#pandemics — Public Fediverse posts
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The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic by Thomas Asbridge, 2026
“A magisterial history” (The Guardian) of humanity’s greatest natural disaster—the Black Death—that reveals the true global impact and terrible human cost of this calamity, from the renowned author of The Crusades and The Greatest Knight.
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Ousted #CDC Director Susan Monarez revealed she was pressured to preapprove #vaccine recommendations from #RFKJr. hand-picked advisory panel, which replaced 17 #fired #experts with vaccine skeptics. Monarez refused, saying #science, not #ideology, must guide decisions, and was #purged after resisting #political interference.#publichealth #vaccines #medicine #pandemics #healthcare https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ousted-cdc-head-says-she-was-pressured-preapprove-vaccine-panel-recommendations-2025-09-04/ #science #medicine #publichealth #covid19
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Plus, #ClimateCrisis, #pandemics, #ecosystem #collapse #FoodShortages & so on, are much harder to respond to when we pre-occupied by idiots trying to make things worse.
"How Trump’s “Mass Deportation” Plan Would Ruin America
It would be brutal, costly, & likely illegal.
Undocumented Immigrants Pay Billions of Dollars in Taxes. [it turns out]
Deporting 7 million workers would “reduce national employment by an amount similar to that experienced during the Great Recession.” GDP would immediately contract by 1.4 percent, & , eventually, by 2.6 percent. In 20 years, the US economy would shrink nearly 6 percent—or $1.6 trillion. Trump’s plan would lead to a dire shortage of low-wage workers, which would “bring on a recession while reigniting inflation.
a 50 percent decrease in the farm labor supply could result in a 21% increase in the prices of hand-picked crops. “If [immigrant workers] just disappeared overnight, I do not think that we in this country could grow enough food.”"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-mass-deportation-plan-immigration-border-patrol-ice-dhs-migrants-undocumented/