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Awful to see the steady dismantling of the CDC. There are doctors and science advocates coming together to scaffold and build up trustworthy sources of info outside of the CDC. I follow epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina and she has a great newsletter she started up around Covid and has kept going - https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/ She recommends the general public avoid the CDC web site now. She recommends healthychildren.org powered by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Some U.S. states have also partnered together i.e. the West Coast Health Alliance that have pulled away from the CDC recommendations. A friend of mine in health noted it's a big reason why we (I'm in California) can still get our Covid vaccines regardless of age while her sister in Oklahoma was denied. I know there are some North Eastern states that have also partnered up. Going to be very different healthcare messaging to navigate state by state...

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[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

America is no longer trustworthy.

It’s dark that people think America can be saved at this point. Thats more ominous than americas collapse because it shows the truth of the people behind Americas culture…

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

You should hope that people have hope.

Look at what happened when the USSR fell. Genocide in the former Republics, a kleptocracy with nuclear weapons, and more.

Think all of the US arsenal will just vanish in a puff of smoke? Think the crash of the dollar won't mean a world wide depression?

[-] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

People do not comprehend how bad things will get if the dominant world super power collapses. This will be worse than the collapse of the USSR because at least the power vacuum there wasn't basically the world police whether you think that's a good or bad thing.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

What the fuck does this even mean?

If you have cancer on your legs it's worse than having it in your arms and then having to cut a limb, but it also depends on the person altogether. This fearmongering of if the US collapses, everything will be turned upside down is how the world has let the cancer spread.

There comes a time where you want to decide if you want to cut off the cancerous part and heal or die with the said cancer.

And talking about the power vacuum, China has more or less taken over in everything except where allies allowed US to deep embed themselves into. Also China's authoritarian ethos mean there will be a significant push back where Europian union might see more support.

This may or may not playout as I say but the country that doesn't think food is a human right should fall and burn to ashes.

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" huh?

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just think people don’t even understand what hope and faith are. They will vote and pay anyone for a sloppy heartless fix. It might be best if things collapse and turn to a real hell if it can at least be natural chaos. The universe can actually bring order to that. Humans trying to own and control life ruins it when they do it for the wrong reasons or let manipulated fear and emotion do their bidding.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

America's inevitable collapse will be a global collapse. And the rich and big corpos will come out on top.

[-] peteyestee@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

And we all paid for that to happen. That’s the saddest part.

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