The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.
I really try not to be alarmist, and there are many five-alarm fires at the moment, but the collapse of CDC (and other health related infrastructure) scares the absolute shit out of me and it should scare everyone else too.
This had already been on my mind earlier today. Like, how confident will I be in a few months that the sliced turkey I buy is not contaminated?
Based on what they’ve already done:
-Americans will die directly -Americans will die earlier than they otherwise would have -Americans will be immiserated or disabled from indirect effects
MILLIONS of us. Dozens of millions easily
People seem to forget a) how insanely lucky we got with the COVID vaccine and b) how so far from "worst case" COVID was/is. :/
And H5N1 is still out there, too...
You should be an alarmist. If there is a literal real fire in a real building, you wouldn’t be doing the mental gymnastics you are doing now to try & not sound an alarm … (sending with love)
