Hey, hey, Donald J, how many kids have you killed today?
Well, probably a bunch in Africa, where his wrecking of USAID helped the latest Ebola outbreak spread undetected for months:
There are 482 suspected cases and about 116 deaths reported since April in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with two cases and one death in Uganda and potential spread to neighboring South Sudan. The outbreak “might have been going on for a few months”, said Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Scripps Research.
…US foreign assistance to the DRC dropped from $1.4bn in 2024 to $431m in 2025 and only $21m so far this year. Assistance to Uganda dropped from $674m to $377m in 2025 and a negative $1.2m so far in 2026.
…“When those USAID stop-work orders came out, there was a whole series of people who were actively looking for spillover in the DRC and in Uganda,” [Matthew Kavanagh, director of the Center for Global Health Policy and Politics at Georgetown University] said. “There were hundreds of health workers doing surveillance activities, and then, of course, you had the bigger picture, which is the thousands of health workers who were doing HIV, TB, malaria, maternal and child health – all of these things funded through US funding from USAID and also some from CDC to be doing global health activities – who were the frontlines of detection.”
Patients don’t usually come to the clinic suspecting they have Ebola, he pointed out; they usually come in with a fever or other symptoms, and “those frontline community health workers … are always the ones that detect outbreaks early”.
…In the past, the US had ensured that “many, many potential global outbreaks didn’t become global”, but now it’s stepping back, Kavanagh said, adding: “This outbreak should have been detected weeks ago, and exactly how and why will be figured out as we go, but it certainly says that the United States has stopped playing the role” [Melody Schreiber, “US Is ‘Simply Choosing Not to Stop’ Ebola Outbreak After Massive Public Health Cuts, Experts Say,” The Guardian, 2026.05.21].
We probably don’t have to worry about Ebola reaching South Dakota, but the remoteness of this outbreak doesn’t excuse America’s retreat from its proven ability to prevent deaths and ameliorate suffering.
Nature is the biggest terrorist and we screw around with $1.5T military budgets. We (well, not “we”) concentrate on the wrong things.
Our Don destroys everything he touches. Its gonna be a long haul.
I understand the concern, but it seems to me that at some point these countries
need to do this independently. Is there a plan for that? The USA can’t solve all the
problems in the world. We have plenty if problems here that we don’t seem to
be able to solve.
So much for compassionate conservatism, innit?
Well Edwin, Harris worked in Central America and with business in America to build up the counties that were causing so many to come to the US.
Trump just relies on pain and torture, simple and more man o sphere.
Good Larry, wasn’t compassionate conservatism Bush Jr’s motto? The Republicans are not conservative nor are they compassionate. They don’t stand for anything now except Trump.
Edwin, ask someone in the military how many shots they get when they go overseas, especially in areas without heath care. My elder Bro has malaria from Viet Nam, and my younger Bro has hepatitis C from moving the Kurds in Desert Storm. Before they left, they had about a dozen shots and they’re still sick for life. Imagine if they hadn’t had any shots.
Anytime a disease like Ebola is discovered, they need to nip it in the bud like Obama’s administration did. They followed the playbook. Trump threw it out and winged it during covid, so he allowed millions to perish from his stupidity.
We’re all screwed if Ebola reaches the Midwest. I’m not being chicken little here, I’m being realistic. A vaccine for covid was created in Trump’s first term but we all know that ain’t gonna happen again.
Republicans justify military action in foreign countrues because maybe their problems could one day impact ours. Yet when it comes to deadly diseases that could arrive here, other countries are supposed to figure it out. It would take a scientific, not militaristic, approach, but there would be no glory in that.
Mr. Arndt seems to ignore that the US is a major sponsor of state-supported terrorism even as We, the People shirk soft power.
I’ve been vaccinated for covid and had one or boosters.
I’ve also had covid twice after vaccination. Not sure
what to make out of that.
I know what to make of that. You survived. Your symptoms were likely less severe than otherwise. Also, you can thank your unvaccinated neighbors who made it more likely that you contracted Covid in the first place.
I’ve had all the COVID shots that were made available and I haven’t gotten Covid once. Nor has my husband.
I agree, waiting for “other countries” to develop cures for diseases is like waiting for RFK Jr. to actually come up with something to cure measles without vaccination. Obama did the right thing with Ebola, he nipped it in the bud HARD and FAST.
Meanwhile, DOGE cut all the funding and dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was one of the major ways we helped PREVENT the outbreak and spread of diseases before they could get to America. Not to mention that they cut the funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
There’s an old saying that’s still true: You get what you pay for. You pay nothing, you get nothing. Except something that might kill you. Wait till smallpox returns to the world. THAT had a 1 out of 7 death rate.
Made the outbreak predictable, too.
Tooshy Gabbard is out at CIA. A job tailormde for two headed monsteer Lewdandlusty/Noem, just not as catchy as Buckingham./Nicks.