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Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Nonsense, even Reddit says this place is full of toxicity beyond themselves. And that was five years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/diduoy/hacker_news_...

does hackernews sell "grassroots support" the same way reddit does? almost seems like it

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Judge Bates issued a temporary restraining order to the CDC to restore certain websites.

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The blanket removal of all pages in the women's health category is certainly an interesting choice. I guess the next step after denying that there may be more than two genders is to ... deny that there's more than one? Or that gender exists at all? Equality at last!

(for reference: https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/mhh-continuing-education/i...)

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Nonsense, even Reddit says this place is full of toxicity beyond themselves. And that was five years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/diduoy/hacker_news_...

does hackernews sell "grassroots support" the same way reddit does? almost seems like it

Probably. It’s public knowledge that all Y Combinator alumni get a special indicator, and can recognize each other on here, but nobody else is allowed to know who they are. For all you know, that post which was downvoted to oblivion, was solely because it upset five of the insiders, who are also the five replies calling you stupid.

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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For those wondering why this exists: many of the pages that were formerly listed on the CDC website have been disappearing, likely in response to recent executive orders, though this has not been made explicit. As an example, I checked the Women's Health page and noticed a lot of removals -- the pages on menstrual health and hygiene ([1] vs [2]), or the page summarizing health disease statistics in women ([3] vs [4])…

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Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Current administration doing absolutely everything they can to destroy confidence in federal government. All of this so tho oligarchs can get their tax cuts and pave the way for a fully privatized nation.

> to destroy confidence in federal government

not only domestic unfortunately. For 3 years Russian trolls were posting everywhere that US will abandon Ukraine like it happened with Afghanistan and Iraq, and today Trump stopped all the military aid to Ukraine, even the stuff that was already in Poland moving toward the Ukrainian border.

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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Current administration doing absolutely everything they can to destroy confidence in federal government. All of this so tho oligarchs can get their tax cuts and pave the way for a fully privatized nation.

Every day seems like the worst day so far. 47 more months to go. Sure would be nice if we had more than one branch of government.

Re: Public health data disappeared. RestoredCDC.org is bringing it back

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The CDC website was gutted in Jan 2025 following the Trump administration’s opening salvo of executive orders. This deprived American (and global) healthcare professionals of valuable information. There has been loss of faith in the CDC and government in general as repositories of scientific literature amongst the healthcare and scientific community, which is why sites like these have popped up Per the about page, wh…

The CDC lost credibility among conservatives in 2021; when they were insisting on masking for all, the 10 person gathering limit was in many states… but for better or worse, they refused to condemn, and downplayed, the health effects of the George Floyd protests happening simultaneously. This is retaliation against the CDC for implicitly saying you can protest racism in the streets, but cannot attend Thanksgiving wit…

The first amendment prevents the government from abridging the right for people to assemble and peacefully protest. Given that there's a public safety concern, one could argue there's nuance here, but you can hardly blame them for taking the safe route and avoiding violating our constitutional rights, and it's doubtful there was enough precedent for the CDC to feel comfortable taking the legal risk.
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