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

  • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca
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    23 days ago

    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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      22 days ago

      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.