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The US has to maintain this forever. Sorry. That's the rules.
by zulux 5mo ago
The US has to maintain this forever. Sorry. That's the rules.
- mcphage 5mo agoIf we don’t stop it there, it’ll spread faster here.
- diogenescynic 5mo agoSame argument they make why we have to keep giving Israel money to kill Palestinians...
- mcphage 5mo agoWhat the fuck are you even talking about?
- 46493168 5mo agoFalse choice. The US can choose many paths besides “maintain forever” and “cut off entirely without warning.”
- onlypassingthru 5mo agoOr, until the local health service is sufficient to manage the problem by itself. As you may recall, uncontrolled contagious diseases have a habit of escaping their local fish markets or virology labs.
- fatata123 5mo ago[dead]
- spwa4 5mo agoUSAIDS assistance for Zambia was 13 million USD, or about 0.12% of their government budget, or about 1.2% of their health budget. AIDS assistance comfortably fits in their government budget. Let's face it. Trump made them choose to give or deny AIDS treatment to the poor, at a minimal cost to them. There were no real budgetary consequences to the Zambian government to do it. Relatively speaking it costs Zambians more than it would cost the US, but it's still not much, not to them either.
- janice1999 5mo agoThe US had to leave the medicine rot in warehouses. The AI chatbot said it was DEI.
- baranul 5mo agoIt's often not clear what the intention is. Whether it is to facilitate spreading the disease or to actually end it.