Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about the CDC,

Trump, and disinformation. The American Federation of Government Employees has released a statement,

and it will probably keep coming up in the news for a while, unless the Trump administration

heeds its call. The message coming from the union is clear. Stop and condemn the disinformation

about our members. In a message to its members informing them what their stance was,

AFGE Local 2883, said they wanted, quote,

a clear and unequivocal stance in condemning vaccine disinformation by CDC and HHS leadership.

Their leadership is critical in reinforcing public trust and ensuring that accurate science-based

information prevails.

This condemnation is necessary to help prevent violence against scientists that may be incited

by such disinformation.

If you miss the news, CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia was targeted in an attack

that reporting suggests may have been influenced by vaccine disinformation. A police officer and

the attacker were killed. The union also told its members, quote, This tragedy was not random, and it compounds months of mistreatment, neglect, and vilification that CDC staff have endured.

The deliberate targeting of CDC through this violent act is deeply disturbing, completely unacceptable, and an attack on

every public servant. Early reports indicate the gunman was motivated by vaccine disinformation,

which continues to pose a dangerous threat to public health and safety. Some of you were trapped in various buildings

throughout campus well into the late evening hours, including the 90-plus children locked down

inside CDC's Clifton School. Those of us, not directly part of the lockdowns, watched in

fear for our colleagues as the events unfolded.

The terror, the uncertainty, and the trauma of what happened, as well as what could have happened, are still very present.

Fired but fighting, which is a group of former CDC employees, was even more pointed in their criticism when they released a statement calling for the resignations of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and OMB director Russell Vaught, saying, quote, Kennedy is directly responsible for the villainization of CDC's workforce

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