(Donald Trump is the first Accelerationist president we have ever had and he will be the last. One way or the other. Accelerationists hope to drive the collapse of our government and society as quickly as possible so a new forms of government and society can rise in it's place. This is what the DOGE team did, this is what Russel Vought is doing now aided by the government shut down and this is what the Trump team of rabid free-marketeers are doing with the demolition of the economy in various ways. In preparation for the inevitable collapse, they are readying the country to accept military boots on the ground to defend the ultra-wealthy and complicit politicos from the wrath of the masses. Trump and his team literally hate this country and want to destroy it to make something worse in it's place that serves the interests of the ultra-rich and no one else.)
from Common Dreams
The Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs of federal public health officials that experts warn will leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.
As reported by The New York Times, the layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out on Friday night were deep and wide-ranging, and included employees and leaders “in offices addressing respiratory diseases, chronic diseases, injury prevention, and global health.”
The administration laid off the entire CDC office in Washington, DC, as well as the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication founded in 1930 that has been credited with the first reporting in medical literature on the disease that would come to be known as AIDS in 1981.
In addition to this, several dozen Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, commonly known as “disease detectives” who track outbreaks across the world, received their termination notices.
Dr. Jeremy Foust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, reported in a post on his personal Substack newsletter that CDC insiders are estimating that “between 1,100 and 1,300 employees are being cut” by the Trump administration.
Other public health experts reacted with horror to news of the terminations.
Dr. Catharine Young, a senior fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, described the layoffs as a “Friday night massacre” and warned of severe repercussions for both US citizens and the entire world...
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