Thesis: Tangerine 2.0 Is Staffed Solely By... Malignant Incompetents: CDC Dumps Hundreds In Shutdown -- Now Rehires Them. Damn.

Protecting America (and the planet) from new pandemics. . . yep, that sounds like the kind of work that one ought not haphazardly and casually. . . gut. [My earlier 2025 backgrounder may be found here.]

But. . . this is the time of the second Manchurian Cantaloupe -- and his dim-bulb minions. Stupidity and cruel mistake-making is the stock in trade. Shutdown came with threats from Tangerine to dump federal workers. [He apparently thinks pandemic abatement is non-essential.] Then someone whispered to him about the backlash, should people start falling ill, or dying by the tens of thousands. . . this winter. What would he do, then?

And so, this is all courtesy the UK's Independent:

. . .The Trump administration is scrambling to rehire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staffers that were let go as part of the president’s promise to cull the federal workforce in response to the government shutdown.

The firings on Friday were part of the more than 4,000 government jobs cut by the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post. Many of those let go were working to combat critical diseases, including measles and Ebola.

After the New York Times and other outlets reported on the firings of the CDC staff, a federal health official told the outlet that many of those laid off had been terminated in error, and would be brought back. . . .

Clearly not the sharpest tools in the shed. Damn -- elect a clown; expect a circus.

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