I wake to all this utter horseshite about NOAA, the CDC, etc and I'm terrified we're going to lose all public access to scientific data. If they think big business could make a profit on it, it looks like they could lock it up. They just have to declare it "harmful to US prosperity". US corporate prosperity, that is. Hell I almost took a job at NOAA eons ago, so this hurts. I'm even seeing fear even over on r/bioinformatics "PubMed, NCBI, NIH and the new US administration" with a shoutout to you guys. Even the pros are worried.
I'm a 60+ geek with multiple poorly understood chronic health conditions, so I rely on a lot of this data. I'm already worried about losing ACA health insurance (or having it become unaffordable). And worse, I'm female. Unmarried and childfree, I'm probably the most hated and most useless of females to our new gov't leaders. I'm certainly unhireable in today's youth-loving, brogrammer culture. Losing access to scientific data would be the last straw. We cannot allow this to happen.
The only positive things I've seen so far this morning have been in this sub. Hat's off to you guys and gals or whatever you want to be! Maybe I'll identify as an axolotl today in protest of our gov't trying to tell anyone what they can and cannot do with their own bodies. We're getting closer and closer to turning this country into a scary, extreme, right-wing, fundamentalist Christian state. I don't want us to regress back to the dark ages. Thanks for fighting the good fight. I've only got 70 TB here so I don't really qualify as a hoarder (yet), but I'm behind you all the way.