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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!!!
Irish_Dem
(82,423 posts)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.
yellow dahlia
(6,525 posts)"We" hate them.
Irish_Dem
(82,423 posts)An estimated 85 million people were killed in WWII.
yellow dahlia
(6,525 posts)Irish_Dem
(82,423 posts)Our fathers risked their lives to beat back evil and won.
We didn't know it was only temporary.
B.See
(8,894 posts)despite all the warning signs.
Which, in part, explains how it HAS.
Irish_Dem
(82,423 posts)But we found out that evil never goes away.
B.See
(8,894 posts)Irish_Dem
(82,423 posts)The battle never ends.
Hey Joe
(818 posts)Beartracks
(14,660 posts)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)yellow dahlia
(6,525 posts)applegrove
(133,175 posts)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)He is a monster.
the nelm
(302 posts)MLWR
(1,086 posts)BonnieJW
(3,140 posts)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)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.
pansypoo53219
(23,178 posts)OGBuzz
(662 posts)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)Nicholas Krystoph has been chronicling the collateral damage.
Bev54
(13,524 posts)and the other in Uganda and wish them good luck.
Joinfortmill
(21,700 posts)kimbutgar
(27,564 posts)niyad
(134,080 posts)niyad
(134,080 posts)BidenRocks
(3,516 posts)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)They live in a myopic miasma fed by power and narcissism. I hate them!
The Blue Flower
(6,608 posts)Both are poison and deserve whatever painful end they come to.
yellow dahlia
(6,525 posts)yorkster
(3,958 posts)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)Will there be any accountability?
How do we rebuild and how long will it take?
yorkster
(3,958 posts)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)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.
yellow dahlia
(6,525 posts)I have worried about this scenario since the "take over".