Tuesday Top of Mind 2/4/25- We warned you but you didn’t listen Part I

Where to start? Which dumpster fire do I start with?

For me and for every healthcare worker I know, the logical starting place is the takedown and dumbing down of all the CDC web pages.

This is DANGEROUS!

But what galls me are the people just sitting in the sunlight, playing with their hair, playing with the sunlight saying “tra-la-la, I don’t see anything.”

Seriously?

Is that what you are going to say when the chaos impacts you and yours? When your child comes to you sobbing because (insert reason)? When you are denied an opportunity that instead went to a mediocre white man? When your parent suddenly has to move in with you because of the financial malfeasance going on in the social security offices and they can no longer live on their own?

When will it be enough?

What words or combination of words can be said to make you start to PAY ATTENTION to the country-ending shit that is going on in Washington?

By people who were not elected or confirmed by the senate?

Even if you won’t pay attention, I will. Someone has to watch as our government is pillaged and women and children are raped and denied proper healthcare because someone wants more babies in the US. Gilead and the Handmaid’s Tale is fiction, not a roadmap.

The dismantling of the CDC pages is just one step they have taken. It is a step that impacts all of us, sick or well.

What’s going on with the bird flu? Can’t tell you because those pages has been taken down.

What is the proper birth control method that a 26 y.o. female who has zero children but a life-limiting disease and who doesn’t want to risk a pregnancy ending her life prematurely? Can’t tell you because those pages have been taken down.

And the fact that RFK, who is the scariest nominee of them all, has passed the first hurdle? Makes me incandescent with rage. A lawyer who fucked up Samoa with his lies about the measles vaccine now potentially has the entire US to fuck up.

I understand the desire to look away from the atrocities that are being inflicted on us and our government is strong. Take time when you are feeling overwhelmed. I understand, I do.

Someone has to bear witness.