All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

[MysticOracle]

Looks like /r/datahoarder was backing it up just in time:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iekywr/cdc_we...

[pesus]

There is nothing good that come from this. We are headed for disaster, especially if bird flu or something else starts spreading quickly enough.

[sixothree]

Like the tb outbreak happening now? The good thing is nobody will know it’s happening.

[grantmuller]

Like a penetration test or a security test, you don't know where you're out of compliance until you perform an audit; you don't normally shut down your site in the meantime.

The correct way to comply with this is to suggest that you don't believe that you're out of compliance, and to request specific guidance on which particular datasets aren't in compliance that should be removed.

[Havoc]

Onward into the new dark age

[jaggederest]

Reminds me of A Canticle for Leibowitz.

[Arubis]

Why does nobody refuse to follow these orders? They’re being issued by someone who flagrantly doesn’t follow the rules.

[aaomidi]

They’ll just be replaced with someone who does follow the order

[madmonk]

I wrote a webapp to pull your local covid wastewater data from cdc data. It's still working, so they either left their feeds in place or haven't gotten to them yet.

https://madmonk13.github.io/covid_ww_levels/

[LargeWu]

This is what fascism looks like.

[jeffbee]

https://www.census.gov/ is also offline.

[borski]

Is it? Seems up to me.

[edit] Oh, I see, the actual 2020 census data is down: https://www.census.gov/2020results

Says for maintenance.

[cozzyd]

Is the census data even available by other means nowadays? The census is a core constitutional requirement of the federal government.

[Eduard]

not for me

[fergbrain]

Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?

[SpicyLemonZest]

I think it’s pretty reasonable that it might take more than 2 days to review all CDC datasets for whether they “inculcate or promote gender ideology”. If the administration wanted to avoid interruptions in access they should have provided a longer timeline.

[tim333]

It does say "temporarily offline" while they adjust the transgender settings.

[johnthescott]

why would the whole site be taken offline?

[tasuki]

I read the beginning of the executive order:

> Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers. This is wrong.

This... isn't necessarily something I'd disagree with. This being the Trump administration, I suppose there might be some skeletons hiding later on in the text.

They also talk about the distinction between "sex" and "gender". You're still free to choose any gender you like!