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It is the leading cause of death for children and teens.
Thats interesting, do you have some references?
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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.
Don't have a dog in this race, but were they also tracking deatha from auto accidents and the like? Because if it was part of a big pie chart of how people die, then no problem. If it was specifically only about guns, then it was political.
> but were they also tracking deatha from auto accidents and the like?
I mean, are we doing learned helplessness tonight or just pretending for rhetorical reasons or...?
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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.”
Yes that's exactly the problem. Scope has been creeping for decades. Effort reduplicated across several sub branches of DHHS
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#64It's a crying shame that given the choice, the voters picked the modern-day equivalent of Lysenkoism[1]. [1] Which due to the timing of its adoption and abandonment did avoid outright causing famines in the Soviet Union... And went on to kill tens of millions of people in China.
The inability for intelligent people to frame their policies and positions in ways very stupid simple people can understand is the biggest failing of the last 50+ years if not longer.
>frame their policies and positions in ways very stupid simple people can understand
This doesn't matter when the intelligent people are working within the confines of reality and their opposition lies gratuitously. The stupid people are choosing the option they want to believe and apparently no amount of education or framing is going to change that.
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“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.”
Yes that's exactly the problem. Scope has been creeping for decades. Effort reduplicated across several sub branches of DHHS
I’m not sure how to explain to you that some problems are multi-factorial.
Have you never needed another department’s assistance with a work task?
The CDC and HUD (and EPA and DOJ and whatnot) would both be involved in lead exposure in children, for example. Different aspects of the same big problem.
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One of the many parallels of this administration with communism
MAGA Maoism https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/08/maga-maoi...
And this was written before the USA took a 10% stake in Intel, turning it into a Chinese style state-owned enterprise!
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The inability for intelligent people to frame their policies and positions in ways very stupid simple people can understand is the biggest failing of the last 50+ years if not longer.
I think the bigger failing in that regard is the educational system. There shouldn't be this many stupid people, and they shouldn't be this stupid.
It’s a big mistake to thing of people as stupid: they’d be far less dangerous if they actually were.
The problem isn’t lack of intelligence but the information space they inhabit and the feeling that they have somehow been mistreated. There’s an entire genre of “why are leopards eating my face?” schadenfreude posts about MAGAs asking why Trump is doing some “surprising” thing he said he was going to do for years. Because they’re _not_ stupid, once they’ve thrown in with a side they’ll put a lot of effort into coming up with rationalizations or attacks to try to “balance” things out. The bitter grievances are really powerful because they let people talk themselves into seeing things as necessary sacrifices: sure, you’re losing Medicaid and paying more in taxes but the alternative is living in a world where Riley Gaines was forced to tie for fifth so I guess you just have to tighten your belt on behalf of female athletes.
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#69The 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.
Welp, better hope they don't decide it's a heritable condition that can only be solved via sterilization programs! Because that has absolutely happened before in North America.
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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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It would be deeply political for the CDC to ignore the top cause of death of children in the USA.
If you oppose politicization of health, that should be an easy point of agreement.