Wayyyy off topic but I want to share this very informative thread I found on Twitter for all my US peeps and any others affected by the E Coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce since this is “my lane”
We are verging on dangerous territory here folks. Rollbacks on regulations within organizations like the FDA are only going to cause more outbreaks and other public health disasters as time goes on. There’s a reason we don’t normally see these “drop everything” warnings from the CDC, and it’s because these outbreaks usually aren’t that bad. And they aren’t that bad because as a developed nation we have protocols in place to prevent this from happening. But I want y’all to understand how much of a big deal this is. We’re loosing effective antibiotics at an alarming rate. And until politicians start listening to us scientists out here who are literally screaming to do SOMETHING, nothing is going to change. I see many people chastising the CDC for “banning romaine lettuce but not guns”. And yes while I agree gun violence is a major public health crisis in this country, it’s not the CDC’s fault they can’t do any research on the issue. All their funding comes from the government, and while the NRA and other pro gun lobbiests have their hands up the asses of our politicians, the CDC is never going to get the funding needed to research gun violence. The CDC and the FDA are not the bad guys here. They are trying to help us, and our president and his administration is hell bent on destroying all of that. To anyone who thinks politics doesn’t matter, that their vote is meaningless, that ignore the happenings in politics because typical political issues don’t affect them, I can guarantee you, your apathy will eventually come back and bite you in the ass. It may even get you infected with E. Coli.
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