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Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by whatshisface »

Applejinx wrote: post #87
jagged-chisel wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't this data already inaccessible to those who are not tech savvy? My grandma isn’t visiting any of the data download sites provided by the federal government. She doesn’t even know why she would, or even that such data is available. And if I provide it to her, she hasn’t the skills to do anything with it.

That's why this is more of an attack on the Hacker News demographic, not Grandma. If you had a real startup doing real things in healthcare, this is an intentional spoke in your wheels.

Grandma goes to the doctor.

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by treis »

CalRobert wrote: post #27
diggan wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management Suddenly I feel out of the loop when it comes to US politics, how come Musk is suddenly seemingly seizing control of parts of the US government? I don't recall him being on any ballots or anything?

As it so happens he did not appear on any ballots. But Musk (his aides more specifically) have locked federal employees out of their own systems https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-... Evidently set up an on-prem email server at the OPM to send out their emails asking disloyal employees to resign https://gizmodo.com/federal-employees-sue-agency-over-new-em... And is attempting to do the same a…

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Post by tremon »

sega_sai wrote: post #69

An "interesting" consequence of these type of measures of stopping collecting or publishing data will be that soon it will be impossible to tell how much infant mortality, or number of cases of tuberculosis or similar changed with respect to last year. Maybe that is partially the goal.

Yes, that may be part of the same playbook. Those pesky foreign viruses are taking our ill! We must stop that! Glory to the White Death!

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by liontwist »

nehal3m wrote: post #83
liontwist wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Whether or not you’ve been duly elected has nothing to do with whether or not you behave like a fascist afterwards. Most fascists were elected.

Indeed 20th century fascist revolutions used the guise of law for their takeover. Following them would include banning the existence of other parties, changing the constitution to give all power to executive, cancelling elections, etc.

I assumed the poster was using facist to mean “bad authoritarian government” - not that trump is actually a disciple of Mussolini style philosophy.

Right now the democratic system is working as designed, minus the incredible power of the executive branch which has been built up since FDR. Obama pioneered this approach to executive order.

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Post by oefrha »

nine_zeros wrote: post #76
reddalo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even worse for us of the rest of the world, because the United States influence the whole world, and we can't do anything against this tragedy.

It is bad for the rest of the world but the rest of the world has an exit. Call your representatives and stop using US dollar for trade. Literally, that one action alone will save a lot of grief for people outside the US. This is not a joke. What will sting Elon, Trump and crooks the most is losing their wealth. The rest of the world does not need to suffer for these crooks.

That’s wishful thinking… One can’t simply stop using USD for trade on a whim. Decoupling will take at least a decade if not longer.

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Post by cmriversepi »

I’m an epidemiology professor and I write a weekly “weather report” outbreaks [1]. These communication and data blackouts are coming at a bad time. We’re having an unusual flu season—activity has rebounded unexpectedly. I’ve been having to scramble for data, last week by visiting each state health department website. It’s really troubling and consequential.

[1] https://caitlinrivers.substack.com

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by mort96 »

bmitc wrote: post #73
CalRobert wrote: post #5

This is part of a broader rolling catastrophe. Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-31/exclus... Nasa took down their applied sciences page and is evidently scrubbing the data https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1icqchv/why_is_the_nas... ( https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/ ) Lots of other data sets are disappearing too: https://ma…

How is this not all illegal? How are cease and resists not being put into place? An illegal immigrant, narcissist, billionaire, and many other things is taking over federal agencies and actively purging them for his own ideologies.

I see these kinds of comments regularly and am curious: what is your thought process? What makes you think that it's not illegal? What makes you think that legality matters here?

Re: CDC data are disappearing

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Post by technothrasher »

joemazerino wrote: post #26

Are or is?

Are. If you are talking about a specific set of information, data is a plural. If you are talking about the concept of information sets, data is a singular.

"Data is stored on a computer's hard drive." "The data for the experiment are stored on the computer's hard drive."

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