6 pathogens that were removed and recent news articles for each, mostly from this month

CDC FoodNet removed 6 out of 8 pathogens from required surveillance on July 1st.

Announced Aug 26.
Citing "lack of funds".

Cases of each pop up all the time around the country. 4 this month.

#CDC #foodnet #health #foodsafety

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.

The State Dept's annual reports on international human rights, meant to inform congressional decisions on foreign affairs, will no longer include things like:
denying freedom of movement & peaceful assembly, political prisoners w/o due process, and restrictions on free and fair elections. - @npr.org

Could More Controlled Burns Have Stopped the L.A. Fires? They can be an effective wildfire prevention tool — but not always.

"Fuels are not really the issue in these big fires — it’s the extreme winds.
Prescription burning [chaparral has] essentially no impact on Santa Ana wind-driven fires."

“short of mowing whole hillsides down to nothing, there’s little management work to be done where houses meet undeveloped lands"

Federal Judge: Californians Who Fought Fires In Prison Can’t Become Career Firefighters California has long relied on prisoners to fight wildfires. Yet the state’s licensing laws make it almost impossible for former prisoners to earn a living fighting fires full-time.

2021, California licensing law that bans inmates from working as full-time firefighters, even if they were trained to fight fires while imprisoned, was upheld last week by a federal judge.

Since World War II, California has relied on prisoners to fight the state’s wildfires.

#firefighting #inmates

Inmates are fighting California wildfires in long-running and controversial practice California has turned to incarcerated firefighters since 1915. To those opposed to the use of inmates as firefighters, the system is seen as exploitative.

Up to 30% of California's firefighters are inmates in prison.

More than 900 inmates among more than 7,500 personnel helping fight the Los Angeles, California wildfires.

Inmates are there voluntarily and paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, with additional pay provided during emergencies.

#fire

Mexico Has Deployed its Firefighters to Aid in The Los Angeles Fires

Mexico sent firefighters to California to help with the Los Angeles fires.

#wildfire #fire #firefighters #mexico

2/3+ blame
-Denials of healthcare coverage
-Profits made by health insurance companies

1/2+ blame
-Wealth or income inequality

For the killing of UHC ceo.

1000+ respondents, december 12-16 2004
Amerispeak Omnibus
NORC at Univ of Chicago

#luigimangione #healthcare

www.norc.org/content/dam/...

As Texas swelters, local rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will soon be nullified Gov. Greg Abbott approved a law this week that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin’s and Dallas’ mandated water breaks.

Greg Abbott approves elimination of water breaks for construction workers.

House Bill 2127 was passed by the Texas Legislature during this year’s regular legislative session. Abbott signed it Tuesday.

#texas #construction #workers

What US Insurance Companies Aren’t Telling You | Informer YouTube video by VICE

"We had full reign on adjusting what they would actually have to pay.

If they settled, we're paid on commission through a fee structure... we would get 15-20% of that as a fee.

If we were to settle a lower amount for them, we would get less in fees,... what our commission is based on"

#healthcare

1950s Operation Wetback deportations

"While it might have temporarily slowed illegal immigration, Operation Wetback did nothing to curb the need for cheap Mexican labor in the United States or reduce unemployment in Mexico as its planners had promised."

#immigrants #deport #economy

Millions of Mexican Americans Were Deported in the 1930s. Are We About to Repeat This ‘Ethnic Cleansing’? <blockquote><br /><strong><em>Nearly 2 million Mexican Americans, more than half US citizens, were deported without due process during the Great Depression, reminiscent of what...

1930s Mexican Repatriation deportation

'Deportations also appear to have harmed the local economy. Far from protecting jobs for white Americans, the repatriation of Mexicans "may have further increased unemployment and depressed wages"'

#immigrants #deport #economy

36x the 2nd place country in school shootings, 2018

2024 numbers are in the 300s

#schoolshootings #guns #number1

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Almost 1 /day

#schoolshooting #guns #number1

k12ssdb.org/all-shootings

Sicko YouTube video by YouTube Movies

#healthcare #corps #ceos

⚠️ BREAKING:

CDC's wastewater surveillance program shows H5N1 bird flu positive wastewater in 11 states.

2024 UHC spent almost $6million lobbying.

2024 Health sector spent over $500million lobbying.

These are expenditures before their profit margin is calculated.
And it does not include all lobbying expenditures.

#healthcare #corps #lobbying

www.opensecrets.org/industries/l...

Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.

Slavery continues in the United States under the guise of "prison labour"

“Laws popped up that made it easier and easier for criminal legal institutions to continue to literally capture and extract the labor of the very same people whose labor was extracted under chattel slavery,” #opdeatheaters

Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion Annually, New Study Shows "Our study is actually conservative, because it doesn't factor in the lives saved among underinsured Americans," study author Alison Galvani from the the Yale School of Public Health told Newsweek.

US Healthcare could save billions while providing better outcomes.
2020, it's much worse now.

#healthcare #corps

90% of Americans blame Corporate Executives for Healthcare System problems

91% blame Health Insurance companies

91% blame pharma companies

#healthcare #corps #ceos

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🚨This is AMAZING: Watch this elderly woman DESTROY a young right wing YouTuber on his weak sauce immigration talking points.

Absolutely brilliant.
H/T @thetnholler.bsky.social

US could have saved 338,000 lives from Covid with universal healthcare, study finds Report’s author says people died because US healthcare ‘leaves millions without adequate access to medical treatment’

The US could have saved 300k+ lives from covid with universal healthcare....

#healthcare #covid

70% support taking strong action on climate change

62% support a Medicare for All-style healthcare system

61% support ending arms sales to Israel

60% support stronger gun laws

More than 50% support raising the minimum wage to $17 / hr

- @benandjerrys.bsky.social

85% of Americans support access to abortion

79% support funding for the development of permanently affordable housing

76% support LGBTQ rights

75% support reducing the cost of prescription drugs

70% support making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share of taxes
...
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the link is 2019 data summarized nicely.

Why Tariffs Won’t Save Manufacturing YouTube video by NowThis Impact

This combined with Tariffs will skyrocket inflation for related goods and services, like we've never seen before.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqX...