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you can't write fiction this good

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'I want to live': Coal miners speak out as Trump strips away health protections
Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key health protections for miners.
abcnews.go.com

For John Robinson, a retired coal miner who spent his career in the Virginia mines helping to power America into the 21st century, not a moment passes that he isn't feeling the full effects of his black lung diagnosis.

With the support of a burdensome oxygen machine, Robinson joined a handful of other retired Central Appalachian miners to sit down with ABC News' Jay O'Brien in the heart of coal country.

"You are suffocating. You are suffocating. And that's what's going to kill you," Robinson told O'Brien. "I got a wife and two kids and two grandbabies, you know, and I want to live."

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"So, what is going to happen now to the average coal miner if this work isn't being done?" O'Brien asked Dr. Scott Laney, a veteran NIOSH epidemiologist who was placed on administrative leave.

"It's going to lead to premature mortality and death in these miners," Laney said. "There's just no getting around it."


A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement to ABC News that "the Trump Administration is committed to taking care of coal miners, who play a vital role in supporting America's energy," and that a black lung surveillance program previously run by NIOSH would be folded into a new bureau called the Administration for a Healthy America.

But the spokesperson did not say when the program's work would fully resume or how the work would continue without any of the experienced employees who have been laid off.

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In deep red coal country, several of the miners who met with ABC News have faith that Trump will reinstate protections for coal miners.

"If they'll give Trump time and let him work out his -- he's got a plan," Robinson told O'Brien. "I mean, he knows what he's doing. He's a smart man."

"What if he doesn't?" O'Brien asked.

"I feel sorry for the miners," Robinson replied.

[Jungle Rat]

Pukes

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I thought Trump said he was going to fix this on Day 1 (amongst so many other things he clearly has failed to do, yet the cult members don't care)..

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US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an internal email seen by Reuters.

The suspension is another disruption to the nation's food safety programs after the termination and departure of 20,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA, as part of President Donald Trump's effort to shrink the federal workforce.

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Between tariffs and rfk jr, farmers gonna need more welfare. Just don't call it socialism or government handouts - it's only deserved taxpayer support to help our patriotic Trumper farmers weather the necessary trade wars instigated by Dear Leader to save us all and return us to the glory days of the Gilded Age. Welfare and handouts are terms to be used for other, less worthy non-Real Americans.

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

NIAID’s Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department.

https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-i ... arch-stop/

“… According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland, was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm. The facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Detrick. It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors.

… The email, sent by Michael Holbrook, associate director for high containment at the Integrated Research Facility, says the lab is terminating studies on Lassa fever, SARS-Cov-2, and Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but lethal mosquito-borne disease that has been reported in several northern US states. “We are collecting as many samples as is reasonable to ensure these studies are of value,” he says in the email. “We have not been asked to euthanize any animals so these animals will continue to be managed.” Holbrook did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED.

… The email says representatives from the Department of Homeland Security were padlocking freezers in biosafety-level-4 labs, those with the highest level of biosafety containment used for studying highly dangerous microbes.

Only about a dozen BSL-4 labs exist in North America. These labs work with the viruses that cause Ebola, Lassa fever, and Marburg, types of hemorrhagic fevers. The Integrated Research Facility is one of only a few places in the world that is able to perform medical imaging on animals infected with BSL-4 agents.

“The sacrifice to research is immense,” says Gigi Kwik Gronvall, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, on the closure. “If things are unused for a period of time, it will cost more money to get them ready to be used again.

“… The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has also been placed on administrative leave, according to the email. Previously, Schmaljohn served as a senior research scientist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. She has more than 200 research publications, and her work has led to several clinical trials of first-of-their-kind vaccines. Schmaljohn also did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED. …”

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I guess the old one wasn't good enough...

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The only people who appeal to credentials or certification as a means to justify power and authority are people who never actually accomplished anything in their lives or people who make a living in higher education. Remember, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, an Zuckerberg made their billions and billions by dropping out of university and creating something with zero credentials.

[Jungle Rat]

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So what?

No one died. No one was deported. No one was convicted. No one was harmed. So who cares? I am certain the Fed paid to fix the damn door.

In 4 years Mayorkas let in tens of thousands of illegal alien drug traffickers and 100000 US citizens overdose on drugs and fentanyl each year and nothing happens to him. And this cunt harpy bitch of a Senator is pissed about a damn door?

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"The only people who appeal to credentials or certification as a means to justify power and authority are people who never actually accomplished anything in their lives or people who make a living in higher education."

I truly hope you don't check your surgeon's credentials the next time you have difficult and risky major surgery, which I hope will be very soon...

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"In 4 years Mayorkas let in tens of thousands of illegal alien drug traffickers and 100000 US citizens overdose on drugs and fentanyl each year and nothing happens to him. And this cunt harpy bitch of a Senator is pissed about a damn door?"

Holy shit, you really are this stupid. I kinda thought part of it was an act, but you've erased all doubt now...

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They ripped apart the American Citizens home & all IB can say is so what. What a fucking clown.

[innocentbystander]

They will fix it. It won’t cost the family a penny.

The drug traffickers Mayorkas let in have sold drugs to young people who are now dead. Don’t be angry about a door. Where is your priorities?

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"The only people who appeal to credentials or certification as a means to justify power and authority are people who never actually accomplished anything in their lives or people who make a living in higher education."

I truly hope you don't check your surgeon's credentials the next time you have difficult and risky major surgery, which I hope will be very soon...

Surgeons are not experts at surgery because they have a credential. More to the point, surgeons in our country are far too busy saving lives than they are willing to worry about what others are or not credentialed to do.