Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:54 AM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #110

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I'm not sure who told you that casting a blank ballot represents a "protest vote", but I assure you that is not how our current voting system is set up. To be clear, voting systems should have explicit options for protest votes; an explicit "I reject all candidates" option. Unfortunately, ours does not, by design; a blank ballot instead means "I endorse all candidates". Pretending otherwise will not change this.

Playing the tape to the end, what happens is the protest votes win? Start a new election cycle? What happens if that cycle now extends past the end of the current admin’s term which cause their time in office to extend beyond 2 terms? How do you then prevent the incumbent from using that to their advantage to stay in office? Jeebus, I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, but dems the times we live in I guess.

Post by inferiorhuman » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:55 AM UTC

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Submissions like that often get flagged because they are mainstream political news items. As the HN guidelines say: “If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.”

Post by twright » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:57 AM UTC

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They were ordered to halt all publications, cancel trainings and not communicate with state health departments

What is the supposed rationale for this? Or is this just a general ideological purge of the government? This is going to be a crazy four years, if it’s only four.

Post by aliasxneo » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 1:58 AM UTC

giantg2 wrote: post #111

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This is the type of thing that'd normally show up on CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report which has been published weekly since 1960 (my understanding is this is without fail). But unfortunately the current administration has decided an ideological purification is more important than keeping the American public apprised of threats to their health. So it wasn't published last week, and probably won't be this we…

Wouldn't this have showed up in the reports last year when the numbers were actively happening? There's been 1 case this year it says. If the ideology was what you're saying, then wouldn't they want to spread the info and blame it on the "dirty illegals" or whatever?

Post by throwaway5292 » Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 2:00 AM UTC

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…of the 63% who bothered themselves to vote.