McNadoMDUsed 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.
Fishercat@mcnado Yeah, they are. Do you think there are academic labs that might be able to ramp up and fulfill some of those functions?
Paul SchoeI expect that to be the objective: outsource CDC work to commercial labs from people who pay Trump a kickback.
@paulschoe @mcnado Yeah.. that's why I said "academic labs." They're at least nominally nonprofits.
Captain ButtonOr just being able to brag that the official rate has dropped to zero...
@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.
Nicole ParsonsWhy is the Epstein Class 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
https://www.levernews.com/how-the-koch-network-hijacked-the-war-on-covid/
2. Tim Mellon funds RFK Jr because the Mellon/Scaife dynasty has a long history of being eugenicists & xenophobes.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/10/06/timothy-mellon-texas-border-wall/
https://www.jezebel.com/the-eugenicist-doctor-and-the-vast-fortune-behind-trump-1827322435
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https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/public-health-under-threat/project-2025
https://www.cspi.org/cspi-news/project-2025-and-public-health-whats-line
3. The Epstein Class funds foundations that promote opposition to public health for racist reasons & anti-democracy
Colcom & Tanton for example.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/eugenics-border-wars-population-control-the-tanton-network/
https://www.law.nyu.edu/news/Straus-Public-Lecture-Desmond-King
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/project-2025-offers-dystopian-view-of-america
