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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      16 hours ago

      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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      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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    I honestly can’t see how this can be believed by anyone to be good news. I strongly disagree with most changes being made, like gutting the education department, but I get it. Uneducated Populations make for more obedient ones if history tells us anything.

    Removing vaccine protection is a whole other level of messed up. The only objective that seems to make sense is to weaken the US at a molecular level. Almost like poisoning a well before an attack. It is meant to weaken, cripple and distract the enemy.

    We all have a pretty good notion to the answer to this question I think, but people from all beliefs and walks of life in the US should be asking who benefits the most from a fundamentally weakened United States?

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      A lot of people still see HIV/Aids as a lgbtq or POC only disease. If it’s going to help the “right” people suffer, they’ll call it a win.

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        That is what all of this is about. Make the right people suffer. The dumb fucks that are pushing this never think past the cruelity.

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      Death and squalor drive people to the churches a lot faster than healthy good times

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    Americas elected leaders no longer deserve to share the same bubble of air as the rest of humanity. Eviscerate them.

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      77+ million idiots voted for this… it’s not just the leaders they elected at fault. Plenty of these people are to blame as well.

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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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    I’m convinced he just wants people to die. Period. Doesn’t matter who.

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      Kapo Stephen "PeeWee Himmler " Miller has said that he wants to reduce the population from 335 million to 100 million, and he wants them to be rich and white. So anything that kills massive amount of Americans is a positive. Poor health care plays directly into that objective. Also, expect poorly managed wars, with a draft, at some point.