I worked for one of those contractors for a while. We lost the contract because they found someone cheaper located in a state that they wanted to goose, as far as we could tell. The rules were occasionally a little frustrating and wasteful–such as since I was hired for a certain contract, I couldn’t work on anything else when we ran out of work, but I still had to be in the office. Fortunately, that didn’t happen very often, but when it did it was dumb.
Timely update:
You ever hear about Rocky Mountain spotted fever? It is a tic borne disease prevalent around the United States. Very deadly with a High mortality rate. You know who played a key role in finding an antibiotic for it? It was the RML that they just axed a lot of people in, that were in Hamilton Montana. These guys have no clue what they are doing to science in this country.
Time for an update on the screw worm!
Turns out, it is the fault of illegal immigrants! They have been crossing the border and bringing their infected cattle with them … or so claims the Treasury Secretary:
We don’t need it, we already have it. All the Prez has to do is say “emergency” and the USSC falls over and says “he doesn’t have to spend what Congress says he has to spend.”
Nice system you got there. Shame if something happened to it.
Time for another update on the screw worm!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed the presence of a flesh-eating New World screwworm in Texas on Wednesday.
Wow. It’s almost like Elon and DOGE hurt this country, rather than help it. Who could have guessed…