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Eggs sure have gotten cheap! Oh they haven't?...well I'm sure Trump is doing EVERYTHING he can
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The USDA fired staffers working on bird flu. Now it's trying to reverse course
THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T A FUCKING CORPORATION AND SHOULDN'T BE RUN LIKE ONE.
Corporations do this to maximize profit. The US government is supposed to maximize helping citizens, it's what we pay for. The U.S. government is essentially a non profit.
For the US government, profit-motivated strategy is inappropriate.
We need the people they fired to be doing their job even when there isn't a pandemic. Having these people in staff is exact the same as hiring firefighters and cops, they're for responding to emergencies. And just like firefighters and cops, they do investigation, training and research when there isn't an emergency.
These people should not have been culled. Doing so when there isn't an imminent pandemic is stupid enough, but sacking them when there's already several outbreaks in progress is monumentally stupid. IIts like fireing the firefighters as they're driving to the fire. It's the exact kind of move I'd expect a short term thinker who has never dealt with personal consequences to act. It's an incredibly idiotic thing to do.
thank you! you get it.
people with decades of experience responding to communicable illnesses have been getting fired without cause or driven out of government just for some conservative publicity stunt precisely when they're needed (which it turns out, is actually all the time). even when no diseases are breaking out, they are developing plans and strategies for the next event. we need these experts.
I'll take "Things Ignorant People Say" for $500, Alex.
You responded to one word of the parent comment, and ignored the rest.
What corporation? I thought we were talking about a government agency tasked with the safeguarding of American food & agriculture. You don’t randomly “cull” departments that are in the middle of handling a national emergency.
Corporate guru over here
lol "we meant to do that"
even corporations wouldn't be stupid enough to fire people working on H5 response at the onset of a possible pandemic. If you end up removing people in critical roles then you delay response to a situation where weeks matter.
This, but the opposite. This whole thread has been you saying stupid things for your own emotional needs. You know, if this is just your defense mechanisms speaking, you'd get just as much out of it if after composing your comment, you clicked "Cancel".
Most? By what metric, hopefully not your wishful thinking and only focusing on articles that support your views. I would really like to see your science sources on this. And by sources I don't mean science articles that discuss H5 is not a near term risk (for every such article I can easily find you one that says it is), I mean some sort of literature review that shows MOST experts in the field are not worried. I am educated enough to know the dynamics is complex and the situation is at best unpredictable. Common sense worth a grain of sand requires we should be on alert mode until the animal endemic is over, not firing possibly essential workers because it looks cool when you do it wielding a chainsaw. If we are just gonna trade articles though I will start:
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/bird-flu-is-raising-red-flags-among-health-officials
"On January 6, the Louisiana Department of Health announced that a patient hospitalized last month for H5N1 avian influenza had died, becoming the first U.S. death from the virus. To make matters worse, samples taken from the individual suggest that the virus mutated within the patient after infection—meaning it had begun to adapt to infect humans better—raising new questions about H5N1’s pandemic potential. "
My gut feeling is that you are a troll but nevertheless your questions help inform other people who are on the fence about such stuff so thanks.
Do you think that they are being fired based on merit?
Who do you think brings the relevant experience and science into practice for pandemic response? People who were fired.