[Sundaycommunity] Fwd: [Ruah] what's happening in the US

[Bill Wright]

Wow.   Thks for this, Catherine.
Bill.

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On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

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> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 13:13
> Subject: [Ruah] what's happening in the US
> To: CNWE group <CNWE at googlegroups.com>, Ruah Group <Ruah at groups.io>,
> Taproot Group <taprootcan at googlegroups.com>
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> An American doctor friend wrote this:
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> A couple readers have specifically asked me not to bring up politics in my
> writing. They just want “uplifting” stuff to continue. I aim to keep that
> tone when I can, but the disemboweling of American public health
> institutions, formerly considered among the finest in the world despite
> imperfections, compels a reactionary tone. As a family doctor who cares
> about prevention and community health, it would be cowardly to look the
> other way, or even worse, to normalize the many blatant assertions of
> centralized power and agenda over distributed truth and expertise. A few
> examples from just the past week:
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> Communication Freeze: Federal health agencies, including the CDC, FDA, and
> NIH, were ordered to halt all external communications, including scientific
> reports, website updates, and health advisories. This included suspending
> the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and other public
> health updates. Public domain Vaccine Information Sheets we use everyday in
> primary care to counsel patients have vanished —instead we get a “Page
> you’re looking for was not found” error message. Some critical information
> about the H5N1 outbreak has simply been deleted.
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> Research and Meetings Canceled: Scientific meetings and grant review
> panels were abruptly canceled, delaying critical research on issues like
> the bird flu outbreak. NIH travel and training workshops were also
> suspended. Not traveling affects scientists’ ability to present their work.
> The NIH Clinical Center can no longer recruit patients into clinical trials
> because of cancelled meetings and silenced information on clinical trials.
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> Approval Restrictions: All public materials, including regulations, press
> releases, and social media posts, now require approval from a political
> appointee before dissemination.
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> Work with WHO Halted: Federal health agencies were directed to stop
> collaborations with the World Health Organization (WHO), following an
> executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the organization. Apropos to the
> moment, the WHO's international meeting on bird flu will lack CDC
> representatives, potentially limiting America's ability to access crucial
> global data on the virus's evolution and spread, which could hamper efforts
> to prevent human infections and develop treatments.
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> Hiring Freeze: A government-wide hiring freeze was imposed, with job ads
> rescinded and offers pulled at agencies like NIH.
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> In-Person Work Mandate: Federal health workers were required to return to
> in-person work, exacerbating workforce shortages.
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> Global Gag Rule Reinstated: The administration reinstated restrictions on
> funding for international reproductive health services.
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> RFK Junior for Secretary of HHS: It’s such a waste of time to even
> consider these sorts of nominees, chosen for their lack of qualifications
> plus agendas that are antithetical to the missions of the institutions they
> will mislead. But focusing on vaccines at least, Kennedy claimed to support
> vaccines during the confirmation hearings, contradicting his incredibly
> long and well-documented history of promoting vaccine misinformation,
> including debunked claims linking vaccines to autism. Senators highlighted
> his past statements and actions, such as his nonprofit selling anti-vaccine
> merchandise, the millions of dollars he personally makes from
> anti-vaccination organizations and lawsuits, all of which raise doubts
> about his sincerity to say the least.
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> Any one of these items is not OK. None of it is normal.
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> It’s not “disruption” in any kind of potentially positive, constructive
> way. It’s just destruction for the sole purpose of centralizing power in
> our information networks at the expense of truth, real time public health
> surveillance, and open communication.
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> It’s not going to all be OK… but you won’t know it’s not OK unless you
> keep reading the words of those with actual expertise, the decentralized
> network of scientifically informed truth that’s now being forced into a
> reluctant Resistance. This further calcifies the notion of politics in
> science, and further coalesces a tribe against public health, even as we
> try to defend it with evidence, data, and truth. Communication.
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> We can only hope for some luck, some bravery, some awakening.
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> Some regret.
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