Awful to see the steady dismantling of the CDC. There are doctors and science advocates coming together to scaffold and build up trustworthy sources of info outside of the CDC. I follow epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina and she has a great newsletter she started up around Covid and has kept going - https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/ She recommends the general public avoid the CDC web site now. She recommends healthychildren.org powered by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Some U.S. states have also partnered together i.e. the West Coast Health Alliance that have pulled away from the CDC recommendations. A friend of mine in health noted it’s a big reason why we (I’m in California) can still get our Covid vaccines regardless of age while her sister in Oklahoma was denied. I know there are some North Eastern states that have also partnered up. Going to be very different healthcare messaging to navigate state by state…
People do not comprehend how bad things will get if the dominant world super power collapses. This will be worse than the collapse of the USSR because at least the power vacuum there wasn’t basically the world police whether you think that’s a good or bad thing.
What the fuck does this even mean?
If you have cancer on your legs it’s worse than having it in your arms and then having to cut a limb, but it also depends on the person altogether. This fearmongering of if the US collapses, everything will be turned upside down is how the world has let the cancer spread.
There comes a time where you want to decide if you want to cut off the cancerous part and heal or die with the said cancer.
And talking about the power vacuum, China has more or less taken over in everything except where allies allowed US to deep embed themselves into. Also China’s authoritarian ethos mean there will be a significant push back where Europian union might see more support.
This may or may not playout as I say but the country that doesn’t think food is a human right should fall and burn to ashes.
As an American, yeah. The collapse of the US will be bad. However, if y’all ::gestures broadly at every other country:: cut us off, then it will be less bad for you.