Summary

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to eliminate the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) and dissolve the Office of Minority Health as part of a broader HHS restructuring that will cut 20,000 positions.

OIDP, key to vaccine promotion and HIV prevention, oversees programs like the national vaccine strategy and “Ending the HIV Epidemic.”

Its functions may be absorbed into a new agency, the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA).

The move raises concerns about public health impacts, especially amid declining vaccination rates.

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Glad my kids are already vaccinated holy shit

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These people are so stupid, that even after killing so many unvaxxed conservatives with Covid, they are doubling down on the anti-vaxx nonsense. As long as intelligent people can still get their kids vaxxed, its only the children of ignorant MAGA Morons who will be dying.

It’s literally Darwinism in action, but they’re so stupid they don’t understand or believe in that, either.

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And this will improve public health?

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In the long run. Enough MAGAs and their children will eventually die off that Democrats will easily win elections, and they can finally do Medicare 4 All. It’s Darwinism.

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Just a matter of time before someone reintroduces smallpox to humans.

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Might be him at this rate

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I’m old enough that I had a smallpox vax as a kid, but they stopped doing them in the late 70s.

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Disease weeds out the weak. /s

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Man, it’s one thing to kick the US into a third world country, but making it into the world’s largest pepper colony is quite a step that I didn’t see coming

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I know what you mean, but knowing what words mean means something too. The US can’t become a third world country.

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Can’t? It’s already halfway there.

Dictatorial regime in charge

Very low to (soon) hardly any education standards

Barely any healthcare available for anyone

Highly corrupt

Highly corrupt police force that can act with near impunity

Nearly all news outlets are controlled by government and spew nothing but propaganda 24/7

Largest part of the population is or is sliding into poverty

Rampant homelessness

I can go on for a while…

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You could go on, but so far you are getting nowhere. I was trying to get you to look at the definition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

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