Under the new health agency, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to lay off at least 10,000 people from federal agencies to cut costs. The current administration has made good on that promise and fired staff who were working on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s bird flu response.
According to the American Veterinary Medical Association and a source familiar with the situation, many employees learned of as they attempted to enter office buildings and were denied access, are part of the administration’s effort to shrink the federal government. Accoridng to a report by Reuters, among those fired were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, according to the source.
An employee at the Center for Veterinary Medicine said almost all the administrative staff were terminated, along with staff on the policy, legal, and external communications teams. Managers were also eliminated in the office of the center’s director, said the employee, who recently took part in a deferred resignation program that reduced the government’s headcount.-Reuters
The FDA did not respond to a request for comment.
Kennedy Wants To Stop Culling Birds For Natural Immunity
Even with a “fully” staffed HHS and FDA, the solutions have done nothing to slow the progression and transmission of bird flu, and all of the people were highly ineffective at slowing COVID-19. It seems that no ideas are often better than too many bad ideas.
Culling has always seemed like a terrible idea. However, the ruling class fiercely advocates it as one of the only ways to prevent the bird flu from eventually transmitting to humans. RFK Jr. has said he’d like to possibly end the culling process in favor of natural immunity. Others have suggested mass vaccination of birds as well.
New Bird Flu Strategy Prioritized “Vaccinations” Over Cullings
The cuts to the FDA are also likely to significantly disrupt efforts under way to develop bird flu testing infrastructure for aged artisan raw milk cheese, said Keith Poulsen, a veterinarian and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory who has been involved in the effort.
If the ruling class was going to “fix” the bird flu situation, they would have done it by now. There is nothing the rulers can do to limit the spread of a virus among wild animals. There’s a limit to the control the powers that shouldn’t be can exert.
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