Join the Dissident Middle-Aged Angelas Medical Freedom Anti-Lockdown Movement
All hail Queen Angela Perryman, my fellow 47-year-old Angela who refuses to be cowed by virological disinformation spread by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., despite the Nebraska biocontainment unit she finds herself incarcerated in. Her crime was going on vacation and getting exposed to an emerging virus through no fault of her own. Actually, she also had the audacity to question whether the government had the right to detain her indefinitely with no due process based on invented risks that hantavirus somehow magically became pandemic flu overnight. As a result, Kennedy just extended her forced quarantine, where she has been confined since May.
I have never empathized as deeply with another Angela, who appears completely fed up with Kennedy’s outrageous government overreach, and rightfully so. She is being imprisoned by the federal government because she was exposed to a virus that is politically inconvenient to this administration. Her completing quarantine at home poses no risk to anyone.
If unelected officials like Kennedy can lock up Angela Perryman on the pretext of public health and incarcerate her based on Andes virus transmission risks cooked up by anti-vax quacks on X, they can do it to any of us. I am with Angela in my belief that you should not give up your civil liberties over some made-up politically-motivated horseshit about viruses.
Bundibugyo ebolavirus still on track to be historically bad
In good news, no new cases in Uganda. In bad news, things are very bad in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In worse news, people are already forgetting that it’s even going on. This is already a catastrophe, but it can get exponentially worse.
Biosecurity Brooke Rollins has totally defeated* H5N1
*Surrendered to by default, since there’s barely any testing
The war on screwworm got me thinking: how is the war on bird flu going? There are all these positive cows in Idaho! The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is celebrating National Dairy Month and they are celebrating by not mentioning this troublesome subtype at all. I wonder how much they are even monitoring it, considering the cuts to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS). If APHIS isn’t around to inspect herds, they might not detect them. They might not do very much testing at all! And if they don’t test, well…you might not detect widespread H5N1 infection of mammals until it’s too late. I’m writing more about this but I think there’s H5N1 in a lot of the nation’s dairy farms. It makes me wonder how much H5N1 might have gotten into the nation’s dairy farm workers.
If I worked at a dairy or poultry farm with an H5N1 outbreak, I would certainly be strongly disincentivized to report it, considering one consequence would be having ICE show up and send everyone to detention or deport them. Given what has happened to Angela Perryman, I think at this point anyone should worry about the risk H5N1 presents to their civil rights as well as their health and food security.
Anyway, there are a whole lot of infected mammals besides cows and that’s concerning too. I am worried that Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins’ biosecurity plan (in this sense, biosecurity means offer people money to make various upgrades that reduce but don’t prevent H5N1 and don’t test very much is creating a massive flu risk. She’s pretending this magically disappeared because USDA doesn’t have the capacity for detection any longer. She’s pretending she knows how to use a microscope. I know this is not anything anyone wants to talk about, so I go off about it for like 15 minutes. Just because a risk isn’t visible doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In this case, I think Rollins is pretending that USDA is better than ever, while in reality, its capacity is as destroyed as every other agency across the federal government. And this is a pretty goddamn catastrophic risk.
Don’t forget to comment to OMB on Russell Vought’s attempts to seize control of federal spending by July 13!
I am celebrating Pride month by making daily (or sporadic, time will tell) to express my bisexual pride by being inclusive of diverse people and treating them and their ideas equitably. I am therefore living my DEI Catholic values by engaging this Christofascist white nationalist accountant, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. He is attempting to bestow vast powers to control trillions in taxpayer funds upon himself, in hopes of destroying federal funding for science, services like nutritional assistance, “DEI” things like hospitals and schools, and basic infrastructure like roads and power. He also plans to install political censors throughout the government to ensure that taxpayer funds only support the President’s political priorities, just like I predicted he would last year!
So we need to stop this and get Russell Vought out of a position to unilaterally assume control of the US federal budget and that is by sending a comment to the federal government before July 13!!! When you comment, the government is required by law to read and respond to it should any new policy be challenged in court. Enough comments might stop this from moving forward altogether, because every comment is an objection from an American taxpayer who deserves a say in how their money is spent. For example, it shouldn’t be taken away from them if they are not a political priority.
I’ll be providing more information on how to write a comment about this in the coming days but in the meantime, read Elizabeth Ginexi’s great piece about how this will impact your community.
COMMENT HERE:
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001
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