It’s wild that this is the first article I’ve seen about this on Lemmy. My coworkers and students first started getting affected by this weeks ago.
No big surprise to the politics behind it, though. The only thing I’m not sure of is if the cuts were the decision of the little DOGE boys, the brainworm RFK, or did it come from the dumbass president himself?
MAHA is beginning to look like the start of an evil villainous laugh
My only hope is that more and more Americans realize there is value in funding federal programs and keeping them independent.
In addition to cyclospora, surveillance of campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia was cut. FoodNet now only regularly monitors two diseases: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.
A list of CDC talking points seen by NBC News last summer clearly blamed funding for the program’s drastic cutback.
“Funding has not kept pace with the resources required to maintain the continuation of FoodNet surveillance for all eight pathogens,” the talking point read.
No shit?
a lot of shit actually it seems
Some shit.
An assload of shit
Shitstorm
Diarrhude
Hey, if you say “buttload,” it would be an actual measurement.
A buttload is an historical unit of measurement equivalent to 126 US gallons (about 477 liters).
When I think of assload I think of a small donkey with two full wicker pannier packs full of hay. The amount being equal to the amount of hay.
Source?
Here you go (interesting read overall). The actual measure is “butt”
Actually, quite a lot
They really are trying to kill people. Whats the point of being a country if they don’t care about the citizens of the country?
It’s the billionaires implementing their long-awaited eugenics program. And it’s working.
But hey, the emails amirite?
It’s been coming out of his mouth for decades
Who can balme them, I wouldn’t want to watch the poppy pants parasite either, shit’s gross
Yay! We stopped all the cases!
