… content from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which includes data from a national survey, has disappeared; so have parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index. The CDC’s landing page for HIV data has also vanished. And the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis, is down.

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    First the Jan. 6 Database, now CDC content… They’re just going to try to erase any and all information they don’t like, hmm? I hope every agency has everything quadruple backed-up at the very least.

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    I am so looking forward to another week on Lemmy full of assholes telling me I should care more about Palestinians than my own child because queer people are safe in America and Palestinians are dying.

    (And any queer Palestinians in America? Fuck them, I guess. That’s the message I seem to be getting.)

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      WhY dO yOu SuPpOrT GeNoCiDe JoE?

      But for real, I could also ask why Lemmy mods/communities perpetuate this same BS. There’s an argument to neutrality but the overall narrative is getting pretty wild.

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        It was bad enough before the election, but this is just denial of what is actually happening in order to justify what they’ve said before.

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          It’s a willing disbelief to justify apathy? I can’t find any other logically valid explanations…

          It’s like enough folks have their head in the sand for their own sake to allow this to happen…

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      Squid, as a highly stressed out banana who also needs to touch grass, I implore you, seriously, please touch grass.

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        As someone who has been told every single fucking day to put other people’s needs above his daughters and also told every single fucking day that there is no need to worry about a queer genocide in the U.S., I implore you, seriously, to block me if you don’t want me talking about how both claims are fucking ludicrous and how pissed off I am to have that thrown at me every fucking day.

        So I am sorry you don’t want people to talk about an impending genocide, but I really do not give a flying fuck about it stressing you out to hear about it any more than I would give a fuck about it stressing you out to hear about the Holocaust in the 1940s.

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      It’s deeper than that. Trump literally thinks disease, illness, deformities are “weakness” and that they must be eradicated.

      Like Hitler, he doesn’t understand genetics and that two healthy people can produce offspring that has issues. Genetics isn’t perfect, “mistakes” get made.

      Further, two healthy intelligent adults does not automatically beget a child who is a healthy and intelligent. Nor do two unintelligent parents automatically beget unintelligent children. (Ask me how I know the second one)

      He will kill millions to “prove it.”

      “They were weak, if they weren’t they wouldn’t have died when we put them in conditions that would kill anybody” or some dumb shit is probably his thought process.

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        Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing. I remember he secretly got the Covid vaccine while denying it even existed

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      They’re really trying to kill off all the poor queer people huh

      I can almost guarantee you he thinks they all have AIDS, not even just HIV, just by virtue of being queer.

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    Trump was definitely the kind of kid that hid his trash behind his built into the wall shelves, and never got busted for it… He seriously thinks if we simply don’t know about a virus, we won’t be concerned with it, forget all the people dying, forget the over flowing ER’s, there is no new virus threatening the world… Dudes seriously worse than just dim. He should have learned his lesson and made sure disease control was in tip top shape… After all, wet markets still exist around the globe… Covid part 2 ain’t some pie in the sky impossibility. He dumb. People might die because of it.

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      To clarify, the Wuhan lab leak got into the wet market, but the wet market is where it took hold. This could happen again, lab leaks happen all the time, just this one got into a wet market.

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          It hasn’t been confirmed. The closest it’s gotten to being confirmed is the CIA saying it is a “low confidence” hypothesis, and only that after Trump took office.

          But conspiracy mongers will monger.

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    What was once up can return, and I don’t think a blackout of information over 4 years will matter that much long term (people have other sources for correct HIV prevention information, for instance).

    It is more concerning how unequipped we’ll be during the next pandemic since our agencies are cutting ties to international allies to help track illnesses. If it’s like the first time, it’ll suck although at least it’ll kill off his followers in higher numbers than innocent people.

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      it’ll suck although at least it’ll kill off his followers in higher numbers than innocent people.

      Like COVID?