CDC's Cruise Ship Inspectors Laid Off

Friday, April 11, 2025

All of the full-time employees in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vessel Sanitation Program are now off the job, multiple officials tell CBS News ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 02:30 PM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

CDC has fired the people the cruise industry pays to track whether cruise ships are vectors (again) for global epidemics. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru ...

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-- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) April 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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"The steep cuts to the program's inspectors baffled CDC officials since the small team's staff is not paid for by taxpayer dollars."

Another Kryptonite thread for Republicans.

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 10:40 AM

The Florida tourism industry can't wait to send people off on filthy cruise ships.

Dysentery for all!

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-11 10:45 AM

Florida is a ---- hole.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-11 01:25 PM

We have TB and measles on the rise due to the huge hole left in the border from 4 years ago. Now you want to cry over "a small team who inspects ships TWICE a year"

That's just really special.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-11 03:05 PM

"due to the huge hole left in the border from 4 years ago."

Don't be a dumfuq.

The outbreak is centered in a no-vax enclave.

#5 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-11 03:08 PM

From CDC records: www.cdc.gov

The US is only developed country in the world without universal healthcare, so the ruling class wants Americans sick because hospitals are a cash cow. The wealthy profit from the illnesses and medical debts of the masses. Countries with universal healthcare practice prevention through vaccinations and inspections of restaurants, food processing plants, or passenger ships to preserve their taxpayer-funded health systems. These protocols also provide for the well-being of their citizens. The US is just the opposite.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-11 03:19 PM

"We have TB and measles on the rise due to the huge hole left in the border from 4 years ago."

You say the same thing about immigrants that Nazi propaganda said about immigrants.

Because you agree with the Nazis.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 03:35 PM

Excellent point.

The current Elitist policies are all pointed toward making every aspect of American Life as BAD as our privatized healthcare system.

Privatized schools, prisons, among eventually ALL Gov Services the People long ago voted to be For the People will be run by bean counting, morals, freedom, and justice-free, elitist Oligarchs.

Just as the German Industrialists did in the 1930's with the votes of rwing populist white nationalist Nazis and THEIR Cult Leader. (btw.... How did that werk out for them?)
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The history of the first 90 days of which reads just like it is the Playbook for what we are seeing now.

"Donald Trump's greedy actions parallel Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s"

www.yahoo.com

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"Here's A Timeline Of Hitler's First 53 Days In Office " Let Me Know If You Notice Anything Familiar

"The Nazis would use the electoral process of democracy to destroy democracy."

www.buzzfeed.com

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-11 03:36 PM

"Now you want to cry over "a small team who inspects ships TWICE a year""

So you think zero inspections is more than enough.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 03:38 PM

We have TB and measles on the rise due to the huge hole left in the border from 4 years ago.

lol.

We have had an immigration problem for 50 years. At least.

We are now having an increase in preventable diseases in America because of ignant arses like yourself.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-11 03:42 PM

They really should have been let go earlier.

Perhaps the replacements will be better.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-11 04:13 PM

We have had an immigration problem for 50 years. At least.

This is a rather unconvincing response, nothing has been on the same level as Biden's lack of enforcement of the border.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-11 04:15 PM

IAMRUNT, your child-raping hero killed Herman Cain at one of his superspreader klan rallies.

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-11 04:18 PM

You say the same thing about immigrants that Nazi propaganda said about immigrants.

US has sewage systems. Should the US not have sewage systems because Nazi's said the same things about them?

What about US sports? Should the US get rid of sports because Nazi's said the same thing about sports?

The Nazis were environmentalists. Should the US get rid of wildlife habitats, hydroelectric plants, vegetarians, and animal rights activists because Nazi's said the same thing?

What poor logic.

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-04-11 04:20 PM

#14

And you try SO hard to look smart...

www.columbia.edu

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-11 04:24 PM

"US has sewage systems. Should the US not have sewage systems because Nazi's said the same things about them?"

Nazis sent subhumans to concentration camps.

Should the US not send subhumans to concentration camps, just because the Nazis sent subhumans to concentration camps?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-11 04:28 PM

We have TB and measles on the rise due to the huge hole left in the border from 4 years ago. Now you want to cry over "a small team who inspects ships TWICE a year"

That's just really special.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You should go ahead and decide which democrat you'll blame when the cruise ship diseases break out in a couple years.

#17 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-11 07:10 PM

This is a rather unconvincing response, nothing has been on the same level as Biden's lack of enforcement of the border.

#12 | Posted by oneironaut

Biden's numbers were only slightly higher than the numbers in 2000. Who was president then?

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-11 07:11 PM

Fun fact: the costs of the inspections are paid for by the cruise lines.
So trump is making foreign businesses richer.
All this winning is wearing me out.

#19 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-11 07:59 PM

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