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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/liberated-wednesday-april-2-2025

Reuters ran an alarmist headline yesterday that probably gave every career bureaucrat heartburn: “Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other US health agencies.” The agency’s former commissioner, Robert Califf, cried “the FDA as we've known it is finished.” Thank goodness. They should have taken the deal.

It might’ve been the biggest single-day purge of the federal government in U.S. history — and it was certainly the largest decapitation of the byzantine health bureaucracies. Newly minted HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted on X: “Our hearts go out to those who have lost their jobs. But the reality is clear: what we've been doing isn't working.”

Kennedy had already promised to reduce headcount from 82,000 to 62,000, and to trim the number of health agencies from 28 to 15. So it shouldn’t have been a surprise.

According to Reuters, the layoff blitz was so fast and so brutal that some employees were notified by security guards when they tried to badge into the HHS offices in DC. Those who’d been axed were handed a ticket and sent home. Reuters complained that workers waited in line for hours, not knowing what would happen when they got to the front.

It wasn’t just line workers. Even Fauci’s heir NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo was canned — though she reportedly was offered a “transition job” in the less glamorous Indian Health Service. Reuters didn’t say whether she accepted. Maybe she’ll send up a smoke signal from the reservation to let us know.

No one reported exactly how many federal health employees got the boot. But it was a lot. The unhinged language in the media coverage was apocalyptic: “bloodbath,” “massacre,” “devastation.” You can easily imagine the hysterical quotes; I don’t need to list them here.

The problem isn’t just the crooks at the top; it’s the culture of cowardice beneath them.

All these “good” CDC and NIH employees kept their mouths shut during covid. They could have spoken up and mitigated the harm. But the “good ones” stayed silent, kept their heads down, to save their jobs. Now, they’ve lost their jobs anyway, since the public has learned the hard way that the bloated health bureaucracies are an imminent danger and must be pruned to protect us all.

Silence in the face of institutional corruption is complicity.

Despite all the pearl-clutching predictions of civilizational collapse, I have yet to see a single example of a clear win for public health. Trump’s critics complain only about things that might happen. The CDC prevents pandemics, they cry. But it didn’t prevent covid, did it? We cannot measure things that didn’t happen. But clearly, the massive investment in public health hasn’t stopped cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, autism, the opioid crisis, or a raft of other burgeoning diseases afflicting our country— things that aren’t happening in other countries.

They even helped enforce a false narrative about Alzheimer’s that stalled progress for twenty-five years.

So … what do we need them for? All they’ve done is balloon into a multi-billion-dollar apparatus of failure and finger-pointing. The pandemic proved the federal health agencies are more dangerous to the public than the diseases they claim to fight.

Finally, as we see Trump fulfilling his campaign promises, we should note his brilliance. Trump broke the rules. The reason no administration ever tried this before wasn’t because they couldn’t — it’s because they wouldn’t. Political appointees always feared the inevitable media meltdown and career-ending backlash.

But Trump appointed people who’ve already been through the media’s mangling machine. What can the media now say about Kennedy they haven’t already dished out in heaping measure? Or Bhattacharya, Makary, or the rest? These folks have already been through the cancellation wringer. They don’t care.

I’m sympathetic that some good scientists will experience a temporary period of underemployment. But they should be back to work soon, snapped up by the private sector for their awesome skills.

This is a long-overdue reckoning. I’d even call it karma.

They were complicit with the poisoner Pharmakeia for profit, fake pandemic, and murderous vaccine programmed democide apparatus against the populace for thirty pieces of silver. Loss of a job is a minimalist 'punishment'. They deserve much worse. They represent the banality of evil at its epitome.

Their jobs were to spin health fictions that harmed rather than helped.

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/christine-grady-wife-of-dr-anthony

Christine Grady, Wife Of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Among Many Fired From NIH In Massive Purge

Yes! Wonderful!

Fauci will appear with a cap saying "Make Healthcare Lobbying For Profit And Democide Great Again".

https://x.com/Holden_Culotta/status/1907090380811620641

https://x.com/Humanspective/status/1907170095396442369

AmericanKulak says

Woah - SNAP is about 25% of Coke's revenue!?

They'll still buy it. Once hooked it's like an addiction. Caffeine and sugar. I relied on caffeine for 2 decades roughly. Cut it out and it was rough, but now I can wake up at 4:30am with no need for a boost.

The problem is this push as kids for 8 hours of sleep. I used to sleep 10 hours as a kid. So when reality hits and you have to get ready as an adult for a job you feel like shit. You've lost 10% of your life sleeping. So most do coffee and I know a lot do soda as well in the morning which is worse.

Given the time of this comment you really don't need much sleep. I get more done when everyone is sleeping. Daily tasks are done before anyone wakes up. Less stress on me and everyone. I generally will crash at 9pm and get up at 3-4am.

What I'm saying is I think the sleep hours are arbitrary from a different time. If I was some homesteader or city dweller in the 1800's with no electric I'd eat dinner and go to bed. I don't know if they still do it, but the Spanish had it right with Siestas (naps). I know I can't sleep 8 hours straight so I usually take a Siesta. Helps with insomnia and not be drained since I won't take pills.

AmericanKulak says

Woah - SNAP is about 25% of Coke's revenue!?

Possibly so, considering that would include soda and other drinks And when the taxpayers are paying for it, you are going to buy the name brand, not the store brand like you and I would. And that 25% would be for the US only though. I suspect that if Food Stamps disallow sugary soda and snack foods then deadbeats will use their food stamps for name brand diet soda and other name brand drinks, and probably their non food stamps money on store brand junk food (Pepsi does not make private label snack foods, but only make name brank junk foods). Presumably Pepsi would be impacted more here.

More hopium. Stretch your vestigial and puckered Overton windows, bippies.



https://t.me/WeTheMedia/121784

Well, maybe that does explain Kennedy's 180 degree turn.

They killed his father and his uncle (and possibly his nephew). How credible would a threat to him now to do the same to him and his family be?

stereotomy says

They killed his father and his uncle (and possibly his nephew). How credible would a threat to him now to do the same to him and his family be?

If he is that afraid, what's the point of wanting to join the cabinet in the first place?

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/anomalous-thursday-may-1-2025-c-and

Yesterday, the Boston Globe ran a story headlined, “RFK Jr. will order ‘placebo’ testing for new vaccines, alarming health experts.” What would we do without alarmed health experts? Is there any other kind? Anyway, not only was the Globe’s article another fine example of journalistic malpractice, but for careful readers, it accidentally cut the vaccine industrial complex’s femoral artery.

On some future day, aging medical school doctors will look back on our time, and tell their fresh-faced students how, back in the day, pharma firms used to test vaccines by leaving them out overnight and seeing whether they were still there in the morning. If the wee vaccine fairies didn’t spirit the needles away in the small hours, then Bob’s your uncle: approved.

I exaggerate, but just barely.

Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy and HHS made what could be the simplest but most impactful announcement in American history (if you count in total life-years-saved). From now on, with limited exceptions (like the annual flu shot), the FDA will require all vaccines —including those already on the schedule— to be tested against an inert placebo, like pure saline.

“All new vaccines will undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials prior to licensure — a radical departure from past practices,” an HHS spokesperson told The Washington Post. ...

You trusted that they were doing the work. You gullible dopes actually believed they weren’t just chanting “supercalifragilistic” ten times and hoping for the best.

But no. Here’s the giveaway: despite the article’s main theme was about how testing against placebos alarms experts, the Globe never bothered to explain how vaccines are currently tested. If non-placebo testing is so wonderful, then why didn’t that information come first, right up front? But that bit was conspicuously absent, concealed behind empty technical jargon and meaningless buzzwords like “correlates of protection” and “biological responses.”

Nearly every other drug except for vaccines must succeed against a placebo. But under long-standing FDA regulations, vaccines are excepted. ...

Not only that, but they don’t even test for efficacy anymore by measuring whether the drug actually reduces the disease or prevents hospitalizations. They just test whether victims’ immune systems produce certain antibodies. If so, they assume that also means fewer people will be hospitalized for the disease, which is a classic but oddly-named logical fallacy called “begging the question.”

They know it’s circular reasoning, yet they all keep pretending “everything is going to be fine.”

But now it’s all over. Placebos are back! You are probably feeling relieved and thinking, good, at least we have that debate settled, glad we have all behind us now. Sorry! Au contraire, mon ami. We must now deal with the experts. ...

Michael Osterholm, the University of Minnesota infectious-disease expert on Biden’s transition team, said the change _threatened the existence of coronavirus vaccines_. I’m not sure Osterholm realized what he was admitting there. If covid jabs can’t survive a placebo-controlled trial, then… they shouldn’t be sold. Again, it’s common sense, doc. ...

The Globe and the rest of corporate media studiously ignored a very basic problem with all the experts’ arguments: the simple fact that all other drugs require placebo testing. So any ethics concerns, delays in releasing, additional expense, and ‘risks’ of non-approval are equally applicable to all other medicines. Somehow, for all other drugs except vaccines, placebo testing is considered not just acceptable but de rigueur.

What jab experts need to explain isn’t why placebo trials are ‘too risky’ — it’s why vaccines get a hall pass while new blood thinners, cancer drugs, and antidepressants must run the full gauntlet. If a heart drug that could save millions is required to beat a sugar pill in a fair fight, why not a shot you’re giving to a perfectly healthy infant? ...

The experts aren’t afraid that RFK Jr. is wrong— they’re afraid he’s right. They are terrified the public might start noticing how little scrutiny vaccines have actually received compared to every other drug on the market. If experts were confident in the science, they’d welcome placebo trials as vindication. Fine, go ahead and do your little placebo trials, you’ll see we were right all along. Their panic tells you they’re not afraid of being disproven — they’re afraid of being exposed.

This simple policy change was much more than a first step. It was a seismic move. With only a little luck, it could change everything.

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/hhs-halts-deadly-disease-research

HHS Halts Deadly Disease Research at Fort Detrick BSL-4 Biolab in 'Safety Stand-Down'

Decision follows "identification and documentation of personnel issues involving contract staff that compromised the facility's safety culture."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered the halt to deadly disease research conducted at the Integrated Research Facility (IRF), located within Fort Detrick, a U.S. Army base in Frederick, Maryland.

Fort Detrick has long served as the U.S. military’s bioweapons epicenter—where government scientists conducted classified gain-of-function research, aerosolized virus dispersion trials, and weaponization of deadly pathogens like anthrax, plague, tularemia, and Ebola under secretive programs such as the U.S. Army’s Special Operations Division and Project Jefferson, much of it hidden behind black budgets and shielded from congressional oversight.

The facility’s director, Connie Schmaljohn, has been placed on administrative leave, according to a Wednesday WIRED report.

The great sham was safety testing vaccines against a "control" which contained everything except the biological agent. That meant that both test and control got the same adjuvants, aluminum, mercury, etc.. This irreparably confounded the trials, since probably most of the symptoms were caused by the preservatives and adjuvants in the vaccines, at least until the 1980's, when the biological components became increasingly more hazardous.