02/19/2025
I’ve stayed out of the fray for the first month of Trump running things again; but, it has come time to address the science bashing and complete idiocracy going on.
I’m not sure if everyone is aware but the current, highly pathogenic, species of the avian influenza has decimated wild birds, pinnipeds (seals) and some other carnivores around the world and has now taken a strong foothold in the US.
The original strain/subspecies jumped from birds to cattle then to cats and then humans. It has then mutated, as viruses do rapidly, to a new strain which appears to be more virulent (easily spread and causing more illness) in cattle in California.
It has now been shown that numerous large animal veterinarians have tested positive and become ill with the avian flu. This means it is evolving to spread amongst humans more easily.
As of this week, Musk under the direction of Trump, cut large animal veterinarians who were monitoring this spread.
There have also been widespread cuts to the NIH and CDC, and USAID has essentially been abolished.
These organizations not only monitor diseases in other areas of the world coming here, monitor diseases here and do research on vaccines, prevention and treatment; but, also for every $1 put into them result in at least $2.50 back to our economy and save BILLIONS of dollars per year preventing economic losses from animal and human illnesses.
Information about diseases and research has been expunged from their websites.
Musk, mind you completely illegally, because only Congress is supposed to deal with budgets, has cut employees, indirect costs… these are food service, maintenance crews, janitors, and cancelled current federal grants based on whims, hidden and not so hidden agendas and just nonsense.
They have also cut public health programs, so that if you are in a clinical trial for say a new breast cancer drug, your trial is suspended and your treatment is over whether it is helping or not.
They have targeted words to shut down entire programs. A couple of these words are transition and diversity. So programs like special needs students TRANSITION program to enter society, gone.
Monitoring bioDIVERSITY in an area to prevent destroying an environment and allowing organizations to bypass any regulations, gone.
Finally, well, not really; because, this is on going and going to get far, far worse… RFK Jr, a full on Anti-vaccine advocate, believer that Flouride not only does not help prevent dental decay but causes cancer, and full on marketer of complete pseudoscience, is now the head of Health and Human Services and wants to shut down vaccine research, strip funding for cancer research, strip funding for domestic and foreign disease monitoring/research, and shut down any programs that don’t fit his warped agenda.
So, bottom line, none of this has been thought about logically or scientifically and is actively and for at least a generation going to do irreparable harm to everyone’s health and cost us billions in future expenses.
I could go on and on for hours to days with all the macro and minutia issues and how they are interrelated; and, if anyone wants more specifics I’m happy to expound.
If, however, anyone wants to spout baseless vitriol about how the richest man in the world and the would be king who are playing a elite, racist, non-scientific shell game with everyone’s health, humans and other animals, because we are all animals, please come after me.
I will give you an intellectual smack down as you’ve never had or will in your lives. Because, my only 2 emotions of late watching this all unfold are SLEEP and RAGE.
