Public Health — February 20, 2025 – John Agliata

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THE DAILY UPDATE

Feeling calm? Peaceful? Secure? Serene? Let me blow up that illusion right now.

When I hear someone with more than three decades of medical experience in the public health arena say in a call that he’s never seen anything like what he’s seeing now and sounds alarm bells about exactly how fucked up things are getting thanks to our Old New Old-Man President, I listen intently.

First, a disclaimer: As I have repeatedly said anywhere and everywhere I talk about the Orange Ass, do not mistake anything I say or believe for partisan politics! I have no affinity for the left any more than I have for the right and no affinity for the right any more than I have for the left. They both suck. Hard. And no, I don’t think Grandpa Joe did a great job being a leader, any more than I would say any freaking 80-year-old could be a good leader of anything except perhaps the Sunday card game at the senior living community. Are we clear? Good.

The Orange Ass and his lackeys are putting our health at risk, and that is something I take personally. I have kids who I would rather not, ya know, die. So when I hear public health officials talk about how the situation is in a “free fall” and that the gubment has used a machete instead of a surgical instrument to trim away the fat in public sector health-official employment, I get a little angsty.

So dumb was the Orange Ass and his crew of billionaire buffoons that they fired people in the USDA responsible for H5N1 testing. H5N1 is the freaking bird flu, and if you haven’t noticed the price of eggs lately, we have a problem there. We also have, in H5N1, a disease that is starting to hop from animal to human. Sound familiar? The millions who have died from COVID can tell you that’s not a good thing.

Thankfully, some of the H5N1 experts have been called back to work, the ultimate “Oopsie” from someone who has no clue how to run the public sector any more than he had a clue how to run the numerous business initiatives he drove into bankruptcy.

Worse, Lackey and Vaccine Denier RFK Jr. is already fucking things up. Now in place as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, this dipshit announced he’s created a new commission to perform a deep study on childhood vaccine safety. Nothing is going to change this moron’s perspective about vaccines, and unless something changes, millions are going to die because of it. There is real fear that all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will be dismissed.

And worse still, the morons in the bayous of Louisiana’s state government, their noses well up the Orange Ass’s ass, have stopped supporting or promoting community-based vaccination programs, a practice that is starting to spread to other states.

There is reason for major concern, but yes, let’s please make sure we have Tiger Woods to the White House to talk about the merger of the two rival golfing organizations.

For. The. Love.

Something I’m grateful for today: Heat.

Something I’ve (ghost)written: Fostering a Collaborative Culture for Women Leaders in Insurance

Song of the Day: Whiskey Lullaby, by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss

Meaningful lyric from the S.O.T.D.:

We watched him drink his pain away
Little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough
To get her off his mind until the night …

Something good from today/yesterday: Watching Drake and Mizzou hoops win.

Something I’m looking forward to in the next seven days: Having two couples who are parents of kids I couch on my baseball team over for dinner and a murder=mystery-solving party.

Fat-Ass Update:

Starting weight: 230.6 on 2/12/25
Goal weight (for now): 199.9
Today’s weight 224.4, (-6.2)
Fat-ass burn-off remaining: 24.5 fat-ass pounds

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Public Health — February 20, 2025

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