RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 doctors and scientists amid shutdown

KunsanVeteran · 2025-10-17T14:47:27-04:00

Vaccines - RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 doctors and scientists amid shutdown MSNBC’s Brandy Zadrozny... (43 replies).

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MSNBC’s Brandy Zadrozny reports that Health Secretary RFK Jr. fired more than 1,000 employees from the Department of Health and Human Services Friday night. The move comes as Trump’s health faces public scrutiny following his second routine medical appointment this year. Zadrozny discussed the developments on MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime.

They just don’t get and more incompetent, untrustworthy, or dishonest than Robert Junior. I guess that’s what endears him so to Demented Donnie!

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samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

OMG, how much more destruction is he capable of?

I checked it out on Google:

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There are no new, widespread Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layoffs officially scheduled for today, October 17, 2025, but some federal agencies have recently started issuing layoff notices, according to NPR. A small number of HHS employees were mistakenly issued layoff notices earlier this week, but the notices were part of an ongoing process that began with a major restructuring announced in March.
The major restructuring plan announced in March 2025 by HHS included the eventual layoff of approximately 10,000 full-time employees.
This restructuring is intended to save taxpayer money and streamline the department by reducing workforce and consolidating divisions.
Layoffs have already impacted several agencies, including the FDA, CDC, and NIH, and some of the workers have been officially separated from their positions as of July 2025.
The process is ongoing and subject to legal challenges and changing court decisions, which may affect the timing or scope of the layoffs, notes this NPR article.

KunsanVeteran · M

@samueltyler2 One of his most destructive actions that is lesser known is that he slashed federal funds that support the waste water virus surveillance in our country. That surveillance is often our first indication of disease outbreaks.

I guess I should feel some sympathy for him because of his years of drug addiction but I don’t.

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@KunsanVeteran he is totally wacko! I do not feel sorry for him at all. I worked very closely with CDC and NIH. True things could have been improved, but what he has done will take to probably decades to fix, of even then.

KunsanVeteran · M

@samueltyler2 Doubtless.

I think what most don’t understand when they talk about “herd immunity” is that it’s simply breaking the chain of transmission by preventing the contact of susceptible people through the significant amount of people who are already immune either by having contracted the disease themselves (native acquired immunity) or through immunization.

For there to be herd immunity the level of immunity has to be quite high in the population (varies with the particular disease but 90 — 95% rates are typical).

When we are dealing with communities of non-vaccinated (e.g. Mennonites), these are severe outbreaks all primed and ready…. I know that you understand all this, but many people don’t realize that “what’s the harm of a few unvaccinated kids” and Florida revoking vaccine mandates are setting the stage for entirely preventable disease epidemics and deaths.

How ignorant so many can be having just had a pandemic that was so, so much worse than it would have been had they masked, hand washed, socially distanced, etc. until those Pfizer & Moderna vaccines had become available.

Lessons unlearned so very quickly…

😣

samueltyler2 · 80-89, M

@KunsanVeteran i spent most of my medical career in preventive medicine. I ran free clinics to provide immunizations to anyone who wanted to come in, documented or not. I worked with CDC on several outbreaks, i was part of the team that developed protocols to deal with all cause disaster. What is happening in this country is a disgrace.

KunsanVeteran · M

@samueltyler2 I cannot agree with you more. I am ashamed that so many of our colleagues aren’t saying and doing more!

Frankly I am shocked that so many in this country are so easily swayed to greed, bigotry, jealousy, lawlessness…

I never thought I or my children or my children’s children would face this…

But here we are…

KunsanVeteran · M

@samueltyler2 As we’re both know: immunizations aren’t swayed by immigration status. They are “DEI” by definition!