I like just found out it’s from a neurological condition. I had no idea, I honestly thought he just talked like that.

Yeah lol that’s the one.

I mean, it’s really not the worst possible belief system one can have. He’s essentially just laser focused on improving Americans’ diet and lifestyles to become healthier. Which…isn’t a bad thing. And he’s right that things like diet and exercise will keep the body strong to fight disease.

But he leans on this understanding of the immune system where it is literally the only thing that decides whether one gets sick or not. To the point where germs don’t matter - which is where the logic behind that video going around where he’s wants the NIH to stop studying infectious diseases comes from. Why study infectious diseases if they don’t actually make you sick? It really all depends on the strength of your immune system. And therefore, why put resources towards public health if all we really need is stronger immune systems?

And so then we get to what I think is the most dangerous part of this, which is that he’s essentially individualized disease. When you get sick, it’s your own fault. Like we saw during Covid, it’s the fault of underlying disease, obesity, age. If someone is young and healthy, then we blame diet, processed foods. Maybe they used drugs or used to, or they’re a former smoker. Anything but Covid itself. And so if you die, or get disabled, hey it’s a tragedy, but you brought it upon yourself because of some personal failing or inherent imperfection. Eugenicist thinking.

And private healthcare loves this since it gives them any number of reasons to deny coverage. Kennedy went on an on today about “putting people in charge of their own healthcare.” I totally agree with lifestyle changes so that people can be healthier, but first of all we haven’t created a world amenable to healthy lifestyles, and second of all we don’t need to flirt with germ theory denial to live healthier.

Sorry went off a little there lol

It was at literally the very end as all the senators were running out of the room to try and get to a confirmation vote and the chairman was trying to get whoever it was who asked to yield since her time was up. So it was sort of glossed over, and of course Kennedy’s gonna say yes, he’s not gonna go to his confirmation hearing and say he doesn’t believe in germs. It wasn’t dug into at all, and the senator said well I have more that I’d like to submit to the record, specifically she was talking about shit from his book where he lays out his sort of softcore terrain theory where he doesn’t necessarily reject germ theory but laments that it’s the prevailing view in medicine and lays out his beliefs that germs aren’t actually that big a deal.

Sorry that’s what I meant. Too much that I didn’t want to type. I wish they had dug into it more but instead it was some throwaway question at the very end that why the hell would Kennedy answer anything but yes.

Dude can’t even talk

I can’t see miasmas either

Check and mate

I don’t really know how much they care at this point about the substance of trump, he is just a vessel for the desires of the everychud.

Actually they do care when it gives them a chance to own the libs by saying trump created the vaccines.

The goal is to “drain the swamp” of all federal workers to both reduce the size and capacity of the federal govt, to of course be replaced by the private sector, and purge the federal government of non-loyalists so that he can replace them with loyalists.

By doing all he’s done this past week - forced return to office, freezing funds and communication, freezing travel and just generally making it impossible for people to do their work, he gives them a reason to want to leave. He then sweetens the deal by offering buyouts to those who leave. So either stay at your job and deal with roadblocks and a toxic work environment, or take a buyout and get pay and benefits through September.

Edit: btw he did this to the USDA in his first term. Decided to move parts of the agency out to Kansas City. Many with lives and families in DC didn’t want to go. So now those offices of the USDA have been gutted. No buyout, but a similar goal, find a way to force federal workers to leave.

https://www.c-span.org/program/campaign-2020/south-carolina-republican-party-silver-elephant-gala/530539 at 40:06

Except it’s just gonna be us humiliating ourselves

Ah thank you, I’ll take a look at these

Do you have info on that kid with the potential h2h transmission mutation?

Oh yeah she’s talking about Elbert county. It seems there are other flocks that were hit but Elbert County was the big one. I didn’t realize how close it was to Atlanta.

The disease seems to be spreading pretty heavily in the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways rn. Flocks are getting hit hard up the east coast and in the Midwest, esp Indiana and Ohio.

Do you have any info on this? There’s been a big outbreak in Elbert County, a portion of which is under quarantine, and they’ve upped biosecurity measures across the state. Maybe that’s what they meant? Idk of any big outbreak near Atlanta.

I’ve also seen attempts to blame supposed gain of function testing in Athens GA for the current outbreak. I haven’t looked into that at all but my first thought is it’s bullshit since it’s Peter McCullough and I’m pretty sure the timelines don’t line up. I think we’re probably just gonna be having the same arguments we had during Covid.

Michael Osterholm says it possible clouds of dust are getting kicked up that have bird feces in them, and it’s possible it’s spreading that way. I sort of don’t think there’s human transmission yet. Maybe a very low level but from what I’ve seen key mutations generally considered necessary for human transmission haven’t been found in any strains yet (although I did see a journal article today saying they found slight binding to human receptors so…). In any case only 3 cases have been unknown exposure so far.

The pause on communications has carve outs for things deemed “critical for public health.” Seems to be on a case by case basis, you need to have it approved by a hhs executive (or someone like that). The Morbitity and Mortality Weekly Report didn’t come out for the first time in 60 years, but the cdc has been able to update their bird flu tracker.

So this is only until Feb 1 atm and makes exceptions for communications “critical for health.” Which seems to mean things requiring immediate action - such as the FDA releasing info about an allergic reaction in a certain medication today. Regular reports are paused though.

Of course this was all explained in a later memo, while in the original guidance the pause was of an indeterminate length. Definitely has had a chilling effect, a lot of public health people are up in arms about this.

I don’t think roe v wade was purely vindictive though. Look at how up in arms the bourgeoisie seems to be getting about “fertility rates” and the like. There was a capitalist logic there, whereas substantially increasing deportations doesn’t seem to have any real capitalist logic. Trump bent to the farmers in his first admin wrt NAFTA, he’ll likely do the same again

Are you me? No sleep at all the night before, only 4 hours of sleep (if you can call it sleep) last night. On top of persistent stomach issues and constipation. Now at work. I empathize comrade, going through the same thing. I don’t have any advice, but just know I’m right here with you.

Leaving the who as bird flu looms on the horizon…

Damn thanks for this answer. Yeah I really really want to go with Xiaomi, but that was my worry, that it’d be difficult to get working in the US. I’ve been researching people who have been able to use it in the us, but being that I sort of just need a phone at this point since this one is pretty much dead, I don’t really have the time to figure all that out.

Unfortunately I think I am in the end going to stay with Apple. One of my main issues with the 15 was that I found the screen very difficult to look at, even with low brightness. After poking around online it seems there are other people who have this issue, and it seems to have something to do with an OLED screen vs the lcd screen I have now. Apple does still have phones with an lcd screen (the se) so I think I’m just going to do with that.

However oneplus is also recommended for people with issues with OLED so I think right now I’m just going to stay in the Apple ecosystem, and then just try to be proactive about keeping my tech updated next time so I’m not trying to replace my phone when it’s pretty much broken, and probably go with oneplus. I’d prefer a Chinese phone anyway. Staying with Apple rn is just easier for my situation though.

Another two years of anti-Trump leftism followed by two years of browbeating the real leftists into voting for the “most left-wing political program in US history” followed by 4 years of propping up an unpopular conservative dem followed by 4 years of Don Jr.