The NY Times reports that Bobby Jr is closing down research into sexually transmitted diseases. Is it supposed to be some sort of woke, deep state, waste, fraud and abuse? Do they think that there are companies out there just dying to get into the highly profitable clap tracking business?
Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The United States has just lost its ability to detect it.
Among the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees fired on Tuesday were 77 scientists who, among other work, gathered samples of gonorrhea and other S.T.I.s from labs nationwide, analyzed the genetic information for signs of drug resistance, and readied the samples for storage at a secure facility.
No other researchers at the agency have the expertise, or the software, to continue this work. The abrupt halt has stranded about 1,000 samples of gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted pathogens that had not yet been processed, and perhaps dozens more headed to the agency.
There are as many as 30 freezers full of samples that now have no custodians, said one senior C.D.C. official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
I honestly don’t get this. I have to assume they just don’t think it matters if we study diseases or maybe that if it’s important some drug company will pick up the slack. But they won’t. That’s not what they do. In fact, nobody will do it except government and they’ve decided it’s not even important enough to phase out over time, to at least preserve the work that’s being done currently. It is just abruptly shuttered, everything ruined, no more science for you! I guess Bobby Jr thinks if we all stop eating processed food and seed oils we won’t get gonorrhea.