Re: More cats infected with H5N1 by infected cat food

On 3/13/25 8:01 PM, RonO wrote:

On 3/13/2025 11:06 AM, Kestrel Clayton wrote:

On 13-Mar-25 11:17, RonO wrote:

On 3/11/2025 12:03 AM, JTEM wrote:

On 3/7/25 10:21 PM, RonO wrote:
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I don't

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Canada's new PM is assuming emergency powers just to deal with
a trade war that they created.
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What do you think Trump is going to do, if you succeed in
whipping up hysteria?
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What a nut job.  Trump is already responsible for the politics responsible for the CDC and USDA not doing their jobs.  He and his Republican cronies had already burned the CDC and USDA as they attempted to deal with Covid.  The USDA was warned repeatedly that they were limited on messing with the food system, and they wanted to prosecute employees of the CDC just for doing their jobs and making the Trumpies look bad.  When the Dairy epidemic started they were already gun shy about doing the right thing.

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And the USDA has been badly understaffed for ages. I don't know about the CDC specifically, but I suspect they are facing the same problem. Many regulatory agencies are so severely understaffed that they're forced to rely on the "Trust Me Bro" approach to compliance verification. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer not to go back to the bad old days of needing to cross my fingers and hope the meat in my frankfurter is actually from pigs or cows.
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The truth is the federal civilian workforce is too small, and has been for decades. The size of the federal workforce has shrunk since 1990, despite the total labor force growing by more than a third. All the bafflegab about "bloated government" is coming from plutocrats who don't want us peons receiving any government services at all.
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Shorter staffed now.  What Trump and DOGE have done is pretty moronic. They aren't cutting waste by mass firings and closing down departments. They are wasting billions of dollars that have already been spent.

Trump goes to the doctor and says, "I want to lose 30 pounds, but I haven't been able to do it."  The doctor says, "Oh, I can easily help with that," pulls out a chainsaw, and cuts off Trump's leg.  And everyone was happy.

Just what he has tried to do with science will likely disrupt science in this country for decades.  All the new researchers that have lost funding or aren't getting it could be lost to science in the future.

In developed countries, essentially all economic growth comes from technological innovation. And essentially all technological innovation begins with basic research. President Musk is probably reducing the US GDP by at least 1% per year over the next ten years.
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Mark Isaak
"Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between 'That
doesn't make sense' and 'I don't understand.'" - Mary Doria Russell