The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations. The move is a sign that the public health agency may be falling in line under RFK Jr.

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Select-Cat-5721@reddit

We are freakin’ doomed with how things are going. It is as if they hate our country and want to see it collapse. Now why would they be investing in that?

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terrierhead@reddit

Everyone at the CDC who goes along with this ought to be ashamed. Bunch of clowns and cowards.

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UtopianPablo@reddit

I kind of agree but if you stand up you get fired and are probably targeted by a bunch of maga fucks.

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terrierhead@reddit

If you work for the CDC, you’re on MAGA’s list anyway. Public health is a mission and a calling. People who go along to get along expose us all to harm. They lost the mission.

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I agree but we’re asking for huge personal sacrifices from people who took a job when science mattered, they didn’t sign up to be rebel soldiers against the empire. I’m glad I’m not in their position.

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LetsJustDoItTonight@reddit

I don't envy their position, but they also have a responsibility to the public.

That being said, this seems to be something the higher ups (aka the Trump loyalists) tried to bury, rather than something the researchers did.

And it was probably one of those researchers who leaked this.

So, I wouldn't jump to conclusions that the public health workers are getting out of the way just yet.

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Ddog78@reddit

I don't envy their position, but they also have a responsibility to the public.

Why? The public voted for this.

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nail_nail@reddit

As if they wouldn't be fired already to be replaced with Maga cronies. At least you have a clean conscience.

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britskates@reddit

Good, I’d gladly be fired for standing up for what I know is right in the face of tyranny. Fuck these magats

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2A_in_CA@reddit

Anyone paying attention to what is going on with measles does not need the CDC to dispense this information.

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stevetheborg@reddit

just tell them that they are going to die .. and they cant go to school.. oh wait.. thats what they want

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coMN1972@reddit

What I get from all of this is that We, The People, are on our own from here on out. We used to look to the Gov’t for information like this. Now we have to look elsewhere, like foreign health ministries, perhaps. The current government is only interested in serving itself. The people don’t matter anymore.

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Mick_Farrar@reddit

Killing your own children for a fascist belief - wow

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The_Vee_@reddit

They will all be falling in line. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/top-vaccine-official-forced-out-of-fda/ar-AA1BSzq7

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melympia@reddit

Kennedy believes that the decision for or against getting vaccinated is a deeply personal one. Thus, he withholds facts from the public that would allow them to make an informed choice.

Am I missing something?

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Cinder_bloc@reddit

This is why you don’t hire, or appoint, morons into important positions.

You still see MAGAts whinging about how horrible Fauci is/was, when he was literally doing his job in an appropriate way. Was he perfect? Fuck no. Who is? Everyone makes mistakes.

Blatantly withholding information from the public, simply because his idiot ass doesn’t agree with it, should be criminal

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melympia@reddit

Tell that to the powers that be. They don't care, because too many people support this antivaxx idiocy.

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no_infringe_me@reddit

Yeah, when he says personal, he means himself

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satsugene@reddit

Is anyone surprised?

CDC COVID messaging was largely brought into alignment with administration goals, often in deliberately misleading ways. For now 3 administrations from both major parties.

Why anyone would expect any health messaging to out of CDC would be pure science or at least policy insulated from administration political goals (in health policy or in service of other goals, particularly economic) makes no sense to me.

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OUATpeace49@reddit

Trump 1 did so much damage that was still being repaired and now he and his idiots are back. We are screwed.

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carminemangione@reddit

We need to be able to charge politicians with negligent homicide. Of course, to do that we need to get back to a society where we are actually fact based...

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

― Isaac Asimov

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Rejecting vaccines is not rebellion. It's regression.

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