This is scary. Why would someone want to hide that specific information ahead of time? Also, that someone is a puppet of an enemy state and couldn't have mishandled the previous infectious disease outbreak any worse. And last time, he disbanded the federal epidemic team before COVID came out. This is like evil-villain level foreshadowing.

If you care about your health or your family's health, yall need to move to a blue state quickly and hunker down for the next 4 years. This madman is going to do everything he can to weaken and separate the union. We need to switch from progress to containment mode.

Ruined by Republican voters who would rather make sure the immigrants are punished than survive the next bird flu.

By racists who feel the need to push down their fellow man than save them.

I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, "See? Government can't do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies." Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.

They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.

At one point Trump literally suggested reducing reported Covid cases by just not testing. They genuinely think the important thing is not to talk about it.

Trumps first term was stymied by an extremely inconvenient global pandemic.

He doesn't want to be undermined by subject matter experts again

They're taking things out from Hungary's (and Russia's) playbook. Your voters cannot fault you for something they don't know about.

Times like this are why I'm glad I live in a blue state. Not that it will ship the problems, it even slow then down. The Orange Idiot is going after Chicago right now like he's got a vendetta, and diseases don't care about imaginary lines.

I've been watching this really interesting older docuseries about an illegal alien who was adopted by a Kansan farmer. It really highlights the lengths the rich will go to when they feel justified in their own actions. Makes me wonder if this new TB strain isn't just the newest bio-weapon introduced by the state's leading plutocrat.

That's the logic he applied to covid testing.

Special Health Exercise

They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.

I would presume they can use their personal accounts. Or set up an alternate org outside of US jurisdiction.

I was going to call bullshit but damn if you aren't right.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

Lolwut?

I deleted my Facebook some years ago, and so don't have the means to double check this. Is this for real?

Linux is all too woke for Fascistbook with the penguins, furries, and long socks.

There won't be lock downs in the US this time.

Pox Americana

For starters I'd recommend FreshRSS to selfhost your RSS feeds https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

And for the creation of one I'd recommend looking into RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file

RSS-Bridge lets you make RSS feeds for sites that don't have one.

You probably already know this but for clarity it sounds like the flu shot won't protect you from h5n1

This is true, but it's worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.

With the government staying silent, it's going to be more difficult to get a sense of what's happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn't necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.