CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
apnews.com
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    There’s not much more infuriating than anti-science Americans demonizing Fauci/The CDC/The WHO. It’s about as willfully ignorant as you can get…

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 days ago

      Just one more step to Pol Pots killing fields.

      Pretty soon all intelectual ‘libruls’ are going to be rounded up.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    351·
    2 days ago

    The dumbest thing about this is that Trump was in office when we needed these organizations the most. Oversaw a global health crisis while in office, and then basically ignored it and focused on getting re-elected.

    Edit: that’s pretty much the only reason he didn’t get elected in a landslide. I remember thinking in 2019 the economy was doing well, and everybody attributed that to Trump (even tho economic anything lags executive branch policy by a few years, unless you do something extreme), i thought for sure he’s getting re-elected again in a landslide, to my dismay. Seriously, if the dude ever had a thought about anybody that wasn’t himself, it was how handsome and bigly his brain is that someone said about him.

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      12·
      2 days ago

      What is odd about it? He has done similar.

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/

      It’s thus true that the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it, eliminating Ziemer’s position and reassigning others, although Bolton was the executive at the top of the National Security Council chain of command at the time.

      I remember hearing it on the news at the time.

      I am not finding it, but the USA hada vaccine mass production facility on standby for years that Trump scuttled.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
        101·
        2 days ago

        I didn’t say it was odd, I said it was dumb. He has a shining example from his first time in office of why we need this stuff, and he is ignoring it. He is a grade A moron if he thinks these things are unnecessary.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          61·
          2 days ago

          They are not only “unnecessary”, but counterproductive…

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          to the purpose of corporations making short term profits. “Workers” can be replaced, but won’t someone please think of the impact that telling people to stop paying for flights and food and such will have on ThE eCoNoMy!?!?

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      4·
      2 days ago

      That moment is when he was asked at a Covid press conference the softest of softball questions.

      Peter Alexander, White House correspondent at NBC News, asked the US president: “What do you say to Americans, who are watching you right now, who are scared?” Erupting in anger, Trump unleashed a tirade: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter. That’s what I say. I think it’s a very nasty question and I think it’s a very bad signal that you’re putting out to the American people.”

      He failed on the lesson of not letting a crisis go to waste. His only advantage is Americans, but particularly his base of supporters, don’t recognize these as failures or simply have a low retention for remembering anything.