Post by Mitchell HolmanPost by Bradley K. Sherman| Laboratories in a national network of 58 facilities
| responding to the spread of bird flu were notified Friday
| that 25 percent of the staff in a central program office
| coordinating their work were fired in the Trump
| administration's mass layoffs of federal employees.
| ...
<https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/16/trump-administration-firings-
bird-flu-response-00204542>
Senator Brainworm doesn't care, all viruses
are a local problem now.
Measles continues to spread as Texas
outbreak rises to 48 cases
Feb 14
In just two weeks, an outbreak in northwest
Texas jumped from two cases among unvaccinated
children in Gaines County to 48 people across
four counties, according to the Texas Department
of State Health Services. All cases are among
people, mostly children, who werent vaccinated
or had unknown vaccination status. More than a
dozen people have been hospitalized for measles
as of Friday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/15/measles-outbreak-
cases-texas-new-mexico/78784825007/
Have they restarted the Trump Death Count yet?
--
Exxon's 'Universe of Energy' tends to the peculiar rather than the
humorous ... After [an incomprehensible film montage about wind and sun and
rain and strip mines and] two or three minutes of mechanical confusion, the
seats locomote through a short tunnel filled with clock-work dinosaurs.
The dinosaurs are depicted without accuracy and too close to your face.
"One of the few real novelties at Epcot is the use of smell to
aggravate illusions. Of course, no one knows what dinosaurs smelled like,
but Exxon has decided they smelled bad.
"At the other end of Dino Ditch ... there's a final, very addled
message about facing challengehood tomorrow-wise. I dozed off during this,
but the import seems to be that dinosaurs don't have anything to do with
energy policy and neither do you."
-- P. J. O'Rourke, "Holidays in Hell"
