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yellow dahlia

(6,525 posts)
Fri May 22, 2026, 07:46 PM Yesterday

"We" hate it when we are right!

Elon and the Grifter decimated USAID, and now there is a break out of the Ebola Virus. The surveillance usually provided by the presence of health and humanitarian agencies is missing. There is a shortage of staff and supplies. This is bad! This could become significantly worse. Ebola is spreading like wildfire. Now what!?

Fuck you Elon and DJT!!!

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"We" hate it when we are right! (Original Post) yellow dahlia Yesterday OP
This is their goal. Irish_Dem Yesterday #1
"We" have seen evil. yellow dahlia Yesterday #2
The last time the planet saw such widespread pure evil like this was WWII. Irish_Dem Yesterday #4
And to think we thought it couldn't happen again. yellow dahlia Yesterday #5
We were so naive weren't we? Irish_Dem Yesterday #6
SOME thought it couldn't happen again, B.See 23 hrs ago #22
Yes we thought we had won against evil forever. Irish_Dem 15 hrs ago #23
I didn't. B.See 15 hrs ago #24
Yes. Good vs Evil is the iconic human condition. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #25
Exactly debsy Yesterday #19
BINGO!!! Hey Joe 11 hrs ago #28
Isn't population reduction and control the very thing anti-vaxxers accused Democrats of during COVID? Beartracks 6 hrs ago #34
I think I heard 300 dead so far. applegrove Yesterday #3
Probably just a drop in the bucket. Ugh! yellow dahlia Yesterday #8
How colossally stupid and evil it was to pull out USAID money. applegrove Yesterday #10
The Grifter leaves nothing but devastation and destruction and death in his path. yellow dahlia Yesterday #12
And, dare I say, that their racism had no iota of consideration in their decision. /s - nt the nelm Yesterday #13
What has he done that isn't "stupid and evil"??? MLWR 10 hrs ago #29
I heard about doctor who treated and survived BonnieJW 9 hrs ago #30
I read that it spreads through contact with bodily fluids wnylib 7 hrs ago #33
NACHO havoc on stopping ebola. so a double dim donski. pansypoo53219 Yesterday #7
Estimates are that 762,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died so far OGBuzz Yesterday #9
Yup. It makes my blood boil. yellow dahlia Yesterday #11
How I wish someone could kidnap both of them and drop one in the Congo Bev54 Yesterday #14
Evil. Joinfortmill Yesterday #15
I want karmic payback and Elon and 🍊🐖💩 get Ebola ! kimbutgar Yesterday #16
GMTA!!! niyad Yesterday #18
May they contract fatal cases themselves. niyad Yesterday #17
They forgot one thing. BidenRocks Yesterday #20
They don't feel the connection to the world around them. yellow dahlia Yesterday #21
Pustules of rottenness The Blue Flower 14 hrs ago #26
Unfortunately there will be no accountability that matches the evil destruction. yellow dahlia 8 hrs ago #32
There should a massive investigation of yorkster 13 hrs ago #27
Exactly. So much destruction! yellow dahlia 8 hrs ago #31
I heard somewhere on MSNOW that yorkster 5 hrs ago #35
Book "The Hot Zone," by R. Preston 1994 is non-fiction account of Ebola's origin and a terrifying outbreak Timeflyer 4 hrs ago #36
Thanks for the book rec. yellow dahlia 4 hrs ago #37

Irish_Dem

(82,423 posts)
1. This is their goal.
Fri May 22, 2026, 07:50 PM
Yesterday

Ridding the planet of the weak, sick, poor.

The billionaires believe every resource in the world belongs to them.
And they are not going to share.

Irish_Dem

(82,423 posts)
4. The last time the planet saw such widespread pure evil like this was WWII.
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:07 PM
Yesterday

An estimated 85 million people were killed in WWII.

Irish_Dem

(82,423 posts)
6. We were so naive weren't we?
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:21 PM
Yesterday

Our fathers risked their lives to beat back evil and won.

We didn't know it was only temporary.

B.See

(8,894 posts)
22. SOME thought it couldn't happen again,
Fri May 22, 2026, 11:39 PM
23 hrs ago

despite all the warning signs.

Which, in part, explains how it HAS.

Irish_Dem

(82,423 posts)
23. Yes we thought we had won against evil forever.
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:47 AM
15 hrs ago

But we found out that evil never goes away.

Beartracks

(14,660 posts)
34. Isn't population reduction and control the very thing anti-vaxxers accused Democrats of during COVID?
Sat May 23, 2026, 04:02 PM
6 hrs ago

Yet here we are: USAID eliminated to "save money" (i.e. funnel cash to things like ballrooms and wealthy donors) and then people die from lack of USAID funding, thereby "decreasing the surplus population" (as Ebenezer Scrooge would say) which eliminates the reason to ever restore that funding and removes the need for Republicans to feel guilty about it (if they ever did).

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applegrove

(133,175 posts)
10. How colossally stupid and evil it was to pull out USAID money.
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:46 PM
Yesterday

Last edited Fri May 22, 2026, 10:57 PM - Edit history (2)

If this strain of ebola makes it to the West the death rate will be way more expensive in money and lives than prevention would have been. Some day, in some outbreak, it will hit Mar A Lago. It surfaces a few times a year in a few places, and evolves in Africa as it is. Take away health resources and you will pay in the end. And a travel ban like the one the US put up already won't stop the spread. It will only slow it down for a time.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132172900

yellow dahlia

(6,525 posts)
12. The Grifter leaves nothing but devastation and destruction and death in his path.
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:57 PM
Yesterday

He is a monster.

the nelm

(302 posts)
13. And, dare I say, that their racism had no iota of consideration in their decision. /s - nt
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:03 PM
Yesterday

BonnieJW

(3,140 posts)
30. I heard about doctor who treated and survived
Sat May 23, 2026, 01:31 PM
9 hrs ago

the disease speak about ebola. He said it is not passed through the air like covid. Usually, caregivers catch it, so it takes very close contact.

wnylib

(26,481 posts)
33. I read that it spreads through contact with bodily fluids
Sat May 23, 2026, 02:49 PM
7 hrs ago

which is why caregivers and other people in close contact with an infected oerson are so vulnerable to catching it.

So it looks like protective clothing and gloves would be essential in an outbreak.

OGBuzz

(662 posts)
9. Estimates are that 762,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died so far
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:41 PM
Yesterday

due to cancellation of USAID programs. The world's richest man must be very proud of himself. All the more reason to never buy or support anything that Musk is involved in.

yellow dahlia

(6,525 posts)
11. Yup. It makes my blood boil.
Fri May 22, 2026, 08:54 PM
Yesterday

Nicholas Krystoph has been chronicling the collateral damage.

Bev54

(13,524 posts)
14. How I wish someone could kidnap both of them and drop one in the Congo
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:14 PM
Yesterday

and the other in Uganda and wish them good luck.

BidenRocks

(3,516 posts)
20. They forgot one thing.
Fri May 22, 2026, 10:33 PM
Yesterday

It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small, world!

yellow dahlia

(6,525 posts)
21. They don't feel the connection to the world around them.
Fri May 22, 2026, 10:36 PM
Yesterday

They live in a myopic miasma fed by power and narcissism. I hate them!

yorkster

(3,958 posts)
27. There should a massive investigation of
Sat May 23, 2026, 09:00 AM
13 hrs ago

Musk and the DOGE boys if we win in Nov.
Among other things, we have to start the full exposure of the massive scope of what this regime has wrought while Trump is still in office.


yellow dahlia

(6,525 posts)
31. Exactly. So much destruction!
Sat May 23, 2026, 02:37 PM
8 hrs ago

Will there be any accountability?

How do we rebuild and how long will it take?

yorkster

(3,958 posts)
35. I heard somewhere on MSNOW that
Sat May 23, 2026, 05:42 PM
5 hrs ago

Hillary Clinton was saying we need to focus on Afffordability AND Accountability.
She's damn right. It will be a huge undertaking, but we cannot just "look forward ".

Timeflyer

(3,802 posts)
36. Book "The Hot Zone," by R. Preston 1994 is non-fiction account of Ebola's origin and a terrifying outbreak
Sat May 23, 2026, 05:59 PM
4 hrs ago

in 1989. We had fully functioning CDC and other public health institutions back then. If it happened now, under Brainworm's Dept. of Health...scary as hell to imagine.

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