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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        Yeah make fun of him for a medical condition, great I guess that’s cool because he’s a shitheel?

        As an aside you don’t find it hypocritical to spread medical misinformation while mocking a dude for medical misinformation?

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          I recently heard someone say that the problem with making fun of a shitheel for something that they can’t help is that you’re also making fun of all the people with the same condition. And they don’t deserve that.

          So I’ll apologize to all the people who have become disingenuous dipshits who deny all of science because a worm ate part of their brains.

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            The worm didn’t eat any part of his brain they push aside brain matter as a cyst until the cyst pops and then there can be some damage, they caught it before that so no issue. He just took some medicine, it died and his immune system flushed it out and brain matter moves back.

            He had to disclose it in the divorce because for a time while the cyst is active and growing cranial pressure increases and you get symptoms like brain fog. So that’s what I mean by medical misinformation and being irresponsible in a similar way to the way he is.

            You should just think about the people who have also been effected and realize you’re making fun of the condition not the man.

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            Yes, the “brain worm guy” was a shitheel before he got a parasite that in no way made him the shitheel he is. He was spreading medical misinformation prior to that and that type of cist generally doesn’t effect neurology in a major way, and it’s actually more common then you’d think in certain parts of the world. So yes, medical misinformation and just a generally shitty thing to do.

            You’re just insulting other people that have had the same thing happen. How is that hard to see?

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    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…

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      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?