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Why is this the problem of the US taxpayer specifically? What is the responsibility of the rest of the world in all of this?

soupfordummies 2y ago
Is five years enough to forget how quickly diseases travel around the world? It's the equivalent of standing in front of a pool of vomit with an armful of mops while saying "hmmm, why do I gotta be the one to clean this up?"
- mindslight 2y ago
  No, but five years is long enough to have purged the institutions that "sabotaged" Trump's first term by acknowledging reality. All hail our new reactionary Lysenkoism.
  - dredmorbius 2y ago
    Rather less than five years. More like 50 days.
- lazyeye 2y ago
  More like 1000 people standing around a pool of vomit wondering when the other guy is gonna come and clean it up....
dredmorbius 2y ago
"... TB is airborne. You cannot stop it at the border. It’s spread through air – as long as you breathe, you will get it. And not just TB, but also drug-resistant TB and extreme drug-resistant TB. The current measures will probably create additional strains because there are people with interrupted treatment, there are people not diagnosed and so on." From TFA. Millions of dollars in spending ($250m -- $400m/yr, from TFA) will generate trillions of dollars in savings through avoided pandemics. The Covid-19 pandemic cost the US $14 trillion through the end of 2023: <https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/research/covid-19s-total-cost-to-the-economy-in-us-will-reach-14-trillion-by-end-of-2023-new-research/ https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/research/covid-19s-total-cost-t...> Curtailing funding without a planned drawdown or transition to other forms of support strands and makes useless assets including laboratories, screening centres, healthcare workers, and far, far, far more. The approach taken is, as I've already described, simply suicidal. Those with an capacity at comprehending basic English and applying elementary reasoning skills are encouraged to read a NY Times article which spells out the impacts of the aid curtailment on the US and its citizens and residents: "How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks" Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders. The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria. That includes Americans. <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-disease-outbreaks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-dise...> Archive: <https://archive.is/yvMly https://archive.is/yvMly>

soupfordummies 2y ago

Is five years enough to forget how quickly diseases travel around the world? It's the equivalent of standing in front of a pool of vomit with an armful of mops while saying "hmmm, why do I gotta be the one to clean this up?"

mindslight 2y ago
No, but five years is long enough to have purged the institutions that "sabotaged" Trump's first term by acknowledging reality. All hail our new reactionary Lysenkoism.
- dredmorbius 2y ago
  Rather less than five years. More like 50 days.
lazyeye 2y ago
More like 1000 people standing around a pool of vomit wondering when the other guy is gonna come and clean it up....

dredmorbius 2y ago

"... TB is airborne. You cannot stop it at the border. It’s spread through air – as long as you breathe, you will get it. And not just TB, but also drug-resistant TB and extreme drug-resistant TB. The current measures will probably create additional strains because there are people with interrupted treatment, there are people not diagnosed and so on." From TFA. Millions of dollars in spending ($250m -- $400m/yr, from TFA) will generate trillions of dollars in savings through avoided pandemics. The Covid-19 pandemic cost the US $14 trillion through the end of 2023: <https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/research/covid-19s-total-cost-to-the-economy-in-us-will-reach-14-trillion-by-end-of-2023-new-research/ https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/research/covid-19s-total-cost-t...> Curtailing funding without a planned drawdown or transition to other forms of support strands and makes useless assets including laboratories, screening centres, healthcare workers, and far, far, far more. The approach taken is, as I've already described, simply suicidal. Those with an capacity at comprehending basic English and applying elementary reasoning skills are encouraged to read a NY Times article which spells out the impacts of the aid curtailment on the US and its citizens and residents: "How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks" Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders. The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria. That includes Americans. <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-disease-outbreaks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/usaid-funding-dise...> Archive: <https://archive.is/yvMly https://archive.is/yvMly>