Subject: Mushroom Theory of Communication
With federal health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under a temporary freeze on public communications, some data and publications have not been released on their normal schedule.
The agency published some regular weekly updates Friday but not others. It updated one page on the agency's website
about the overall activity of respiratory viruses across the nation and another that specifies how widely COVID-19, RSV and the flu are spreading.
But by mid-afternoon Friday, the agency had not yet updated others, including FluView, which tracks flu strains, medical visits, hospitalizations and deaths from the illness, as well as those detailing weekly flu vaccinations or weekly flu vaccinations or weekly COVID-19 vaccinations.
And on Thursday, the CDC failed to release the agency's weekly publication, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, marking the first time in decades the agency has not published the highly regarded mainstay of public health communication.
The current freeze on communications for all agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services has sparked alarm among public health experts. HHS includes the CDC as well as other major agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.

keep ‘em in the dark and shovel on the shit

Unconscionable. With dairy chickens being culled and herds of livestock increasingly being infected with H5N1 Avian flu, the stage is set for a mutation making human to human transmission increasingly possible.

Nothing says “negligence” more than putting the blinders on public health.