This is scary. Why would someone want to hide that specific information ahead of time? Also, that someone is a puppet of an enemy state and couldn't have mishandled the previous infectious disease outbreak any worse. And last time, he disbanded the federal epidemic team before COVID came out. This is like evil-villain level foreshadowing.

If you care about your health or your family's health, yall need to move to a blue state quickly and hunker down for the next 4 years. This madman is going to do everything he can to weaken and separate the union. We need to switch from progress to containment mode.

The whole "the cruelty is the point" thing is so foreign to me. It isn't difficult to cause hardship with clean intentions. To cause intentional pain broadly and blindly just doesn't make sense to me. And I can "devils advocate" and try to empathize fairly well (hard to know if that's true without acting like a creeper).

Global dominance?

That's the logic he applied to covid testing.

I was going to call bullshit but damn if you aren't right.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked

Lolwut?

I deleted my Facebook some years ago, and so don't have the means to double check this. Is this for real?

Linux is all too woke for Fascistbook with the penguins, furries, and long socks.

They want to outsource and privatize everything, lining their friends pockets and getting kickbacks. “Small government”, huge industrial complex contractor.

I would presume they can use their personal accounts. Or set up an alternate org outside of US jurisdiction.

The word of a pandemic would spread regardless of CDC. When Covid started there where rumors in Europe (Jan 2020) of people dropping dead on the streets in China. By February there where videos of tourists in China going around with masks because everybody else was. A word spreads faster than a virus.

Special Health Exercise

There won't be lock downs in the US this time.

Pox Americana

For starters I'd recommend FreshRSS to selfhost your RSS feeds https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

And for the creation of one I'd recommend looking into RSS-Bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file

RSS-Bridge lets you make RSS feeds for sites that don't have one.

Trumps first term was stymied by an extremely inconvenient global pandemic.

He doesn't want to be undermined by subject matter experts again

At one point Trump literally suggested reducing reported Covid cases by just not testing. They genuinely think the important thing is not to talk about it.

I think it is part of making government agencies ineffective to prove their ideology that these agencies should be abolished and replaced with private companies (or not at all). That way, they can say come election time, "See? Government can't do these things well. We should eliminate these agencies." Many people will forget they are also the reason the agencies are shitty.

They have tried this with underfunding them in the past mostly. This is a much more direct approach.

They're taking things out from Hungary's (and Russia's) playbook. Your voters cannot fault you for something they don't know about.

This is true, but it's worth recognizing that a lot of the states, nonprofits, and local agencies rely on government studies and reports to make their own assessments.

With the government staying silent, it's going to be more difficult to get a sense of what's happening and what to do as a result. Not impossible, but the infrastructure isn't necessarily in place, because nobody prepared for the federal government to be this adversarial to public health and safety.

I'm sure someone can lawyer up a way to skirt the crybaby's command. Say they didn't 'publish a communication' but rather that 'data was made available through existing public and partnership channels'.

California would likely be all over it. As much as I don't care for Newsom, he really doesn't like Trump, so I call that a win.