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Okay, lets screw up the Center for Disease Control
The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is one of the most important parts of the federal government. They protect us from Asian flu, the Ebola virus, the Zika virus, and any and every biological threat that can cause a pandemic. Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services has appointed an idiot to head up the CDC. (See the highlighted bold line at the end of the following excerpt from Axios.) It seems that Trump and his appointed band of thugs are not missing a beat in destroying anything and everything that protects Americans.
"Georgia Department of Public Health commissioner Brenda Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HHS secretary Tom Price, a former Georgia congressman, announced the appointment this morning. She'll replace Tom Frieden, who led the agency during the Ebola and Zika virus crises. Anne Schuchat has been the acting CDC director since the end of the Obama administration.
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One story you might hear again: STAT notes one controversy from her term as health commissioner: Georgia Gov, Nathan Deal claimed in 2014 that "water kills the Ebola virus," and said he had learned that from a meeting with her. (She later said Ebola can only survive a few minutes in water, but "once it gets in your body, it's mean.")"
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One story you might hear again: STAT notes one controversy from her term as health commissioner: Georgia Gov, Nathan Deal claimed in 2014 that "water kills the Ebola virus," and said he had learned that from a meeting with her. (She later said Ebola can only survive a few minutes in water, but "once it gets in your body, it's mean.")"
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lots of booze. 
