Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
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Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming.
  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    171·
    10 days ago

    It’s not like Thou Shalt Not Kill is a Ten Commandment or Something. Otherwise it would be REALLY AWKWARD when Republican States FORCE Kids to Read it in Class!

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
      31·
      9 days ago

      come on, cite the whole verse

      Thow shall not kill unless they are poor, brown, gay, trans, black, asian, Muslim, or whatever, then do whatever you want.

      Exodus 20:13 new Trump bible

    • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      10 days ago

      They are. They have plans, and they’re working on it. It’s a perfect way for them to spread influence globally. It worked for the US for decades, until a Russian operative shut it down to make the US look bad.

      China may stand to gain more by letting a few million die first, showing that the US isn’t the global leader that it once was. I can’t imagine this is a small-scale operation, and it could take time to set up.

      I don’t care who feeds the people, as long as they get food. Cancelling food aid out of nowhere with multiple commitments already made? That’s just shitty business.

      • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
        61·
        9 days ago

        China has more of a reputation for indebting poorer countries to them, and just buying debt in general from as many countries as possible.

        I imagine they are looking at this less as an opportunity to fill the gap with soft power, and more of an opportunity to push desperate countries into debt with them. Our soft power moves were preventing that from being necessary in the way it will be now

        Theyve basically financially colonized a lot of Africa at this point already, even when we were sending a lot of aid there. Its massively beneficial for China to have as much control/leverage as possible over the countries that supply raw materials for their manufacturing economy

        China has played the long game for longer than most countries have even existed. Rich countries owe them and buy everything from them. Poorer countries owe them and sell everything to them

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    So this is in the NYT? NBC? ABC? . . uh . . . VanityFair? . … no? Nothing eh.

    Yeah that sounds about right.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
    71·
    10 days ago

    I’ve got it! I figured it out! They are killing off Americans so that the ratio of Americans to imigrants goes down, and they can show a trend over time of the invasion. That’s the key. They can’t force people to cross the border to fit their fiction, so they are killing Americans to inflate the numbers.

    I’m not even gonna add the /s to this because there is a non-zero chance I’m right.

  • Binturong@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    I death per dollar paid to Stormy Daniels, roughly. I don’t believe in coincidences in politics anymore.