Joshua ScharfMay 24, 2025
Ars Technica
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say
Under Trump, the CDC's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program was cut.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
May 23, 2025 at 3:55pmArsBot 🤖
Show thread宮城巴惠 May 23, 2025
@arstechnica who did not see this coming? Anything for the corporate elite to save a buck and put people and children's lives at risk...
Show threadFediThing May 23, 2025

@arstechnica

Is there any rational ideology that is okay with children being poisoned?

Why did Republican voters vote for this? They were warned, they knew, why did they ask for this?

Seriously don't understand what goes in their heads that they want this to happen?

Show threadoscarfalconMay 23, 2025

@FediThing @arstechnica

It's not rational but it is planned: to make future dumb-people so that they become gop voters.

Show threadbobocubedMay 23, 2025

@oscarfalcon @FediThing @arstechnica

Accurate.

Show threadMark Wyner Won’t Comply May 23, 2025

@oscarfalcon

Well. That’s the whole point of controlling education and banning books. If people are ignorant, they’ll do what you tell them.

Unfortunately, even with plenty of books and learning opportunities all around us, we’re already there. America is a sea of ridiculously stupid people. It sounds harsh to say, but the state of things proves it beyond any reasonable doubt.

@FediThing @arstechnica

Show threadmk30May 23, 2025

@FediThing @arstechnica @deepmud in this case, children are just sacrifices for the greater goal of destroying the federal government.

Also, you often see among right wingers a refusal to accept that a given government program does what it says it does. Like, a lot of them think "DEI" is "quotas", even when it's not. So it's possible they think that this program is "secretly" something else.

Anyway, probably the reality is that they are taking apart any aspect of the government that they can, and this was one of them. The justification doesn't matter if they can exercise raw power.

Show threadclewMay 24, 2025

What I think is in too many heads is that clean pure people don’t get sick, or poisoned. Here they just have the causation wrong, having grown up in a world in which most people can be clean and healthy.

But then, way too often and not very hidden, there are beliefs about what kind of people are dirty.

@FediThing

Show threadCraig McgeeMay 23, 2025
@arstechnica hidious.
Show threadVictor QueredaMay 23, 2025
@arstechnica why CDC and not FDA was in charge of controlling lead presence in food? Not trying to defend anybody from cutting programs.
Show threadSamhain NightMay 23, 2025
@vquereda @arstechnica The CDC was in charge of lead in everything, including gas, pewter, paint and food.
Show threadMark Wyner Won’t Comply May 23, 2025

@arstechnica and they just gutted healthcare and food stamps. About all fits together nicely as a well-designed plan to kill as many people as possible.

They think they’re immune because they’re wealthy. But at some point there will be no one left to work for them. We’ll all be dead. So…🤷🏻‍♂️

Show threadArena Cops 🇺🇦✌May 23, 2025

@arstechnica Trump had been given 78 psychopathic, empathy-free years to refine the Art of Reckless Racketeering.

Al Capone had 30 years less!

Ain't that kind of unfair, too?

Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤May 23, 2025
@arstechnica
So, all of those apple sauce packages contain lead?
Show thread🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑May 24, 2025
@arstechnica
It's not that capitalism "wants" to harm or kill us, in the sense that there is any explicit objective or intent in the system. It's that capitalism is indifferent to our existence except as consumers, and doesn't want to be held responsible if, through negligence, they harm or kill us. Market forces compel the negligence, making it seem that capitalism is effectively trying to harm or kill us.
On the other hand, the purpose of a system is what it does.
Show threada fading echoMay 24, 2025
@arstechnica seems sub-optimal.
Show threadKaren E. Lund 💙💛May 26, 2025

@arstechnica The "no sugar added" on the labels is an extra nice touch.

We don't add sugar to our children's food; but we're OK with lead.