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Critical-Machine-483 Mar 27, 2026 +101

It’s about foreign aid not vaccines.

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time_travel_rabbit Mar 27, 2026 +77

Nobody here read the article 🤦

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marshaul Mar 27, 2026 +41

Did you expect them to, or something? This is Listnook.

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flsurf7 Mar 27, 2026 +15

Right. We only read titles and comments. Come on now.

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EirHc Mar 27, 2026 +4

I came to the comment section for the article summary... Pretty disappointed in all of you. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

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flsurf7 Mar 27, 2026 +2

You exactly know where you came to.

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Decorus_Somes Mar 27, 2026 +2

Why read lot word when few word do trick

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Covered_in_Love Mar 28, 2026 +1

Why? What it say? Anything interesting?

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MrPantsyFlants Mar 27, 2026 +233

The unvaccinated petri dish for the planet.

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026 +22

That's not what the article is about.

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Dababolical Mar 27, 2026 +59

It specifically mentions the altering of the childhood vaccine schedule and a reduced commitment to pandemic preparedness. The article isn't just about that, but clearly mentions it.

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mygutsaysmaybe Mar 27, 2026 +14

It still is a minor part of the article, as it does talk about the changing vaccination schedules for US children as being one of the concerns

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Hocaro Mar 27, 2026 -1

It’s part of the listed reasons as to why the USA is a detriment to society

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026

Yup, but not the main focus of the article.

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Dababolical Mar 27, 2026

The main focus of the article is about the United States involvement in a growing international health crisis and how to mitigate it. The article states this is due to both our abandonment of USAID and domestic vaccination recommendations contribute to that. Our domestic and foreign health related policy is discussed as a main topic of the article. The second sentence in the article lays out the theme of the piece quite clearly: >Matthew Herder and colleagues warn that these policies pose a grave threat to global health, risking multiple, **international infectious disease outbreaks** and potentially leading to millions of deaths and infections, particularly in low and middle income countries. To say it's not what the article is about is just misleading. Our abandonment of USAID and increasing vaccine hesitancy are the core topics of this article. They directly blame our alteration of the vaccine schedule as a direct reason. >**Key US actions detrimental to global health include** withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO), reducing funding to combat diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in many of the world’s poorest nations, **altering the US childhood vaccination schedule, and reducing commitment to pandemic preparedness.**

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026 +1

They mention changing vaccine recommendations at the end of their list of reasons and never touch on it again. The original comment was saying the reason for the proclamation was because we're the world's unvaccinated petri dish. That's not the case. It's more to do with overall foreign policy, aid spending, and pulling out of deals.

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Dababolical Mar 27, 2026 +1

>The original comment was saying the reason for the proclamation was because we're the world's unvaccinated petri dish. That's not the case. Go back to the top comment and there is no mention as to that being *the reason* for the proclamation. I read it as a snide remark about the state of vaccine hesitancy in the United States, which is fair game to comment on. It was also clearly hyperbole. Anyone with a brain would concede there are likely plenty of countries with worse vaccination rates, they just wanted to make a joke. >It's more to do with overall foreign policy, aid spending, and pulling out of deals. I am not sure how you see an article warning about the future spread of infectious disease and determine it isn't all of the above, including vaccination policy. It's very relevant given the United States is one of the [top tourism destinations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings).

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026 +1

Yeah cool thanks that's my point. Hyperbole on a small section of the reason for the actual point of the article. Hence (that's not what the article is about). There's no mention that the vaccine schedule change is causing the rest of the world to declare a health crisis. Which is what the top comment eludes to when you take the title of the original post and the article title into account. The article is moreso focused on the fact that policy changes and lack of funding in vulnerable communities and countries will see large sweeping effects that can lead to a global health emergency. Yes all of the above, but they never touch back on the subject of vaccination but do talk more about foreign policy decisions.

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026 +1

Let's just go through it simply Article title: The US is driving a public health emergency of international concern Comment: The unvaccinated petri dish for the planet. Implication: The US is driving a public health energy of international concern because the US is acting as an unvaccinated petri dish for the planet. IE the US is spreading diseases due to the unvaccinated which is causing international concern. The Reality of the Article: The US is driving a public health energy of international concern because the US has made a plethora of changes to foreign policy, pulled out of the WHO, stoped funding, and changed their vaccine schedule from recommending 17 to recommending 11 and categorizing the other 6 as shared clinical decision making. All still available to the public. My comment: That's not what the article is about. Conclusion: The article is in fact not about how the US is a petri dish for the rest of the world and not the reason for international concern for a health emergency. The article doesn't mention anything regarding more infections, more disease, or anything in relation to higher spreading and growing of disease.

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NerdManual Mar 27, 2026 +299

Half our population are gullible, easily manipulated morons. I apologize for their existence. Unfortunately there are enough lazy, apathetic, non-voters in the other half that the first half was able to make a particularly imbecilic decision and put a turd in charge of the country. I apologize for their reckless endangerment of the planet.

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thefunkybassist Mar 27, 2026 +2

This guy maths

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Capable_Kiwi2514 Mar 27, 2026 +1

They live in an environment of propaganda and poor education. They're not morons, they've been enculturated by a system that's owned by evil elites who deliberately deny them the educational tools to question their own environment. It's not dissimilar to how Russians live.

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cllxo Mar 27, 2026 +1

The internet is out there. Information everywhere. What we lack is critical thinking and have an abundance of anti-education.

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Hyperion1144 Mar 27, 2026 +1

And I was raised hard right evangelical and used to vote straight ticket republican. The writing was on the wall in 2007-08, which was when I stopped and flipped sides. Stop making excuses for them. Stop making them into victims. They chose this.

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sunnyspiders Mar 27, 2026 +108

They’re bred to be customers, not citizens. Making the world around them a better place isn’t their priority. They just want cool toys and shit.

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jackp0t789 Mar 27, 2026 +21

>They just want cool toys and shit. Bread and circuses.

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Melkor15 Mar 27, 2026 +8

We are in the age of toys and circus. The circus being the politicians in real time, all the time, non stop.

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pogsly Mar 27, 2026 +9

We got outbred by the inbreds

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nightfly1000000 Mar 27, 2026 +2

> We got outbred by the inbreds That's a tough circle to square.. the ruling classes who are supposedly the intelligent ones, are famously inbred. Or at least the the old school were.

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

I don’t understand why I’ve been laughign at your comment for the past 5 minutes

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NerdManual Mar 28, 2026 +1

Idiocracy predicted the future.

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Fergnasty007 Mar 27, 2026 +4

It's hard for me to not get angry at some of my friends who don't want to have the hard conversations. I even cut ties with my dad who I love because we have such different world views but he's not willing to have a conversation with me about it. He just wants to ignore whenever I send him new news articles or new info about what's going on.

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lolexecs Mar 27, 2026 +16

It’s worth adopting the Cipolla matrix for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_M._Cipolla You have the intelligent (help others, help themselves) The bandits (hurt others, help themselves) The gullible or hapless (help others, hurt themselves) The stupid (hurt others, hurt themselves) The issue in the US is that a very large percentage of the bandits have decided to chuck in with the stupid.

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Silver-End9570 Mar 27, 2026 +4

I think the issue is just that there's a lot more stupid here than most people are willing to admit, especially in certain parts of the country. We have people here who would willingly harm themselves if they thought or knew that it would harm someone else, and they hate them for stupid reasons they were taught.

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Askefyr Mar 27, 2026 +4

The issue in the US is that half of the stupid think they're one of the bandits.

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Capable_Kiwi2514 Mar 27, 2026 +2

That's an oversimplistic model that flattens social continuities and uses marginalizing language in lieu of precise language. It's not great.

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lolexecs Mar 27, 2026 +1

Erm, ***all*** models are abstractions. They are, by design, reductive. What is it they say, the map is not the territory?

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RiddlingVenus0 Mar 27, 2026

Found one of the gullible.

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Storm_Bard Mar 27, 2026 +2

I think most countries population is that dumb. Its your media imo. Fox news is amplifying the dumb.

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NerdManual Mar 28, 2026 +1

Agreed, but I can only apologize for my own county’s stupidity.

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MinnieShoof Mar 27, 2026 +2

Half of all the population is below average intelligence. You just don’t hear shit about other countries because they’ve had millennia to build closets in which to hide their skeletons.

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NerdManual Mar 28, 2026 +1

Agreed, but I can only apologize for my own county’s stupidity.

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thelittlestrawberry3 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Im not sure it is particularly helpful to classify non-voters as lazy or apathetic. I think that is ignoring the fact that the current system is set up to make is hard for some to vote. Intentionally. Other countries have voting holidays and do things specificly to make it convinent to do so. If you're working multiple jobs just to get by its hard to get the time to go vote, even though the results of the voting are likely going to effect you at a much harsher rate than others. And that's not even getting into the fact that their lives leave them little time to be informed voters. There is an interesting article from the Pew Research Center called The Party of Non Voters. I do think in order to fix this problem we need to stop looking at it as "lazy". That certainly isn't going to fix the problem. It just keeps the disenfranchised disenfranchised. We need to really be looking at why and looking for solutions. The "lazy" reteric is just more propaganda used to keep us blaming each other instead of turning our attention to the capital.

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McCool303 Mar 27, 2026 +18

Yeah, but for every 1 person disfranchised as a voter in the US. There are 5 that simply don’t vote “because it doesn’t change anything” or “both parties are the same” or insert whatever apathetic excuse they have. If people haven’t figured out the importance of voting now after DJT then they are completely lost in ignorance.

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thelittlestrawberry3 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Can you source that number, because that isn't what I'm seeing? And spouting numbers like that without fact behind them is just doing your part in helping them push their propaganda.

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McCool303 Mar 27, 2026 +14

Of the 245m registered voters in the US 36% or 90m did not vote in the last most consequential election. Do with that information what you want. But I don’t think we can chalk that all up to “the system”. At some point Americans have to take accountability or we won’t change the problems above you listed. With early voting and same day voting and mail in voting there is absolutely no excuse outside of the fed literally taking your voting rights away not to do everything in your power to vote. It’s simply just not caring enough in most cases.

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dermatthes Mar 27, 2026 +5

this baffles me in nearly every democratic country worldwide that has free and open election w/o compulsory voting.. its time that people realize what an opportunity an election is.. there are so many people worldwide who literally die for the right to vote and in some western countries people can't be bothered to cast their vote cause \*insert c**** excuse here\*. Use your goddam right and take part in the political process and even if its as small as taking part in an election (this does not only apply to the US ... imho every population of a country that as an election attendance below 85-90% should be ashamed of themselves)

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McCool303 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Agree, it’s asinine politicians view registering for the draft a duty but not voting. But we know why, when everyone is compelled to vote they can’t pick their voters through gerrymandering as effectively. Because voters change their residence and move out of districts.

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Dr_DoesNothing Mar 27, 2026 +3

Maybe Voting Day should instead be Voting Week. The whole week of November 3 people are off work ( pay guaranteed) so they can learn about their candidates and vote at any point in the week. If one day is too crowded, try again tomorrow. As a bonus, people get to experience universal basic income.

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thelittlestrawberry3 Mar 27, 2026 +2

That would be a very good start.

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reddittatwork Mar 27, 2026 +3

There’s a good chunk of Morons, who can’t pass grade 8 biology, but can debate Dr.fauci Also our national health policy is run my a ex cocaine addict

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AmazingMojo2567 Mar 27, 2026 -11

Voting solves nothing when Israel controls our politicians

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2xfun Mar 27, 2026 +15

Sure but are we ignoring the root cause: lobbying?

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Pm7I3 Mar 27, 2026 +10

*stares at Russia*

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BIGHOSS19921234 Mar 27, 2026 +1

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DillBagner Mar 27, 2026 +5

The Russia thing was not a hoax by any means. It is quite possible for more than one bad actor to exist at the same time.

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AmazingMojo2567 Mar 27, 2026 -3

Oh absolutely, china, russia, Israel are all doing operations within the US to try and subvert power to help their objectives and interests. Israel just has more overall control compared to them

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AmazingMojo2567 Mar 27, 2026 -4

AIPAC literally owns our country

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AmazingMojo2567 Mar 27, 2026

My anti Israel comments are getting removed by listnook now. Just got an email about it lol

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026 +1

If only people like you were the majority

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NerdManual Mar 28, 2026 +1

Thanks. I’m as big of an idiot as the next dummy, but I do realize it’s unfair that the entire planet has to suffer because the USA has enough chowderheads who chose to put a convicted felon in the White House. If we could keep the lunacy within our own borders (ironic, yeah?) then I’d just shrug and take my daily beatings, but I am genuinely embarrassed by my country’s behavior.

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manymasters Mar 27, 2026 -5

it's way more than half and if you took off your mask when rich pedos told you to, you're part of that group as well

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HadrianMCMXCI Mar 27, 2026 -8

Take some accountability bud, just cause you might have voted doesn't make you magically not lazy and apathetic when your country is murdering people on multiple continents in your name. Trump and his cronies will keep doing awful shit until they are stopped, so stop them.

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NerdManual Mar 28, 2026 +1

You have some suggestions? I’m listening, but Apart from voting against him and his cronies, protesting, and pushing my elected officials to do the right thing, I think I’m out of legal options.

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lifting_cardio Mar 27, 2026 +37

Education has systematically been defunded for decades by the republicans. Now, Trump has started the dismantling of the department of education. Republicans are reliant on a population that lacks critical thinking skills. That’s why it’s always us.

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Odd_Resident9501 Mar 27, 2026 +8

I agree education is constantly attacked by large segments of society with funding a common victim. But, it is not just a money problem. We have a large anti-intellectual segment in our population. It does not matter how much money you have available if large groups of people do not want the education because they either are actively against it or just apathetic to it. There is a difference between seeking knowledge and just being exposed to knowledge. Those who seek knowledge will more likely expend the energy to find it…even if little to no formal schooling is available because of funding cuts. Personally, I ran into so many people who get weirdly angry, critical, or otherwise negative when seen reading a book on some esoteric, technical subject with a common refrain of why would you read that if not forced to?

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Roar-Lions-Roar Mar 27, 2026 +21

The USA is the [fifth highest globally in per pupil education spending](https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country): $15,500 per student per year. In our lowest performing districts, that number often exceeds $30k or $40k. We do not have an education funding problem. We do, however, clearly have an issue with how that money is being spent.

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BloodFireCookies Mar 27, 2026 +10

> Note that expenditures per FTE student reflect the average spent per student, not necessarily the amount spent on each student. I'm thinking y'all maybe aren't spending that money directly on students.

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Roar-Lions-Roar Mar 27, 2026 +5

Yes, that’s basically the issue. The administrative budgets at the schools have ballooned out of control. School Districts also insisting on abandoning phonics instead of “whole word” reading has also been an educational disaster. [Mississippi of all states is a rare success story because of recent reforms they made,](https://theweek.com/education/mississippi-education-ranking-progress-reading-math) and now ranks near the top for reading and math.

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SlowCrates Mar 27, 2026 +1

Well with the cost of living/inflation also ballooning, it's only natural that institutions will allocate funds to keep their wages up.

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inhumanrampager Mar 27, 2026 +14

Does this number factor in elaborate football fields?

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theoceansknow Mar 27, 2026 +2

Analyzing per-pupil spending is misleading. Some students require more services, period. A child with cerebral palsy could need a 1 on 1 aid for getting around school during the day, and also need therapy services like OT, PT, and speech. Like teachers, those are salaried positions. By and large, we don't force kids with extra needs into their own dedicated systems because societal immersion is one of the primary educational benefits of schools. It's not accurate or fair to use per-pupil spending. I imagine there's kids with needs in other countries whose extra needs simply aren't met

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piperonyl Mar 27, 2026 +5

Also, religion. Its a mental illness.

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Secret-Sundae-1847 Mar 27, 2026 +12

If you’re so concerned petition your government to stay paying

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NewLineCinema Mar 27, 2026 +22

This is about money, you could always lobby for your country to put in more if it's that important to you personally. It's not some plague or outbreak in the USA, it's about the lack of money it was giving to give to others to help them.

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DillBagner Mar 27, 2026 +2

The average person cannot lobby government officials because "lobby" is just a washed term for "bribe."

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sask357 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Yes. The US has dropped the facade of humanitarianism and altruism. Soft power no longer has enough appeal. It's all about the money and what America can get for itself. Polls show that Republicans approve of this world-view. There aren't enough active voters on the other side to change things.

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026 -4

And... where did the money go?

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NewLineCinema Mar 27, 2026 +9

It stopped being paid, the USA pulled out of those organizations

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Hyperion1144 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Hey, 24 months ago this place was lousy with foreigners laughing at the idea of Trump returning to office. Ya'll thought it was funny. When I mentioned that a second Trump term would be a f****** catastrophe for the entire world, ya'll laughed harder and said it wasn't your problem. At least I see the laughter has finally stopped.

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SurroundTiny Mar 27, 2026 +20

Why don't "you guys" step in and take up the funding slack that this article is complaining about?

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Secret-Sundae-1847 Mar 27, 2026 +14

Oh so we don’t have more money then Having more money isn’t excuse to be paying practically nothing at all. I love how others have such strong opinions about how Americans money should be spent

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +2

So why are you using this American website by an American company that helps make Americans and America even wealthier and have more influence around the world? One must wonder.

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Jokes on Listnook, I’m using third party client with no ads so they can’t get me money

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 28, 2026 +1

Of course they can. You are the product.

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

I’m not viewing ads, so… how are they making money?

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 28, 2026 +1

They sell literally everything you do and say. They already know everything about you.

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

They sell what I do? 😆 alright boss man

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Doxjmon Mar 27, 2026 +5

Did you read the article?

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Cereal_Grapeist Mar 27, 2026 +6

Were you expecting Singapore to be on the global forefront of... anything? Except for autocratic laws perhaps.

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Of course not. We have our faults, but I do know we are not doing our part to make everyone else in the world worse off than they were before.

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Potential_Aioli_4611 Mar 27, 2026 +2

No disagreement here... PFAS, leaded fuel, high fructose corn syrup... its been one dumb ass invention after another in the name of profit without any long term studies or regard for their impacts. Pretty sure we are also the source of enshittification, shrinkflation, vulture capitalism.

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Fearless_Theory64 Mar 27, 2026

Another uninformed comment. Read the article ffs.

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026 +4

I did, and why should it change my conclusion that America has been bringing nothing but malady and misery to the world of late?

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Television_Powerful Mar 27, 2026 -3

My first thoughts also. However this seems to stem from the already made budgetcuts by dodge and leaving of WHO. The rest of the world just has to fix this, like the global market and everything else the US left behind/makes a mess of.

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MeanMelissa74 Mar 27, 2026

Rfk Jr from autism Tylenol and foreskins is NOT helping the situation either

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chirpz88 Mar 27, 2026 -1

Because we've managed to then politics into a tribal sports rooting system. Instead of learning about issues and voting in our best interest we just look at Democrat or Republican and vote for our "team". If you took out like 2 issues from a political stance half the lol on both sides would suddenly stop caring Abortion and gun control are topics that both the left and right run on. If you told the left abortion was safe and the right guns are safe a lot of people would stop caring. The other problem is that education has gone down in a lot of areas so poor uneducated people now have the Internet and believe everything on it

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84Cressida Mar 28, 2026

You’re free to lobby your own country to pay up. Why should we always be the one that does? Especially with your asinine comments. Edit: aww poor wittle guy blocked me and couldn’t respond.

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Over-Willingness-933 Mar 27, 2026 +36

Surely this is the responsibility of every country to fund this. Plus it might be a good reminder to countries who continuously vote for anti US resolutions at the UN, they fund your healthcare.

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mrbabyman767 Mar 27, 2026 +24

All these people trashing the United States I’d love to hear how much funding their own country is putting into AIDS assistance to Africa.

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 -4

I did a quick fact check and looks like the US provided \~60-65 billion dollars/year in total public health aid to the global south compared to the EU's \~100 billion. Even per capita the EU was higher. The US focused this aid more on individual diseases (like AIDS) which it treated as a national security risk, but total aid from the EU was higher. So I guess as a EU citizen (additionally one from the wealthier part of the EU) I'm allowed to critize the US then? What about Africans? Are they allowed to have an opinion on this? EDIT: Comment viewed and downvoted 65% by Americans according to listnook metrics. Yeah, f*** you guys as well.

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UW_exploration Mar 27, 2026 +14

The USA is an individual country, while the EU is not one country. 65 billion looks more impressive from the USA than 100 billion from an aggregate of countries.

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 +3

I included per capita for a reason. The US has 40 times as many people as my country but we give more to the UN for public health aid in the global south per capita. I know I'll get downvoted in this cesspool of American exceptionalism, but just know that the world takes notice, judges and hates you for it. Also, what about my last question. What about Africans. Are they allowd to complain?

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Rapph Mar 27, 2026 +5

But per capita doesn’t show the whole picture of things thats largely what people don’t seem to grasp in terms of spending. Take a country like the UK as an example to roll out a new country wide infrastructure it requires 1/45th of the US’s labor and whatever material costs are associated with it because of land mass. This is also while the UK population is only 1/5th that of the US. It is far more efficient to do anything in a country like the UK. This is true of roads,schools, hospitals, trains, power, nearly everything. Thats not to detract from your statement, the US should absolutely contribute to global public health, it’s just a point that I don’t think gets acknowledged in these discussions and is relevant. It’s also why internally the US generally has better numbers in nearly every category in the states that are more dense. It’s simply way more financially efficient in those areas to do anything at all. My point is there is nuance to these topics that are relevant.

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 -2

Can you explain how higher population density means that the average European should send more aid to the global south than the average American since this is the context of the conversation? Wouldn't the fairest metric be aid per units of GDP? If we chose that metric, the US would look even worse.

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Djcalied Mar 27, 2026 +3

So we should help people who hate us and will always hate us. Ok.

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pyotrdevries Mar 27, 2026 +3

The USA is a federation of states with a certain amount of independence and a certain amount of federal control. The EU is a group of countries with a certain amount of independence and a certain amount of EU control. The EU as a whole has a bit more citizens than the US but in general they can be compared. Unless you'd like to just compare South Carolina to Finland or something.

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026

Amazing. And the fact that you get upvoted - just shows how much of a cesspool your country is.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +2

Pretty much guarantee that if you scooped up the US and a couple other non-european countries, foreign aid would add up to more than what the EU is doing. Comparing the EU to the USA is just stupid. Of course the EU should be doing more for an aid, it's a coalition of countries, not one country. There's not a single country in the EU that is doing anything close to the USA in foreign aid.

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 +2

The avarege EU citizen does more than the average US citizen. Please just learn what "per capita" means. This is hopeless. You guys are hopeless. Reform your education system.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +4

That's not what "per capita humanitarian aid" is. What a dumb take. You know what I never saw on any of my foreign aid trips? Any European Aid workers. Ever. Not once. The average EU citizen ain't doing shit.

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 +3

That is precisely what per capita means. What do you think it means? Also, you can keep your lies to yourself. I don't even believe that you left the country, let alone ever went on a foreign aid trip given your awful attitude right now. Here's the real data and this includes former USAid personnel: [https://unsceb.org/hr-nationality](https://unsceb.org/hr-nationality) US: 5.528 people in 2024 EU: 20.574 people in 2024

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +3

No, its not. Per capita does not mean individual efforts of each person in the European union. Good grief

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Ok_Machine_724 Mar 27, 2026 -1

The MAGA and basement dwelling shit eaters are out in force.

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redyellowblue5031 Mar 27, 2026 +2

The US pulling out of world health is bad for the US. Any “saved” money is currently being used to have ICE stand around airports, and they’re asking for 200 billion for this “not a war that we’ve already won”. 200 billion is about 200 years of WHO funding at our 2024 levels. Not only money but we lose soft power across the world, and I know this is hard to remember because the pandemic was so long ago but diseases don’t give a f*** about borders. Any problem we don’t solve can pretty easily spread to us too. Also, as a portion of GDP, the US wasn’t even close to the biggest contributor to WHO.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +3

Finally someone gets it. No country is doing humanitarian Aid just to help people. They do it for National Security. That's literally why the Peace Corps exists. It's a national security program. I'm totally in support of humanitarian and foreign aid, for many reasons and National Security is one of them. So is doing good things for disadvantaged people.

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redyellowblue5031 Mar 27, 2026 +1

For any hand wringing "financial conservatives" worried about wasting money I can't help but note just in the past few weeks: The Iran war has *already* cost over 25 billion dollars. That's more than a quarter century of WHO funding and not only that, we've directly lost American lives, killed children/civilians in Iran, and caused a global energy crunch which has so far cost Americans additional untold millions out of their pockets. But please, I would love to hear any one of these types defend the need to pull out because "we were getting taken advantage of".

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Over-Willingness-933 Mar 27, 2026

It has no soft power what so ever. If it had, we would not have these anti Western resolutions at the UN.

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redyellowblue5031 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Can you share what you view falls into that category?

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mahico79 Mar 27, 2026

The EU funds more international healthcare per capita than the USA so let’s not pretend the US is doing more than they are.

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UW_exploration Mar 27, 2026

Once again, the EU is not a single country, so the EU is collectively doing less than the USA.

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mahico79 Mar 27, 2026 +4

Do you know what per capita means?

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shatureg Mar 27, 2026 +2

F****** learn the concept of per capita. Jesus Christ.

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Crypt33x Mar 27, 2026 +1

Why is this stupidity upvoted?

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Djcalied Mar 27, 2026 +40

Seems like some commenters didn't bother to read the article at all. Main point has to do with US stopping FOREIGN aid to prevent diseases abroad in low/middle income countries, less so about domestic issues. Surely if this is truly such a global concern, another nation or group of nations will step up to the plate and fulfill this aid... Right? .... Right? Yeah didn't think so.

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CountChoculasGhost Mar 27, 2026 +9

They also mention the roll back of the vaccine schedule for children in America. So it isn’t just pulling back funding for foreign aid.

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cakebreaker2 Mar 27, 2026 +5

Yeah now were more in line with other developed nations.

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Snoo23533 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Yea how the hell is it the US fault just for stopping helping? Its not the same as actively making THEIR PROBLEMS worse so its bs to say were the cause.

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sask357 Mar 27, 2026 -3

The US has provided large amounts of foreign aid because it is such a rich country. Taken as percentages of GDP or GNI, US foreign aid was at similar levels to other developed countries. This was before the cuts so I dont know about the current situation.

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cakebreaker2 Mar 27, 2026 +7

If we're such a rich nation, we should make sure that every American is doing well before giving a dime to another country. But instead we're $40T in debt and people are poor as f***. WE need foreign aid.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +1

That's not why we do it.

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TheShruteFarmsCEO Mar 27, 2026 -8

Mentalities like yours are what make me f****** embarrassed to be an American lately. “F*** you, I got mine”, right up until the collapse of social order.

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Djcalied Mar 27, 2026 +3

So it's not America's job to play world police but it is their job to help everyone out globally? Meanwhile there's plenty of domestic problems we could use the money on, which is over 65 billion dollars annually. We're in debt 40 trillion btw. The rest of the world has been showing their true colors too, they f****** hate the US even without trump. Personally not a big fan of giving aid to a world that hates us. Meanwhile china gives basically no foreign aid and is worshipped. F*** off.

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TheShruteFarmsCEO Mar 28, 2026 +1

I can tell you’ve got a very superficial binary view on topics, so I won’t try to argue nuanced logic. But your response continues to perfectly capture the “ignorant American” stereotype…so well done.

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Djcalied Mar 28, 2026 +1

So when people don't agree with you, instead of engaging with a logical response, you simply call them ignorant. How very high class of you, name calling always signals extreme intelligence of course.

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

Do you have a passport? If you have the means, I’d strongly recommend backpacking through any corner of the world. You’ll learn many things

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Djcalied Mar 28, 2026 +1

I'm literally in Japan as I type this. Earlier this month I was in India and London before that. Cool assumptions though man 👍

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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 28, 2026 +1

That’s good, genuinely. Many people I’ve come across and debate in real life don’t even have a passport

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Djcalied Mar 28, 2026 +1

Americans typically don't travel internationally/globally as much as Europeans. Still not sure how it relates to the topic though honestly.

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CallmeKahn Mar 28, 2026 +3

This comment stream reminds me why I am neither Republican or Democrat. F****** hell, read people.

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ynotoggel19 Mar 27, 2026 +12

The worm is in charge and hates public health but loves R.Fjr brain

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Enough_Hospital2045 Mar 27, 2026 +2

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ihearhistoryrhyming Mar 27, 2026 +2

This article is terrible

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user1484 Mar 28, 2026 +2

If everyone is so concerned about the funding maybe they should take over.

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Wurschd Mar 27, 2026 +7

Couldn't we have a very selective early Rapture for these guys?

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neroselene Mar 27, 2026 +6

I'm afraid that the rapture already happened in 2015, and only 3 people were sent to heaven.

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Gimme_The_Loot Mar 27, 2026 +4

DYLAN DYLAN AND DYLAN

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Wurschd Mar 27, 2026 +4

And two of them came back because they didn't like the food

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pinkmeanie Mar 27, 2026 -1

Prince, Bowie, and Leonard Cohen died in 2016, not 15.

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ImNotTheBossOfYou Mar 27, 2026 +1

They'd love it. Win win.

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AceCircle990 Mar 27, 2026 +1

I completely understand the outrage with altering the childhood vaccination schedule, that part is f****** insanity. But I would like to see the data in regard to funding. What percentage was the US paying previously and what percentage are they paying in the present? It seems like now that the wallet is gone it’s time to blame the US.

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sask357 Mar 27, 2026

I don't know about the current numbers. As a percentage of GDP the US was funding similar relative amounts to foreign aid as were other developed countries.

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butwhywedothis Mar 27, 2026 -6

The world should require health certificates for Americans to allow them to their countries.

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SufficientState0 Mar 27, 2026 -1

I think this is the plan. It won’t be long before travelers from U.S.A. won’t be allowed entry.

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ST33LDI9ITAL Mar 27, 2026 +1

US healthcare system is criminal.

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ST33LDI9ITAL Mar 27, 2026 +2

True. Create problems to sell a solution for.

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Danno1850 Mar 27, 2026 +1

gUyS stop talking about parts of the article i don't agree with 👉👈

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Ok-Stretch2784 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Trump is tearing this country down piece by piece it so sad.People don’t seem to care don’t understand it.

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steve_ample Mar 27, 2026 -8

And these warnings and resultant deaths will fall on skeptical ears, because facts do not matter to them. Only ideology.

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DaveVdE Mar 27, 2026 -2

I guess Trump wanted a pandemic of his own.

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Radiant_Ad3966 Mar 27, 2026 +1

He had one and bumbled it like he does with everything.

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dougl1000 Mar 27, 2026

Measles is back. USA, USA!

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CallmeKahn Mar 28, 2026 +3

So you didn't read the article.

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WarSubstantial9352 Mar 27, 2026 -2

What some of you fail to realize is the US healthcare aid to these impoverished countries was a stop-gap measure. We were only there until their own government put in measures to help their own people. These governments did not make moves to provide for their own people, instead ( because of limited oversight by the US) medical supply companies continued to supply and government contracts for these supplies continued to be 'pencil-whipped' through the oval office. While you all are up in arms about the 'unfairness of it all', consider this: These countries have been bleeding the US dry to the point our people are in their own healthcare crisis. You can blame whomever you want, the BMJ can blame whomever they want, but the bottom line here is that the US wallet is empty, any healthcare resources we have must stay at home. The days when we could offer aid are done for the foreseeable future. Live with it.

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Miss_L_Worldwide Mar 27, 2026 +4

Hello, long career in international humanitarian projects with the US federal government over here. You are 100% wrong. That's not why we do International humanitarian aid.

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BigBogBotButt Mar 27, 2026 -6

Energy, health, rule of law ... The US is moving backwards on as many fronts as it can. The US voter got duped by a con man as he sells everything to the highest bidder for his personal gain. What a timeline.

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2xfun Mar 27, 2026 -1

And what are the American citizens doing? Nothing.

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Disastrous-Cellist62 Mar 27, 2026 -5

The US is also driving a Facism push of international concern.

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Far-Repeat-2926 Mar 27, 2026 -9

I hate that on seeing the headline my first thought is "oh god, which one?"

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P-a-n-a-m-a-m-a Mar 27, 2026 -5

I fear it is more than just a public health emergency they’re driving. Who would have imagined a global super power nosediving so quickly? Actually, I did. Back in 2016. I’m not a prophet - I’m just a girl making use of the braincells I have. How TF are we here?

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helzvogM Mar 27, 2026 -1

The trump administration is single handedly driving the leftist agenda. Degrowth and phase out off oil.

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nodigit Mar 27, 2026 -23

Still better than Canadas health care system.

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Only--East Mar 27, 2026 +5

Definitely not

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Captcha_Imagination Mar 27, 2026 +3

If you believe this, your entire brain is probably swimming in propaganda

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nodigit Mar 27, 2026 +3

My source comes from actual Canadians... not "right wing propaganda" Your brain is probably scrambled by lefty media ..

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Captcha_Imagination Mar 27, 2026 +3

I'm an actual Canadian. The Canadian system has never failed me or anyone I know. My mother and sister both have had cancer. My mother received experimental treatments that saved her life that never would have been approved by for-profit medicine. Her doctors were world-class. In the ten years she was treated, she spent a total of a few hundred bucks, and that was for parking. I have American relatives and their experience with health care is not only more expensive, in many cases it's worse. Only the people with net worths in 9 digits and above get better treatment than Canadians.

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Inside_Assumption157 Mar 27, 2026

I spent $600 and 5 hours in the ER in Dallas to get a Covid test done while struggling with a 101 fever and body aches all over. So no, it sucks. Even a 3rd world country like India (I’m Indian) doesn’t make you sit that long. We can see a doctor within minutes, not spend half our paychecks just for the bare minimum.

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nodigit Mar 27, 2026 +6

I bet there were 10 other places in the area you could've went to... and why would you go to the ER for a non-emergency...? And before you say "Having a 101 fever is a good reason to go to the emergency room"... even a quick ChatGPT prompt will tell you "A 101°F (38.3°C) fever with body aches by itself usually isn’t a reason to go to the emergency room",

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Cereal_Grapeist Mar 27, 2026 +3

Why on earth would you go to the ER and spend $600 for a COVID test? That is very very stupid.

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Inside_Assumption157 Mar 27, 2026 -1

I was new in the country and wasn’t aware there were prerequisites for ER. I was close to fainting, went there. They recommended a Covid test. Here in India we do go to the ER under such situations, it’s just easier for everybody.

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