I suspect that she blinded RFKJr with science. Several other top-level (and probably well-qualified) staffers immediately resigned. 
From the CNN article:
Shortly after Monarez’s departure was confirmed Wednesday, three other top CDC officials also announced that they were leaving. Dr. Debra Houry, the agency’s chief medical officer and deputy director of programs and science; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; and Dr. Dan Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, were agency veterans whom staffers said were well-liked and trusted.
NBC says that the resignations also included Dr. Jen Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology. This is not good.
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I was just at the grocery store, and Halloween candy is already out. And we wonder why America has an obesity problem.
I’ve been seeing giant Halloween decorations at Costco and Home Depot for around a month now.
Blaming Halloween candy being available 2 months in advance of Halloween for obesity seems dumb. I’d think for most people it would be a substitute for some other candy.
I don’t think it’s a primary cause, I think the fact that people think it is reasonable is a symptom of how badly people eat.
This will be controversial in Quebec but would be more controversial if it happened in a US state?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/public-prayer-ban-quebec-1.7619985
Conservatives reading the headline: WHAT AN OUTRAGE! FREEDOMS!!! !!! !!!
Conservatives reading the rest of the story: Oh, only Islamists. Definitely should be banned.
“Seeing THOSE people praying in the streets, in public parks, is not something we want in Quebec,” Legault said in December, saying he wanted to send a “very clear message to THOSE Islamists.”
I’ve added the bolded words.
“When we want to pray, we go to a church, we go to a mosque, but not in public places. And yes, we will look at the means where we can act legally or otherwise.”
I’ve bolded these already-there words
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That would be extremely unconstitutional in the US, and I would fear for the safety of politicians that tried to promote such a measure.
Québec’s current prohibitions of public employees’ wearing religious symbols/garb on the job (at least the “can’t wear crosses” part of it) would likely bring out the torches, tar, and feathers down here in Gilead.
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I saw that article. that’s absurd. You can’t pray in public? What’s the problem they’re fixing? I get that they don’t want religious symbols for public/govt employees and actually agree with that. But praying in public?
Last year I took some students fishing. We stopped at Bass Pro on the way home. As we’re leaving, buddy asked us to stop for a bit. He pulls out a prayer mat, throws it down in a corner of the Bass Pro front entrance, and did his thing while we waited. Nobody batted an eye. I fail to see what the problem is, it’s not forcing a religion on someone.
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“I gotta problem with them praying. So, I’m fixing it.”
Easy.
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“Don’t you understand? When you pray like that, you are saying, Directly To My Face, that MY religion is inferior to yours. I will not stand for your discrimination of MY religion. (Sigh), if only you’d convert to Christianity – a REAL one – we wouldn’t have this problem to solve.”
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I wonder if we need a “non-Americans say the darndest things” thread.
I know this claim was controversial 10 years ago, but at this point I think it’s just a fact. Doesn’t matter if he realizes it or not.
I don’t think we’ve had the head of state of an ally come out and say it before.
Well sure that’s a first. Not sure it matters in the overall scheme of things.
We still have allies?
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At first glance this might not seem political, but when you consider that thinking about it quickly turns into a discussion about a philosophy on the application of law…
It could be enough for it to have a significant number of UK users, or to have the UK as a target market.
It seems that 4chan could simply block UK users.
True, but consider it in an abstract manner.
You are an American. You have a website. You have no contact, presence, or business dealings with people in the 190+ jurisdictions beyond the United States other than the fact that your website can be accessed by anyone via the internet.
At what point do you become liable for knowing and complying with the potentially conflicting and burdensome laws and decrees from those 190+ jurisdictions?
I’m not saying that’s quite the case for 4chan, mind you. But we do have some NSFW content here on GoA. Does that mean that GoA is exposed to demands from Ofcom…or does the internet finally become throroughly balkanized through a mess of imperfect geography blocks?
I think…not certain but I think…some of the EU’s cookie and privacy laws are supposed to extend to anyplace that EU people can access. Which is why you see all those cookie popups on sites that don’t need them necessarily for where they’re based.