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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately, the emergency response team was fired in February.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago

Yeah. With this budget it's two guys waving a placard on the on-ramp.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago

But you can sleep soundly knowing that your taxes are $0.50 ~~less~~ more this year.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Ah they're just nostalgic for when they threw out the pandemic response plan Obama made prior to covid.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago

rfk jr only wants the worms to invade.

[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago

I honestly didn't think we had a CDC anymore

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 month ago

It’s just one guy with a bucket of horse paste and unpasteurized milk.

[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

The horse paste is dewormer right. So it has to work /s

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 27 points 1 month ago

Ironically, It does work in this case. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic, not just a dewormer. It kills screwworm larvae and is being authorized as a treatment for real here.

Just another "what are the writers going to think of next" element to throw into this crazy timeline.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Its gonna be a 180 on Ivermectin and they'll switch to bleach lol

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe we can convince them that COVID vaccination does the trick.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

probably slow the spread but it likely wont stop it in its tracks. since they dont have a sterile fly facility up and running yet.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Gunna git me a barrel of the stuf at tractor supply. Jist in case.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

it still exist, so rfk jr can peddle pseudoscience/alternative care to children, whom he has an obsession with.

[-] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The name "screwworm" is really offensive. He's a member of the Kennedy family, after all.

[-] MrNesser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's more of a descriptive as in

We are screwed

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 48 points 1 month ago

oh now it's emergency, not when the working containment plan was shitcanned and failed shortly after

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago

Measles are back, screw worm is back, just like the conservatives promised, we're back to how things were in the 1950s

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago
[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

Yes, but they now serve fried chicken.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

We finally have the Centers for Delicious Chicken?

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

11 herbs and ground racoon penis powders!

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Human infestations are rare

Yeah, because we had this shit under control. Human infections were much more common before screwworm was being tracked, the US was releasing sterile flies, and the US realized that flies don’t give a shit about your borders, so you need to treat all of North America.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago

Feed Elon to the worms

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

Trump Worms

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

This was preventable, but US healthcare is only reactionary.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -2 points 1 month ago

i dont think this involves humans, only other animals.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Know what'll fix this? More tariffs

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Did you say bring back DOGE and BigBalls?

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Has RFKjr told the CDC that they need to promote Ivermectin as a treatment for screwworms?

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Oh no, what are we going to do with the consequences of our choices? Screw it...

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

man this is so annoying. actions like these there is no getting back to where we were. Stopping the vaccinations down south is a genie we can't get back into the bottle.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Didn't DOGE cut the budget to control these things?

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