Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and “spreading rapidly”
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You can take care of it far away and cheap or just wait until it reaches your shores and costs multiple times more.
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Nice job there dipshits. Way to save a couple of pennies (while robbing the government blind)
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JFK Jr. is surely trying to one‑up Thomas Midgley Jr. in causing the most deaths worldwide by neglect and just being evil – hopefully he would also try designing his own polio bed to strangle himself in…
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Winning, SO MUCH winning!!! Also, it won't ever "get to the USA" since Ebola genomic testing funds will be cut – no testing = ZERO US CASES, capisce?
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The people of the US used to understand that their expertise in such things was needed worldwide.
Now that expertise is ridiculed domestically, or nations that need it are being blackmailed or forced to pay an Orange King's ransom to access it.
Now that expertise is ridiculed domestically, or nations that need it are being blackmailed or forced to pay an Orange King's ransom to access it.
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"If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any." D J Trump, June, 2020
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Hydroxychloroquine is great for more than just COVID! It's a real miracle drug!
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Thank you to Dr. Mole for a carefully detailed, yet heartfelt, narrative about another public health crisis that US leadership wants to either ignore or use as a blame game against those who don’t embrace MAGA-MAHA evils. Somehow her perspective helps make this nightmare of hostile ignorance less frightening and depressing.
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Yeah...you can't even call him a kehoe (kehoe's are experts that misuse their expertise for profit, see Ladapo, Oz etc al). He is just an evil asshole.
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First person who parachute drops Elon Musk into the Congo wins a trillion dollars.
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The WHO does take donations if your favorite charities don't support them already.
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That only works when you are talking about "real wars" - when our massive defense industry and the affiliated media conglomerates will rally. Yes, better to fight over there today than fight here at home later - so arm up!! But spending money/effort on medical stuff over there? Hell, no!! Congolese dying makes no difference to our executives here at home.
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Ah yes, the tried & true Trump strategy of irretrievably fucking something up because of some petty hateful grievance (USAID), making up some BS about how they're fixing it, and then when things stabilize on their own to some worse condition, putting a gold Trump decal on it and acting like they just invented sliced bread.
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We were everyone's friend. Why would they expect us to turn around and stab them in the back? Especially concerning EBOLA which any idiot can quickly figure out is cheaper to contain than not. This seems a bit close to victim blaming. From what I've been reading, the world has figured this out now that the USA is no longer a trustworthy nation but they really couldn't have seen this coming and I doubt they'll make that mistake again. Next time, they'll call China. At least their government is stable.
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Very similar to the first Trump administration when they deleted the epidemic disaster plans and eliminated maintenance on the national respirator stockpile six months before Covid.
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I have to admit. I kinda have a very, very, very morbid curiosity and almost want to see the incompetence play out if it were to reach the USA proper - ie. a case in the wild, and not someone brought back for treatment (though good luck with that - https://meincmagazine.com/health/2026...exposed-americans-sent-them-to-berlin-prague/)
Almost. I'm not a monster.
Almost. I'm not a monster.
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Since it spreads via behavior generally associated with humans caring for one another, I don't think Americans have much to worry about.
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Well, for a preview take a look at how this country reacted in the spring of 2020.
remember who was president then?
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I’m still utterly baffled that the destruction of USAID faded into the background. I feel like the bottom line of anyone who supports Trump is that they are okay with taking food out of the mouths of millions of kids that will now starve. They support criminally negligent homocide on a global scale. I don’t care what other policies he might have, nothing balances that out.
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Please, RFK, not JFK. Please fix your post.
If the autoincorrect keeps biting, just say "Dr Raw Sewage Brainworm Bearmeat".
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I’m a healthcare worker. I know I would be terrified but I’d step up. I think most of us would.
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More specifically, it was Elon Musk's recklessness:
https://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy...of-killing-children-with-doge-led-usaid-cuts/
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US 2025 GDP per capita: $90,000.
DR 2025 Congo GDP per capita: $871.
Just look at the numbers. How much taxes do you think DRC's government can collect in a country this poor? How much resources can that corrupt/incompetent government channel? Financial independence and capability to deal with "everything from war to energy to disease monitoring/control" is a complete pipe dream!
DRC is poor for numerous reasons. And ultimately, it's up to the Congolese people to sort it out themselves. But when acute crisis hit, rich nations do have a responsibility to help the masses who cannot help themselves. It's just human decency. As well, it's also what Christians are called to do. And numerous Trump/MAGA supporters loudly profess themselves Christians!
The above should be reason enough. And then we have the inconvenient fact that diseases can spread. And when they do, channeling travelers returning from infected regions through one airport (Washington Dulles) isn't going to stop anything. This admin has learned nothing from COVID.
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Ice T said it best, to the rich, No Lives Matter.
View: https://youtu.be/hlk7o5T56iw?si=uGXM0wJhEdBfCU02
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