Even with the drastically reduced disease surveillance and deliberate undercount, official CDC sources are already reporting the highest number of measles cases in more than 30 years, after it was officially declared “eliminated” in the US in 2000. Also, school is about to start.
The evisceration of CDC is happening at the same time global disease prevention funding like PEPFAR dries up after being line-item deleted by the WH and DOGE. If we can’t contain something we already eradicated and have no more global infrastructure, we have no defense left against another pandemic.
So who’s here to step in now that even a scientist handpicked by Trump had to step down because what was happening inside CDC was so reprehensible? Oh, a man with no scientific training whose foray into health policy was to suggest the free market regulate drug safety. fortune.com/2025/08/29/w...
The bloody hand of Eugenicist RFK, jr drips all over this. Survival of the best genes, and eradication of all the useless eaters and lives unworthy of life.
…who once “helped Peter Thiel develop manmade islands that would float outside US territory, allowing them to experiment with NEW FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.” I mean, that was not how I thought that sentence would end, but I guess I should have. Christ.
Ah, Washington County, constantly vying with Utah County (site of previous outbreaks) for the most extreme social politics in a state that has already been a de facto theocracy for its entire existence.