The Greatest Threat - part the eighth

The Office of Data Integrity slinks along. Today (dead trees version) that Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor) have killed a significant source of epidemiologic data. Good on Elon. Likely that these data only matter to the poor Black folks of South Africa; not that they matter.

With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, the Demographic and Health Surveys were the only sources of information in many countries about maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators.

The surveys collected data in 90 low- and middle-income nations, which then used the information to set health benchmarks at the local, national and global levels, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals adopted by member countries of the United Nations.

Get rid of data collection, and the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts can bleat, "but, but it's only
your opinion, and you're very, very wrong, and the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts are so, so right!! Party like it's 1829!!"

"It's really challenging for me to understand how you could implement thoughtful programs in public health and monitor progress toward strategic goals if you don't have the kind of data that are available from the D.H.S.," Win Brown, a demographer at the University of Washington, said.

"You can't keep track of what's going on, you can't form strategies, you can't make adjustments based on how your data are changing," he added.
[my emphasis]

How can one truly use those words in the same thought as Kim Don-Felon and his Merry Band of Fascists (so says this Tesla investor)? One can't, of course. Those two are just so coarse.