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A ‘zombified’ CDC: sociopath RFK Jr is thoroughly hollowing out the former ‘undisputed global leader in public health’. {NYT 26 September}
This New York Times article constitutes essential reading. Even the lavatories within CDC headquarters, it is reported, stand neglected.
Every Trump voter throughout the country beareth some measure of indirect responsibility — direct responsibility, indeed, should we speak of the most hardened anti-vaxxers — for the damage presently being wrought upon American public health. I remain in perpetual disbelief that this is what the American electorate desired: for all of us to be rendered sicker and poorer. Just continually astonished at the sheer wilful stupidity, the anti-intellectualism, and the quasi-medieval mindset that altogether too many #Muricans have adopted towards medical science. Rather than emerging from the pandemic as a society more attuned to matters of hygiene — one that would value handwashing and respect for personal space — we apparently learnt the wrong lessons entirely. I shudder to contemplate how many further lives might have been lost, had the CDC found itself in its present state of dereliction at that hour. Once again, this bloody rΓ©gime is deliberately making the nation sicker and poorer, whilst more than half the populace either cheereth it onward or averteth its gaze entirely.
Seriously, doth this not alarm people — that American public-health capacity should be degraded unto depths once scarcely imaginable for the United States? It shall prove exceedingly difficult, perchance outright impossible, ever to rebuild that which hath been so needlessly destroyed. What, in the name of all that is sacred, aileth ‘y’all’? Is this genuinely the life ‘y’all’ wish to lead, and constantly demand that the rest of us endure alongside you? Well, I demand sanity! I demand basic humanity and dignity, and I demand that fundamental healthcare standards be upheld within a nation — in actuality, an empire — which we are perpetually assured is the freest and most powerful upon this earth, even as that very assertion hath grown patently untenable.
Donald Trump hath not rendered America ‘great again’; rather, he hath transformed it into a veritable cesspit, aided and abetted by too many individuals within our own lives — almost none of whom show any genuine repentance, nor shall they ever, however dire circumstances may ultimately become. COVID, January 6, the felony convictions, his putrid record since returning to office, the rupture with longstanding allies: none of it hath yet produced the national reckoning that ought, by rights, to have occurred by now. Whether the November midterm elections shall alter this picture remaineth an open question, though I am not holding my breath expecting anything favourable to come of it. Always assume the worst, folks.
The past decade hath been one of near-universal degradation; I scarce wish even to imagine what the coming ten years shall bring, governed and populated as we are by malevolent and self-destructive fools. Yet, in truth, I need not contemplate it at all. The America we once knew shall never return, and it is all downhill from here.
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