Stalin
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the inevitable outcome of putting the lunatics in charge of the asylum
"..The United States has reached a catastrophic milestone in the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases, exposing the devastating consequences of a systemic assault on public health infrastructure. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation has already confirmed 982 measles cases in 2026, while CNN’s measles tracker reports an even higher toll of 1,030 infections.
The US did not breach the 1,000-case threshold last year until May, putting the country on a rapid trajectory to greatly surpass 2025’s three-decade high of 2,281 infections. This is not merely an epidemiological failure, but a historic regression in which a highly contagious virus, officially eliminated more than a quarter-century ago, is being allowed to rampage through the population.
The measles outbreak comes under conditions of deepening dysfunction in the federal public health system. The principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control, former Republican congressman and medical doctor Ralph Abraham, announced that he was stepping down to attend to “unforeseen family obligations,” effective immediately.
His departure follows that of Jim O’Neill, the right-wing economist and protégé of ultra-right billionaire Peter Thiel, who served as acting CDC director until he was removed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on February 14. O’Neill’s appointment was only intended to be temporary, and he is now expected to be nominated to lead the National Science Foundation, another key scientific institution for which he is equally unqualified.
The CDC has all but been left rudderless in a storm of infectious disease and politics. This is not incompetence; the absence of leadership is not a failure of policy but the intended policy itself—to bury the CDC in the quagmire and make it impossible to fulfill its mission.
The agency is now helmed on an acting basis by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the notorious Great Barrington Declaration—the herd-immunity-through-mass-infection manifesto widely condemned by public health experts as a blueprint for mass death—who has entirely failed to flag South Carolina’s systematic underreporting or demand transparent hospitalization data, signaling a tacit federal endorsement of the state’s obfuscation.
The geography of this crisis highlights the social terrain where vaccine refusal has been deliberately cultivated. South Carolina has emerged as the undisputed epicenter, recording 973 cases in a massive outbreak centered in Spartanburg County. As the measles crisis explodes across the state, public health officials are engaged in dangerous obfuscation of the disease’s true severity. South Carolina does not require its hospitals to report measles-related admissions to the state. Consequently, the state is reporting a staggeringly low hospitalization rate of just 2 percent, or a mere 20 admissions.
comrade stalin
moscow
"..The United States has reached a catastrophic milestone in the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases, exposing the devastating consequences of a systemic assault on public health infrastructure. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation has already confirmed 982 measles cases in 2026, while CNN’s measles tracker reports an even higher toll of 1,030 infections.
The US did not breach the 1,000-case threshold last year until May, putting the country on a rapid trajectory to greatly surpass 2025’s three-decade high of 2,281 infections. This is not merely an epidemiological failure, but a historic regression in which a highly contagious virus, officially eliminated more than a quarter-century ago, is being allowed to rampage through the population.
The measles outbreak comes under conditions of deepening dysfunction in the federal public health system. The principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control, former Republican congressman and medical doctor Ralph Abraham, announced that he was stepping down to attend to “unforeseen family obligations,” effective immediately.
His departure follows that of Jim O’Neill, the right-wing economist and protégé of ultra-right billionaire Peter Thiel, who served as acting CDC director until he was removed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on February 14. O’Neill’s appointment was only intended to be temporary, and he is now expected to be nominated to lead the National Science Foundation, another key scientific institution for which he is equally unqualified.
The CDC has all but been left rudderless in a storm of infectious disease and politics. This is not incompetence; the absence of leadership is not a failure of policy but the intended policy itself—to bury the CDC in the quagmire and make it impossible to fulfill its mission.
The agency is now helmed on an acting basis by NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the notorious Great Barrington Declaration—the herd-immunity-through-mass-infection manifesto widely condemned by public health experts as a blueprint for mass death—who has entirely failed to flag South Carolina’s systematic underreporting or demand transparent hospitalization data, signaling a tacit federal endorsement of the state’s obfuscation.
The geography of this crisis highlights the social terrain where vaccine refusal has been deliberately cultivated. South Carolina has emerged as the undisputed epicenter, recording 973 cases in a massive outbreak centered in Spartanburg County. As the measles crisis explodes across the state, public health officials are engaged in dangerous obfuscation of the disease’s true severity. South Carolina does not require its hospitals to report measles-related admissions to the state. Consequently, the state is reporting a staggeringly low hospitalization rate of just 2 percent, or a mere 20 admissions.
Measles cases in the US surge past 1,000 in 2026
Measles cases in the United States have already exceeded 1,000 in 2026, increasing at a far faster pace than last year, which marked a three-decade high. The outbreak exposes the deadly consequences of the Trump-Kennedy effort to destroy public health institutions.
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comrade stalin
moscow
