Honestly, this is just the beginning. As we get closer to the election stuff like this will ramp up. And on November 3rd, and the days following, it's going to be bad
This is accurate & not hyperbole from @jfallows.bsky.social
With support from USAID, the DRC had built an outbreak preparedness & response system “ready to go,” e.g., surveillance, labs, health workers, & stockpiles of personal protective equipment
When Musk killed USAID, that system collapsed 😢
Go on, you’ll never guess
Yup, there are socioeconomic disparities in who gets harmed when coal plants are allowed to spew methylmercury into the air
This shows, of course, a “lack of distributional justice”
2/2
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Bradley Perry
Prof Gavin Yamey
Nathan Myers
In our open letter to Trump/Rubio/RFK Jr we say:
“The strategy of quarantining at-risk US citizens at a new facility in a foreign nation poses a threat to US health security & represents a fundamental breach of the government’s duty of care and & constitutional right of US citizens to return home”
Future historian department:
-Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire.
-Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world.
The book writes itself