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CDC officials’ resignation emails

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Post by DoctorOetker »

ceejayoz wrote: post #36
throwawaymaths wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when the CDC started tracking gun violence as an "epidemic"? Surely someone should but the CDC doing so is clearly outside of its charter. That was one major moment that betrayed the CDC becoming a political and not a scientific organization

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

Is work an epidemic? At what rate do people die or get injured at work?

Re: CDC officials’ resignation emails

#42

Post by unsnap_biceps »

ceejayoz wrote: post #36
throwawaymaths wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember when the CDC started tracking gun violence as an "epidemic"? Surely someone should but the CDC doing so is clearly outside of its charter. That was one major moment that betrayed the CDC becoming a political and not a scientific organization

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

The mental health of the perpetrator is also a public health concern and could fairly be considered a epidemic

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#43

Post by ceejayoz »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #40
ceejayoz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. No need to waste funds on it. Anything less is a dangerous distraction for the CDC which really needs to focus on its core competency -- protecting the us from pathogenic threats. Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue.

So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too.

> Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.

Re: CDC officials’ resignation emails

#44

Post by ceejayoz »

DoctorOetker wrote: post #41
ceejayoz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

Is work an epidemic? At what rate do people die or get injured at work?

It is the leading cause of death for children and teens.

Re: CDC officials’ resignation emails

#45

Post by throwawaymaths »

DoctorOetker wrote: post #41
ceejayoz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

Is work an epidemic? At what rate do people die or get injured at work?

Yeah maybe the CDC should get into the business of OSHA too.

Re: CDC officials’ resignation emails

#46

Post by throwawaymaths »

ceejayoz wrote: post #43
throwawaymaths wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. No need to waste funds on it. Anything less is a dangerous distraction for the CDC which really needs to focus on its core competency -- protecting the us from pathogenic threats. Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not.

> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too. > Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not. Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.

CDC is not "the department of health". That would be DHHS.

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Post by Insanity »

pplante wrote: post #4
CamperBob2 wrote: post #3

The good news, at least, is that next week there's a chance we'll finally get to the bottom of the whole autism thing! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-claims-we-... Seriously. If you voted for this, you owe civilization a debt that you will probably never be wealthy enough or long-lived enough to repay.

As an autistic person with 3 kids with ASD, I get triggered by this bullshit nearly daily. I sincerely hope that whatever "reveal" they have planned does not further harm our ability to access the early interventions that my kids are benefiting from.

Not to be pessimistic, but I’m pretty sure that whatever they do will do more harm than good, given how much of a hot mess the current administration is.

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Post by random3 »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #35
amazingamazing wrote: post #32

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Remember when the CDC started tracking gun violence as an "epidemic"? Surely someone should but the CDC doing so is clearly outside of its charter. That was one major moment that betrayed the CDC becoming a political and not a scientific organization

So better throw the baby with the bath water and not have CDC then have CDC treat gun violence or suicides as an epidemic, yes?

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#49

Post by ceejayoz »

throwawaymaths wrote: post #46
ceejayoz wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Plenty of other organizations public and private already handling this issue. So? We have more than one law enforcement agency, too. > Should the department of HUD send rockets to space? Of course not. Should the department of Health touch on a major health issue? Of course.

CDC is not "the department of health". That would be DHHS.

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.”

Re: CDC officials’ resignation emails

#50

Post by ceejayoz »

unsnap_biceps wrote: post #42
ceejayoz wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Help me understand how gunshot wounds have nothing to do with public health? They study the other common forms of death/injury. If anything, giving guns a special exemption from scrutiny is the political move.

The mental health of the perpetrator is also a public health concern and could fairly be considered a epidemic

Yes.

The folks who want us to pretend gun violence isn’t a problem also oppose mental health funding.

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