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AverageOldGuy

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1. The Ebola outbreak is a direct consequence of . . .
Sat May 23, 2026, 04:48 PM
Yesterday

. . . DOGE.

Long story.

Elon Musk is a white supremacist South African. As I recall, during the apartheid period, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) either cancelled or did not have programs in South Africa because we would not support apartheid.

Remember DOGE's first action was to completely abolish USAID -- wipe it out, stop all programs, close the doors; food shipments from the US were left rotting on the docks in New Orleans; stocks of various vaccines were simply abandoned in Africa. All because Musk hates USAID for their actions toward South Africa.

USAID had programs aimed at controlling and eventually wiping out Ebola. All that stopped immediately when Musk destroyed USAID.

And now we are seeing an Ebola outbreak in Sub-Saharan Africa and god-only-knows what has happened to the vaccine stocks and the people to get vaccine where it is needed.

Thanks to Trump and Musk, we are now frantically trying to stop a pendimec that once was well under control.

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