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Or, until the local health service is sufficient to manage the problem by itself. As you may recall, uncontrolled contagious diseases have a habit of escaping their local fish markets or virology labs.

USAIDS assistance for Zambia was 13 million USD, or about 0.12% of their government budget, or about 1.2% of their health budget. AIDS assistance comfortably fits in their government budget.

Let's face it. Trump made them choose to give or deny AIDS treatment to the poor, at a minimal cost to them. There were no real budgetary consequences to the Zambian government to do it. Relatively speaking it costs Zambians more than it would cost the US, but it's still not much, not to them either.

False choice. The US can choose many paths besides “maintain forever” and “cut off entirely without warning.”

It's often not clear what the intention is. Whether it is to facilitate spreading the disease or to actually end it.

If we don’t stop it there, it’ll spread faster here.

Same argument they make why we have to keep giving Israel money to kill Palestinians...

What the fuck are you even talking about?

The US had to leave the medicine rot in warehouses. The AI chatbot said it was DEI.