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tblue37

(67,304 posts)
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 03:53 PM Yesterday

Friday night massacre underway at CDC.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@sherylnyt.bsky.social) 2025-10-11T02:10:04.292Z
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Friday night massacre underway at CDC. (Original Post) tblue37 Yesterday OP
We're burning the Library at Alexandria, on purpose. Maru Kitteh Yesterday #1
This! tblue37 Yesterday #6
What will we do without ultralite001 Yesterday #2
What do you mean? Ilsa Yesterday #3
Essential reading... ultralite001 23 hrs ago #7
Thank you. I misinterpreted your intention. Ilsa 8 hrs ago #8
If that's sarcasm on your part, it's not showing you in a particularly flattering light. Maru Kitteh Yesterday #4
Maybe someone will conclude that there's no such thing as PoindexterOglethorpe Yesterday #5

Maru Kitteh

(30,799 posts)
1. We're burning the Library at Alexandria, on purpose.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 04:05 PM
Yesterday

The arsonists ran on a platform of setting the house on fire, and this country said “Yeah, give us some of that please.”



Ilsa

(63,428 posts)
3. What do you mean?
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 04:36 PM
Yesterday

That's the report that tells internists, pediatricians, etc, what diseases, especially infectious ones, are increasing and how dangerous they are, with comorbidities and how they can be treated. You see no value in it?

ultralite001

(2,103 posts)
7. Essential reading...
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 10:23 PM
23 hrs ago

Front to back...

An immeasurable loss if it ceases publication...

Ilsa

(63,428 posts)
8. Thank you. I misinterpreted your intention.
Sun Oct 12, 2025, 02:13 PM
8 hrs ago

I thought you were being sarcastic about the necessity of the MMWR. My bad.

Maru Kitteh

(30,799 posts)
4. If that's sarcasm on your part, it's not showing you in a particularly flattering light.
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 04:38 PM
Yesterday

Not really sure it’s having the effect you intended, either way.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(28,140 posts)
5. Maybe someone will conclude that there's no such thing as
Sat Oct 11, 2025, 04:38 PM
Yesterday

Doznes of "disease detectives," and refuse to respond.

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