Rothmus 🏴(@Rothmus):At the onset of the dark ages (COVID), the FDA required prior approval before hospitals or universities could use COVID tests. Labs with working kits waited while the CDC sent contaminated ones that produced junk results and left most state labs with no usable option. Greninger was ready by late January and Chu found community spread in February from leftover flu samples, but regulators stopped both from using those tests or reporting the findings until the outbreak was already spreading. Bureaucracy 📈

2026.09.02 22:30

At the onset of the dark ages (COVID), the FDA required prior approval before hospitals or universities could use COVID tests. Labs with working kits waited while the CDC sent contaminated ones that produced junk results and left most state labs with no usable option. Greninger was ready by late January and Chu found community spread in February from leftover flu samples, but regulators stopped both from using those tests or reporting the findings until the outbreak was already spreading. Bureaucracy 📈

Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus

2026.09.02 02:00

OSHA tried to seize vaccination power over 84 million workers by calling a virus that exists everywhere a “workplace hazard”. Biden announced the mandate in September 2021 and OSHA issued it 2 months later as an Emergency Temporary Standard, a fast track tool built for collapsing equipment and chemical leaks. Lawsuits hit immediately, until the Supreme Court finally struck it 6-3 on January 13, 2022. A daily risk everyone faces was never a distinct workplace danger Congress gave OSHA authority to regulate.