The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

… content from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, which includes data from a national survey, has disappeared; so have parts of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Social Vulnerability Index and the Environmental Justice Index. The CDC’s landing page for HIV data has also vanished. And the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis, is down.

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  • Flying Squid
    11•17 hours ago

    I am so looking forward to another week on Lemmy full of assholes telling me I should care more about Palestinians than my own child because queer people are safe in America and Palestinians are dying.

    (And any queer Palestinians in America? Fuck them, I guess. That’s the message I seem to be getting.)

    • @Beetschnapps
      6•15 hours ago

      WhY dO yOu SuPpOrT GeNoCiDe JoE?

      But for real, I could also ask why Lemmy mods/communities perpetuate this same BS. There’s an argument to neutrality but the overall narrative is getting pretty wild.

      • Flying Squid
        4•15 hours ago

        It was bad enough before the election, but this is just denial of what is actually happening in order to justify what they’ve said before.

        • @Beetschnapps
          0•15 hours ago

          It’s a willing disbelief to justify apathy? I can’t find any other logically valid explanations…

          It’s like enough folks have their head in the sand for their own sake to allow this to happen…

    • JWBananasEnglish
      -11•16 hours ago

      Squid, as a highly stressed out banana who also needs to touch grass, I implore you, seriously, please touch grass.

      • Flying Squid
        12•15 hours ago

        As someone who has been told every single fucking day to put other people’s needs above his daughters and also told every single fucking day that there is no need to worry about a queer genocide in the U.S., I implore you, seriously, to block me if you don’t want me talking about how both claims are fucking ludicrous and how pissed off I am to have that thrown at me every fucking day.

        So I am sorry you don’t want people to talk about an impending genocide, but I really do not give a flying fuck about it stressing you out to hear about it any more than I would give a fuck about it stressing you out to hear about the Holocaust in the 1940s.

        • JWBananasEnglish
          1•39 minutes ago

          So I am sorry you don’t want people to talk about an impending genocide

          Quite the contrary. Say it loud and say it proud.

          how pissed off I am to have that thrown at me every fucking day.

          This part. This is the part that makes me think “He needs a break.” And again, I say that as someone who also needs a break.

          Maybe that’s projection. I don’t know. All I know is this is the first week that has left me seriously thinking about just deleting all my accounts, taking a break from the doom scrolling, and waiting for the dust to settle. The unproductive, bad faith, aggressive discourse on top of what is actually happening is mentally and physically exhausting.

          You’re still putting your time and energy into emigrating, right? That’s got to be an exhausting process for a whole family to handle as it is.

          I implore you, seriously. Take a few days away from being terminally online. “Flood the zone” is in full effect right now. This is the part where they’re purposefully wearing us down. Save some of that energy for later.

          Maybe it’s not my place to offer that advice. I certainly don’t know you personally. But you remind me a lot of me when I’m overwhelmed. Sorry about the bad-taste post before.

        • @JustAnotherKay
          7•15 hours ago

          Squid, as a highly stressed out Kay who also needs to speak out against oppression and violence, I implore you, seriously, please keep up the good fight.