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

[Catherine Walther]

Yes May God bless us all, especially our American relatives and friends.
And may we all have the strength and courage to stand up against this
tyrant. Catherine.

When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli


On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM Dean Riley <riley234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for this Catherine. This is an amazing & frightening summary!
> And there doesn’t seem to be any end of it in sight. In fact it’s only
> likely to get much worse.
>
> May God be with us… 🙏🏼
>
> Dean.
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> On Feb 6, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <
> sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:
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> From: Catherine Walther via groups.io <catherine.walther=
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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:
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Approval Restrictions: All public materials, including regulations, press
> releases, and social media posts, now require approval from a political
> appointee before dissemination.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Global Gag Rule Reinstated: The administration reinstated restrictions on
> funding for international reproductive health services.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> We can only hope for some luck, some bravery, some awakening.
>
>
>
> Some regret.
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