<div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">If I may, it seems to me, Catherine and Dean, that Trump and Elon are targeting the compassionate. CDC, FDA, NIH, USAID, WHO these organizations are full of people who care about other people and have sought a life of helping other people and working for their broader communities to make better communities. They are not people of small hearts. These are people who do not vote for fear and anger. These are not Trump and Elon people. And so Trump and Elon attack them. Ok, yes, big organizations can have productivity improved. But that is not done through destruction. No.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I pray for the compassionate.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">c 416-708-6677<br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">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. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">May God be with us… 🙏🏼 </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dean. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-::-::-::-</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 6, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Catherine Walther via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Catherine Walther via <a href="http://groups.io" target="_blank">groups.io</a></strong> <span dir="auto"><catherine.walther=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@groups.io" target="_blank">gmail.com@groups.io</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 13:13<br>Subject: [Ruah] what's happening in the US<br>To: CNWE group <<a href="mailto:CNWE@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">CNWE@googlegroups.com</a>>, Ruah Group <<a href="mailto:Ruah@groups.io" target="_blank">Ruah@groups.io</a>>, Taproot Group <<a href="mailto:taprootcan@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">taprootcan@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">An American doctor friend wrote this:</div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small">
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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:</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">Approval
Restrictions: All public materials, including regulations, press
releases, and social media posts, now require approval from a
political appointee before dissemination.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">Hiring
Freeze: A government-wide hiring freeze was imposed, with job ads
rescinded and offers pulled at agencies like NIH.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">In-Person
Work Mandate: Federal health workers were required to return to
in-person work, exacerbating workforce shortages. </span></font></font>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">Global
Gag Rule Reinstated: The administration reinstated restrictions on
funding for international reproductive health services.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">Any
one of these items is not OK. None of it is normal. </span></font></font>
</p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.
</span></font></font>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">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.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">We
can only hope for some luck, some bravery, some awakening.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="line-height:115%;margin-bottom:0.35cm;background:transparent"><font face="Calibri, serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="en-US">Some regret.</span></font></font></p></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#141414" face="Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div>
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