Who could forget such CDC hits as retracting that COVID is airborne or publishing indoor ventilation guidance the day after the end of the public health emergency order so that they would serve no purpose at all. Anyway, AIDS activist would like a word.
Katelyn JetelinaFor the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.
yeah, this is part of a long & horrific cycle. understanding that the state always selectively abandons & even outright targets marginalized groups with systemic violence & social murder has helped me navigate the increasing horrors. we have won before & we can win again.
Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression. What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
If only the head of the CDC didn't feel it entirely acceptable that some group of vulnerable people would be harmed for the sake of ideology 3 years ago it would be a lot harder to explain how we crossed a Rubicon now
James BallThis does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation. I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS bsky.app/profile/jenk...
JenkaJust thinking about all this stuff i wrote in 2022 and how angry I was. And how its unsustainable to be that angry all the time so I just kind of became numb to everything but how I still believe every single word I wrote, and how right I was.
Not to flog a dead institution but... Captured by corporate interests, embraced eugenics (“only disabled/old/vulnerable people are going to die, don’t worry”) & ran full tilt into offloading collective responsibility onto individuals. And now we are, predictably, here 😐 This is going to kill people.
Who could have predicted. bsky.app/profile/volt...
David RobertsYou think it won't, couldn't possibly, happen this time, in the face of all *this*, but I promise you: it will. Unless there is an enormous, sustained, absolutely dogged push from below -- starting now, honestly -- that is what will happen. That's how the machine works, that's how it's built.
The vulnerable will fall by the wayside. bsky.app/profile/eliz...
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhDThe media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.