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Well, most of us are old. It's time to die to MAGA.

There will always be variants spreading.

This will be the first year in which America's health agencies are kneecapped by an administration of idiots, and science is shunned.

Trump's firing of epidemiologists stationed overseas in 2018 was just the beginning of our return to the dark ages.

Exclusive: U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak - March 25, 2020
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us...

Shifting $3 billion from a top research university to trade schools. I hope my good friend the plumber is up to running a hospital ward swamped with Covid patients needing ventilators for a chance to survive.

Among those laid off include all 50 first-year officers of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, and perhaps some second-year officers. The EIS, established in 1951, recruits some of the brightest public health leaders into a two-year program to train healthcare professionals to identify and respond to disease outbreaks.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/omerawan/2025/02/15/t...

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