| ▲ | gottorf 8 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
> even if we step away from your comparison of a body of millions of people to a someone living in Brooklyn with a trust fund The article claims 57 cases and 35 deaths. Globally, Ebola killed 15k people over the past 50 years[0]. In the last big outbreak in the DR Congo, it infected less than 4k people in a country of roughly 100 million. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact. > We weren't asked about the abrupt change. There was a hotly contested election with one side promising abrupt change and the other side promising a maintenance of the status quo. It's really not like they were hiding their intentions. Broadly speaking, the electorate wanted to take a wrecking ball to what they saw as Washington excess, whether that characterization is fair or not. > Just consider Poland: do they wish Ukraine didn't exist because of the amount of resources they expend on Ukraine's defense? Poland shares a border with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a nation that has also been a historical aggressor against Poland. I don't believe this is a good comparison to the US funding healthcare in the DR Congo. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bonsai_spool 8 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact. You compared a sovereign nation to an apartment, sorry I was unclear. > There was a hotly contested election with one side promising abrupt change and the other side promising a maintenance of the status quo. There's good polling about this sort of thing - Americans don't want to cause the death of other people. You may construe the electioneering to mean otherwise, but I was not alluding to this. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/05/01/majorities-of-... > Poland shares a border with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a nation that has also been a historical aggressor against Poland. I don't believe this is a good comparison to the US funding healthcare in the DR Congo. I disagree, because allowing infectious disease to fester slowly allows the development of antibiotic resistance and magnification of problems that could otherwise be contained. In a sense, we're all closer to infections in the developing world than we recognize - despite the US efforts to dismantle the system that has surveilled these infections up to now. | |||||||||||||||||
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