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Apoorva Mandavilli
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Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country.
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February 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Can we just universally stop reporting ANYTHING they say? Until it matches up with reality, why is what they're saying 'news?'
Yeah. We're missing a whole slew of "reportedly"s, "according to"s, "Mr. D. claims,", etc.
Way too many declarative sentences taking what these lying pigs say as true.
DOGE is engaged in mysterious and important work, only fully understood by Kier Elon.
Why is musk even involved with anything to do with science or communicable disease?! He’s an imbecile!
But he's so greedy! And sadistic! He flatters trump. trump is dazzled by his (self-reported) brilliance.
Because he's never worked hard or achieved anything challenging, trump believes the whole world is made up of slackers like him. Of course elon's going to Mars! I always win at golf!
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Even if you have no empathy and care nothing about the African people affected you should care about screening for the disease so it does not spread here. We are not very good at stopping pandemics.
I think they see dead people in Africa as a big bonus, if not a policy goal. As for people in the US: I don't think they care if a couple million die.
They may not care but Ebola in the US would be like the movie Outbreak not like Covid.
This situation just keeps twisting. It’s alarming when seemingly accidental decisions can lead to serious public health risks. Let's hope there's a contingency plan in place to mitigate any fallout from these contract cuts.
My friend, are you truly this naive? This is a bunch of hateful people who don't care if you live or die. He issued an EO saying to throw out any pandemic planning. He gagged the CDC so they can't warn us. How active is bird flu in your zip code? You have no way of knowing. That's deliberate!
They'd have no competence without in-competence.
Another lie? Who would have thought...
Presumably the DOGE administrator currently on holidays in Mexico would know about this.
I fucking hope the two of them get Ebola. Lying monsters
Unleashing deadly diseases is of no consequence to them. They don’t understand or have any appreciation of public health
All of this information has to be fact-checked, musk has to be grilled. Journalists, news outlets should take nothing at face value. Whatever is said must be followed-up on. musk/trump et. al. have no integrity. None!!
