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The Cultural Revolution Continues, Today's Purge at U.S. Health Agencies [1]
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Date: 2025-04-01
This story is disgusting on so many levels. Not only purging deep expertise — just like Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution — but the way they did it. I’m sure the 19 year olds at DOGE are just rolling in LOLz tonight on Twitter. Here is a gift link: wapo.st/...
Here are some snips:
"At the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, some employees who were laid off were told to contact Anita Pinder, former director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, with discrimination complaints. Pinder died last year. " ... "What many had not anticipated was that senior leaders also would be removed through the administrative leave process or by proposed transfers. Some received letters that offered reassignment to agencies in remote locations such as Alaska or Billings, Montana. " ... "Top officials at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration were put on administrative leave or offered reassignment to the Indian Health Service. Other employees began receiving layoff notices or learned they had lost their jobs when their entry badges no longer worked Tuesday morning. At one HHS office in Rockville, Maryland, long lines grew as workers were screened to determine whether they were still employed."
Bastards. Incompetence does not explain this — only moronic cruelty. Just like Mao in his opium-addled dotage.
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