Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer does Pfizer

Editor's note: The reason why the controversial Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (also see The Informant at the Heart of the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was a Liability. So Federal Agents Shut Him Up) issued an emergency order over avian influenza is because Pfizer has large manufacturing interests in Kalamazoo, Michigan. This isn't capitalism despite what most consider is going on between Whitmer's office and Pfizer. This is capitalism captured by techno-feudalism that destroyed whatever people think "democracy" is. It is predatory techno-feudalism eviscerating what it means to be human. It's Pfizer's techno-fascist corporate profits vs muscle tissue in your upper arm. 

Gov. Whitmer Announces Pfizer Investing $750 Million to Expand U.S. Sterile Injectable Facility, Create 300 Jobs
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Here We Go Again: Gretchen Whitmer admin issues emergency executive order over avian influenza

Previous use of unilateral power resulted in lockdowns, business closures, mandated masks

By The Midwesterner Staff | May 6, 2024

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's administration has declared an "extraordinary animal health emergency" and imposed "the most comprehensive measures in the country" to combat highly pathogenic avian influenza. 

"Producers must immediately implement robust biosecurity practices and create emergency preparedness plans and this order starts to address these on-farm risks," Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Director Tim Boring said statement last week. 

"Implementing these measures must be the highest priority for every farm and agriculture worker," he said. "Working together, we can combat HPAI and reduce the long-term impacts on our dynamic food and agriculture industry."

The "Determination of Extraordinary Emergency, HPAI Risk Reduction Response Order" signed by Boring on Wednesday imposes a series of biosecurity practices on all Michigan dairy farms and commercial poultry operations.

Those measures include a biosecurity manager for every farm, a secure perimeter around poultry, cleaning and disinfection for people and vehicles, a log of all people and vehicles that enter farms, isolation of lactating cows until 30 days after the last HPAI case, and isolation of poultry "until such a time there are no new cases of HPAI in domestic poultry in the State of Michigan for at least 30 consecutive days."

"This is an active and ongoing threat to both dairy and poultry operations across the state," Boring told Bridge Michigan.

HPAI is a disease that's highly contagious and often deadly in poultry that can be transmitted by wild birds to domestic poultry and other bird and animal species. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service details outbreaks among livestock in nine states, and among poultry in 48 states since the start of the outbreak in February 2022.

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News update on Whitmer for 16 May 2024:

The Whitmer 'kidnapping hoax' is on the brink of collapse

The State of Michigan under Whitmer cutting out the middleman:

Michigan wants to buy its OWN coronavirus vaccines and cut out the federal middle man: Gov Gretchen Whitmer asks HHS permission to purchase 100,000 doses directly from Pfizer - as states DITCH CDC guidelines and take their own approaches