time in the publication’s over 60-year history. The failure was a direct result of the second Trump administration ordering an indefinite “pause” on public communications by all branches of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Preventing CDC from publishing scientific data via the MMWR represents a radical departure from protocol that will undermine the public’s trust in the Trump Administration,” Jennifer Nuzzo, who runs the Pandemic Center at Brown University, wrote.[25]”
But yeah, it’s all cool. /s No IT’S NOT! I’m not sure how this can undermine public trust, if there wasn’t any to begin with. It only confirms that disaster will be arriving soon. And the Fed isn’t going to be much help. Work within your communities, mutual aid will be what keeps us afloat.
For example: https://mastodon.social/@Bellison22/113900490620796296 and: https://www.theskimm.com/news/reproductive-rights-gov
This is scary. Why would someone want to hide that specific information ahead of time? Also, that someone is a puppet of an enemy state and couldn’t have mishandled the previous infectious disease outbreak any worse. And last time, he disbanded the federal epidemic team before COVID came out. This is like evil-villain level foreshadowing.
If you care about your health or your family’s health, yall need to move to a blue state quickly and hunker down for the next 4 years. This madman is going to do everything he can to weaken and separate the union. We need to switch from progress to containment mode.
Well, there may be an imminent incoming pandemic, or it’s just normal fascism things, like turning off all public information and then whitelisting propaganda-safe data to be turned back on when it’s vetted. Can’t really tell which possibility is a worse sign of things to come.
Could be any disaster:
- turn off WHO
- disband FEMA
- disband Aviation Safety Committee
Now there’s no one left to say the administration handles the next disaster poorly
That’s what I can’t stand about these types of people. There’s never any definite anything because they are working on constant contingency, so one can’t prepare. You just have to be ready for everything at all times. It’s exhausting.
Two things can be true.
Definitely a fascist thing.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
The whole “the cruelty is the point” thing is so foreign to me. It isn’t difficult to cause hardship with clean intentions. To cause intentional pain broadly and blindly just doesn’t make sense to me. And I can “devils advocate” and try to empathize fairly well (hard to know if that’s true without acting like a creeper).
Global dominance?
The US CDC, one of the crown jewels of American science and democracy, world leader in it’s field, savior to millions, ruined by a mobbed up failed casino owner and real estate developer from Queens
Ruined by Republican voters who would rather make sure the immigrants are punished than survive the next bird flu.
By racists who feel the need to push down their fellow man than save them.
I’ve already been assured by them that the bird flu doesn’t exist.
I should note this is occurring in discussions about egg prices.
“If you can’t see it then it isn’t happening!”
That’s the logic he applied to covid testing.
Wouldn’t want to have to go shutting any business down, people can fall profits must never fall
Priorities!©®™
So are any CDC staff working on ways to get word out on threats outside of the officially-gagged channels?
I would rather they don’t lose their jobs by doing so, but civil disobedience is absolutely called for here.
They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.
I would presume they can use their personal accounts. Or set up an alternate org outside of US jurisdiction.
The word of a pandemic would spread regardless of CDC. When Covid started there where rumors in Europe (Jan 2020) of people dropping dead on the streets in China. By February there where videos of tourists in China going around with masks because everybody else was. A word spreads faster than a virus.
Can’t have a crisis if we don’t call it a crisis.
Special Health Exercise
Three days tops.
Shit we already seeing it real time. Facebook recently banned anything related to Linux.
I was going to call bullshit but damn if you aren’t right.
Lolwut?
I deleted my Facebook some years ago, and so don’t have the means to double check this. Is this for real?
Linux is all too woke for Fascistbook with the penguins, furries, and long socks.
We all going to be deported to Linus’ house for not using Microsoft spyware. All because some Chinese AI shook Zuck’s AI investors.
well, I hope we don’t end up having a global lockdown again, but if we do, I’ll be sure to call it the America Pox or Trump Flu or something polemic
There won’t be lock downs in the US this time.
States and cities still can. Buisnesses can decide to as well. Groups and individuals can also lock themselves down. Basically: communities.
In theory they can, but when a trump backed federal government and law enforcement is breathing down their neck with implicit threats of court cases and funding cuts I wonder if a lot of places will want to do anything.
Hopefully if your area did well during covid, it’ll do well agian.
My area was forced to do well by our governor, which naturally meant they wanted to thank her by plotting to kidnap and murder her.
That’s… uh
For those unfamiliar with this story:
On October 8, 2020, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrests of 13 men suspected of orchestrating a domestic terror plot to kidnap American politician Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and otherwise using violence to overthrow the state government. Some have labeled the attempt as an example of stochastic terrorism, where violent rhetoric by prominent figures inspired the plot.
Just corpses littering the street, and chants of “fake news”
there weren’t any us based lockdowns last time
Do you mean federal? Cause I’m not sure about that, but there were lockdowns for sure in the us
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_government_responses_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic
I’m not quite sure why I’m getting downvoted for this, during the covid19 pandemic, there wasn’t a single local, state or federally mandated lockdown in the united states of america, ever, not one, not a single solitary lockdown
Pox Americana
Please, 48% of voters didn’t agree with this at all.
Give credit where it’s due and feed his narcissism too: Trump Flu!
A lot of people in Nazi Germany didn’t vote for it either, nobody remembers them as anything but Nazis.
Other countries don’t have the time or patience to be checking every fucking US refugee to make sure they have the correct politics.
Nope, we’re all going to be assumed to be just as dangerous as the rest of these fucking Nazis. Don’t get it twisted. It’s not their fucking job to do the legwork to figure out we’re not pieces of shit. Easier to just close the borders to dipshit Nazi Americans.
It’s like those sayings about if you have 9 Nazis and one regular person at a table you have 10 Nazis at a table or how about if you allow Nazis into your bar, soon enough it will just be known as a Nazi bar, because they’ll start to bring their friends once they’re comfortable.
Look, it’s not nice to admit, but because we’re US citizens, we’ve got a seat at the same table as these motherfuckers in the eyes of the rest of the world. They don’t see a table with half nice people and half Nazis, they don’t have the time or effort for that, they just see Nazis and I couldn’t blame them one bit.
48% of voters is an internal US matter and the USA is represented by Trump, who has already speed run to Russian level censorship, expansionism, hate, and authoritarianism.
The guy forces release of a low-confidence report blaming a lab leak and forbids the CDC from cooperating with the WHO in the same week. This is world-level abandonment, probably out of stupidity so that the US profits on drugs without considering that the USA is robbing the world of some of its best scientists.
More than a third of eligible voters didn’t vote. They were fine with either outcome.
I wonder if they’re still feeling the same way.
This seems like a good thread to ask someone to find/make a RSS feed of WHO Disease Outbreak News. https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news
For starters I’d recommend FreshRSS to selfhost your RSS feeds https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
And for the creation of one I’d recommend looking into RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file
RSS-Bridge lets you make RSS feeds for sites that don’t have one.
Woah hadn’t ever thought about selfhosting RSS, thanks
Thank you! I’m content to use Nextcloud News for my feed aggregate, but that bridge seems super helpful for various purposes.
Ignorance Is Strength!
In a country where being asleep is seen as better than being woke, you get what you deserve.
What historic disease do y’all plan on catching in the new post-medicine era? Consumption looking hot this time of year!
My doctor’s always bitching that I need to lose weight, so this could work. If not though I hear that antibiotic resistant flesh eating bacteria is a horrible way to die.
Package may contain up to 52 bug parts and or swine flu.
Easy!
Is there a non profit that can take over? Or a state(s) agency that can help out?
Just because the federal government decides they don’t want to do a thing doesn’t mean states can’t do it (or heck local community).
This is true, but it’s worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.
With the government staying silent, it’s going to be more difficult to get a sense of what’s happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn’t necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.
Yep it would have been best if federal government were to be the ones because they can work across arbitrary state lines for collab. But something is better than nothing.
Yeah, and like I said, it’s not impossible.
At the cynical end, there’s still business owners that recognize that having a slew of sick employees is bad for their bottom line, so even if the federal government does nothing, various businesses alongside the humanitarian groups will flex whatever influence they have to ensure governors, etc. do what needs to be done.
I’m sure someone can lawyer up a way to skirt the crybaby’s command. Say they didn’t ‘publish a communication’ but rather that ‘data was made available through existing public and partnership channels’.
Except oh publishing anything right now is prohibited. They can’t even release the data.
States and newspapers need to FOIA the data now.
California would likely be all over it. As much as I don’t care for Newsom, he really doesn’t like Trump, so I call that a win.
Kansas currently has an outbreak of drug resistant TB.
There’s also the possibility of pulling coverage of PREP/doxy/other medications designed to prevent STIs from insurance coverage. This would devastate the gay community, which is why they would do it.
Times like this are why I’m glad I live in a blue state. Not that it will ship the problems, it even slow then down. The Orange Idiot is going after Chicago right now like he’s got a vendetta, and diseases don’t care about imaginary lines.
*American federal health agencies.
Smith was intelligent though
