Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.

Uncontained epidemics don’t stay put

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    3 days ago

    While I agree that the U.S. should have never cut this funding, I’m still extremely disappointed that the rest of the world couldn’t step up in the interim.

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    This failed “administration” is more concerned with disappearing gardeners, crushing trans, golden ballrooms and cutting what they call “waste, fraud and abuse”.

    Oh, and all the self-enrichment. That’s priority number one for the Donvict Crime Family. All the other shit is mostly red meat for idiots like Bannon and monsters like him.

    Responsible governance? That’s for woke pussies who are losers.

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    I remember when Obama handled an Ebola outbreak extremely effectively and also created a pandemic playbook that Trump summarily ignored.

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      Much like the Iran agreement Obama had.

      PEDOnald had to trash it because he’s insanely jealous of Obama. And his stupid base put him there to try to erase everything Obama, because he broke their brains beyond repair.

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    Yeah historically we’ve paid for that because we have the most to lose from a global outbreak, like if the whole global economy was shut down because of a virus, could you imagine how bad that would be financially for us?

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      I can’t. In the current timeline, anything a month old no longer matters and we can’t learn anything from it.

      Ebola shut down here we come.