Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing.
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
@mcnado Who is going to be the first person to die of rabies?
No one should have to type that sentence in 2026, but here we are.
When I was one of hundreds affected by an outbreak of food-borne cryptosporidium, someone from the CDC called me. They were tracing everyone who had reported symptoms, and then contacting everyone else who might have eaten the food and urging them to get tested….impressive work!
I fear those days are long over.
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@Fishercat unlikely. There are some state labs, but they are in states that have been targeted by Trump’s funding cuts, and often at least partially rely on federal grants. It’s a clusterfuck.
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
This is why you don't let people who believe in the biblical rapture into power. They're a death cult, that's it.
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
@mcnado #GOP is a #deathcult
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
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I expect that to be the objective: outsource CDC work to commercial labs from people who pay Trump a kickback.
Or just being able to brag that the official rate has dropped to zero...
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
@mcnado I'm not so sure they are trying to kill you as much as they really don't care if you die.
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Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.
@mcnado If they don't want you dead (that's one less worker drone) they do at least want you to be too sick to rebel but not so sick you can't work. A serf class like the old times, malaise and dread keeping them in check.
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This is why you don't let people who believe in the biblical rapture into power. They're a death cult, that's it.
@mycotropic @mcnado "It's God's will" but applied to government strategy.
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@Fishercat unlikely. There are some state labs, but they are in states that have been targeted by Trump’s funding cuts, and often at least partially rely on federal grants. It’s a clusterfuck.
Why is the Epstein Class is so keen on killing people?
1. Koch Network funded covid disinformation & anitvaxxer Ideology because it wants to end democracy.
https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/crack-up-capitalism-interview-libertarianism-democracy
How The Koch Network Hijacked The War On COVID
As Omicron surges, a shadowy institute filled with fringe doctors appears to be part of big business’ two-year strategy to legitimize attacks on pandemic interventions.
The Lever (www.levernews.com)
2. Tim Mellon funds RFK Jr because the Mellon/Scaife dynasty has a long history of being eugenicists & xenophobes.
Timothy Mellon, a major Trump donor, is funding the Texas border wall
Timothy Mellon is the Wyoming-based grandson of banking tycoon Andrew Mellon. He is responsible for nearly 98% of the donations to Texas’ border wall fund.
The Texas Tribune (www.texastribune.org)
The Eugenicist Doctor and the Vast Fortune Behind Trump’s Immigration Regime
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Jezebel (www.jezebel.com)
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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