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Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cruise-ship-inspectors-layoffs-outbreaks-norovirus/
10:35 AM · May 7, 2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T14:35:59.307Z
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
Ocelot II
(131,123 posts)dalton99a
(95,134 posts)Lovie777
(23,574 posts)Texin
(2,865 posts)THEY.WANT.PEOPLE.TO.DIE.
(preferably those on the poorer side)
To me it seems very likely that Trump and his billionaire/Heritage buddies are purposefully trying to cull the herd, and RFK Jr. is the blade of the proverbial scythe
GiqueCee
(4,632 posts)... there's a quote out there somewhere of some Republican uttering that very idea: Culling the herd.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a disease for which there is only one remedy. FIRE HIS EVIL ASS!
popsdenver
(2,559 posts)thoroughly believe that Trump/Republicans action/in-actions during COVID resulted in the deaths of an ADDITIONAL 500,000 deaths in the U.S. and the statistics, (Per Capita), bear that out.......
The Republican's cuts in Health Care, Food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, as well as their Anti-vax mentality is aimed at culling our nation's population, much like Putin has done in Russia............
mucifer
(25,718 posts)Initech
(109,162 posts)RFK Jr should be spending the rest of his worthless life in maximum security prison for this.
haele
(15,563 posts)You know, "Survival of the Fittest". Good Genes.
Strong White Males smart enough to be rich, whether through winning the parents lottery, grifting, outright theft or murder, the hard work of networking, or finally - pure luck.
Because Good Luck obviously comes from having Good Genes while being White enough and Male enough.
And it's important to realize that if humans want to keep a healthy gene pool, there's a moral mandate to just let Nature take its course killing off all the degenerates with poor Genes through poverty, starvation, disease, and brutal assaults against them. Oh, and bad luck.
That's the current Eugenicist philosophy. Which has been eagerly adopted by the various Nationalist cults. I've heard that reasoning from supposedly same, moral people, presented as supposedly realistic "tough love" .
It's a wrapped variation on Lifeboat Ethics Theory. However, they're willing to avoid the occasional island and especially sink all other boats in their vicinity, even if it's a rescue boat with additional resources just to ensure they keep ownership of their own little lifeboat.
There is no cooperation, no curiosity, no diversity. It's imposed hierarchy or die.
GreenWave
(12,769 posts)tanyev
(49,599 posts)RainCaster
(13,855 posts)The health risks are too high.
popsdenver
(2,559 posts)but I suspect that travel by airlines has dropped, and the Republican owned/operated Media is just not talking about it.....
Skittles
(172,643 posts)nope
maxsolomon
(39,099 posts)One off the west coast of Costa Rica and the other through the Aegean. Both were fantastic.
There are cruises and there are cruises. The giant 2000-passenger floating cities? No thanks.
a kennedy
(36,278 posts)🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬
dalton99a
(95,134 posts)TommieMommy
(3,032 posts)spanone
(142,022 posts)dickthegrouch
(4,625 posts)They ALL need to be jailed.
yorkster
(3,938 posts)and Bluesky? Can't believe I haven't heard it before. Let 'em die, eh Bobby?
mahatmakanejeeves
(70,555 posts)CDC fires cruise ship sanitation inspectors despite being on corporate payroll
By Brady Knox
Published April 11, 2025 1:25pm ET
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yorkster
(3,938 posts)"all over the airwaves" to use an ancient phrase. Maybe it was and got lost in the daily fire hose of terrible news from the regime from hell.
Kid Berwyn
(24,962 posts)Im not a lawyer, just know a little about what it takes to be ship-shape and sea-worthy.
PCIntern
(28,552 posts)On what basis do you fire health inspectors en masse.
I really think theyre trying to winnow the population.
Theyre certainly trying to kill the cruise industry.
TheRickles
(3,501 posts)Grim Chieftain
(1,976 posts)But hey, the rules do not apply to this toxic administration.
BTW - Have you noticed how many news people are calling it "huntavirus"? Really? I even Googled it to see if there was another virus by that name. Nope.
The dumb just doesn't end.
Pinback
(13,637 posts)dickthegrouch
(4,625 posts)Juntas are proliferating as an epidemic.
Sadly it takes far fewer juntas to kill the entire planet than other types of infection.
sakabatou
(46,296 posts)No one will want to board one.
no_hypocrisy
(55,276 posts)Wholly unpredictable, eh?
BurnDoubt
(1,859 posts)Were hand-picked from Bedlam.
So, yeah
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not fooled
(6,747 posts)of the implications of what krasnov has done and is doing to dismantle the U.S.
A guy who helps with maintenance at my house is a dedicated "Know Nothing" about politics. Willfully ignorant, although the rise in fuel prices has gotten his attention. I make a point of letting him know just a few of the things the regime has done that hurt average 'Muricans, just in case he ever gets motivated to inform himself and vote (I'm not optimistic).
He's going on a cruise soon. I will make sure he is aware of this story and its implications for him.
maxsolomon
(39,099 posts)I thought Dutch-flagged MV Hondius was on a South Atlantic cruise, and the ship is stuck in the Azores while the virus burns through the passengers and crew.
Firing all the health inspectors is dumb AF but didn't have an impact on this event.
LisaM
(29,680 posts)It's been all over Canadian news, they've devoted hours to it. It's called the Andes strain, and it's a rare subset of the virus that can be transmitted from human to human. It also has a particularly long gestation period and the symptoms can appear to be other things.
I don't know if sanitation of the ship would have mattered in this case, but I also think cruise ships should be thoroughly inspected. It's madness not to do that.
LeftInTX
(34,808 posts)Maybe it's already there.
It was a one way cruise from Argentina, to Antarctic region. I have no idea where it's final destination is.
Jose Garcia
(3,537 posts)rickford66
(6,089 posts)How many millions will die this time ?
UpInArms
(55,281 posts)Passages
(4,464 posts)OMGWTF
(5,205 posts)kimbutgar
(27,506 posts)The last cruise I took was in September of 2019 and not long after we had the pandemic. I havent been on a plane since the 🍊🐖💩 resumed his reign of terror and messed up the safety of our aviation travel. I do not trust this government and reading that ghoulish rfk jr is firing knowledgeable scientists and doctors is scary as hell for our health.
Ford_Prefect
(8,653 posts)Norbert
(7,844 posts)Having people die on his watch is a small step.
LoisB
(13,346 posts)Buddyzbuddy
(2,829 posts)mucifer
(25,718 posts)2na fisherman
(354 posts)What if a foreign adversary decided to unleash a deadly pathogen on all US ports of call? I makes sense for the government to check for bugs on ships out of desire to reduce harm and suffering due to natural non-lethal illnesses. It doesn't take a genius terrorist to make a bug for which there is no cure or vaccine and spread it on purpose. By the time our understaffed CDC could respond, it would be too late for the millions of casualties that would make the amount of Covid deaths seem small.
PatrickforB
(15,510 posts)FakeNoose
(42,241 posts)They aren't freeloaders, and most are born-here Americans. Why would Chump want to kill them off?
Maybe because they don't own their own private jets and yachts?
Blue Owl
(59,542 posts)All of Dump's appointed cabinet members are destroying the USA from within. Every goddamned one.
Joinfortmill
(21,578 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,587 posts)It's MASA. Make America SICK again.
pansypoo53219
(23,158 posts)its fucking reagan again.
Emile
(43,122 posts)is monitoring the cruise ship passengers who came back to the US?
The Wizard
(13,835 posts)to cull the herd of Social Security recipients. Lots of seniors go on cruises.
The Wizard
(13,835 posts)across the Pacific on a troop ship to Vietnam. 5000 GIs living in close quarters, bunks stacked 4 deep. The only sickness we experienced was from a storm our second day at sea. Lots of vomit from sea sickness.
mgardener
(2,393 posts)Of things done by administration officials actions that will ' not age well.'
This just got added.
Kennedy has done some stupid things