really happy to have you here. I don't know how much you've ever thought about rabies before,

but I think everybody knows enough about rabies to know that you just, you just really don't want

to get it, right? Rabies is a catastrophe for any animal that gets it, whether it's a raccoon or a fox

or a bat or a dog or anything. But it's also a catastrophe for any human who

gets it. If you get bit by a rabid animal, it is not just a bad metaphor. Rabies will almost

always kill you. It will kill any human who contracts it if that person does not get it treated quickly enough. I mean, it's safe to say

it is never a good time to get rabies. But if you are going to get rabies at some time in your life,

do please try not to get it while Donald Trump is president of the United States. Because in his infinite wisdom, among all of the

other things he has done as president of the United States, Donald Trump has now, for some reason,

broken the United States government to the extent that we're no longer doing rabies testing

for the country anymore in the federal government.

There are some state public health labs that can do some rabies testing of various kinds,

but it's the federal government. It's the CDC. It has always been the CDC that is the gold

standard lab for this kind of thing. It's the CDC that confirms rabies infections.

It's the CDC that tracks them nationwide.

I remember we had a big outbreak of rabies nationwide.

Last year, it was the CDC's tracking data that showed that.

It's the CDC that does all the high-end and complicated testing

around terrible and rare diseases like rabies. And you can still

see some of that legacy today of what the United States used to be capable of before Donald Trump

took a wrecking ball to even this part of the U.S. government. If you go to the CDC website on

rabies today, there's like, you know, CDC rabies page. It's a very,

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