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Eliot Rosewater

(33,833 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:42 PM Friday

CDC completely destroyed past the point of no return

https://www.advocate.com/politics/demetre-daskalakis-cdc-resignation-interview


But don’t worry, I was assured by more than one person here even that I was full of shit to criticize Kennedy

But by all means let’s let the liars speak freely. 😡😡😡😡
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Ocelot II

(126,922 posts)
1. It will have to be rebuilt from the ground up someday.
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:48 PM
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In the meantime, most of us will have only our state's health departments, many of which are very good, but are able to control and keep records relating only to things that happen within the state. We're kind of fucked on a national level, which is a terrible situation especially given that only months ago the CDC was one of the best, most competent health research organizations in the world.

I hope Bobby Brainworm fries in Hell.

Eliot Rosewater

(33,833 posts)
8. States aren't gonna help us, RFK Junior a.k.a. piece of shit can
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:02 PM
Friday

Make it so Medicare and insurance companies do not have to pay for vaccines and many other medical treatments.

He can prevent vaccines from going forward, he can more or less get rid of vaccines and he will.

He believes preventive healthcare and cancer screening is “woke“ so there will be no more of that unless you pay for it out-of-pocket which will be prohibitive for most people.

B.See

(6,340 posts)
2. R-Fk-Junior and psychopaths like him
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:51 PM
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put batshit crazy, science denying rhetoric and Reich winged ideology ahead of the health, safety, and LIVES OF PEOPLE.

They're A CULT.. of willful IGNORANCE, malice and death.

lostincalifornia

(4,338 posts)
3. Perhaps a private enterprise can be formed from all those scientists who have been removed from the CDC
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 05:53 PM
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to be incorporated into this new entity which will provide recommendations based on SCIENCE.

One group has already done this, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), by releasing it own independent immunization schedule, after kennedy made changes to the federal vaccine recommendations without scientific review.

That is what must be done. That pompous ass rfk jr can threaten all he wants, but they have their free speech just like anyone else, except theirs is based on scientific evidence, not pseudo science.



womanofthehills

(10,324 posts)
9. The CDC still has around 12,000 workers
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 10:40 PM
Friday

Most have a background in medicine or science. I didn’t realize they had such a large staff.

Alice Kramden

(2,763 posts)
7. Daskalakis: "I gave up my job as a red flag. "
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:25 PM
Friday

Excellent article - thanks for posting

A country heading into respiratory virus season, with schools reopening and daycares filling up, now faces both a new COVID wave and an agency in free fall.
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