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Greg Lanman's avatar

We are asking ourselves these same questions at the world's premier public health organization. Public Health Responses require the participation, collaboration, and cooperation of STLT, NGOs, and Federal agencies. And the changing landscape of funding that supports public health responses, coupled with the destruction of various federal agencies; and America could easily find itself unable to adequately provide a response to either an infectious disease outbreak or a natural disaster. The actions taken over the last 78 days have had an adverse impact on America's capabilities and capacity to conduct public health responses.

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Gordon MacDonald's avatar

In the summer of 2022 we had cause to visit Colorado and made a cross border road trip. Covid was still in play, though as we crossed state after state we noted that the general populace was not overly concerned about residual risk.

With a lapse of personal responsibility, I became infected. I was amazed at the local support in Colorado, was triaged and treated quickly. An excellent result.

Now, watching the news from the USA, one has to wonder about the increased risk of disease when the leadership is blasé about managing outbreaks and are actively eliminating functions and staffing accordingly.

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Yet another reason to carefully consider the need travel to the USA.

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Kirsten L. Held's avatar

I hate to say it, but please don't visit the US right now. If people in other countries really want to help us, they need to band together and make themselves as independent of the US as possible as quickly as possible and isolate us. Yes, this will hurt many of us here in the US, but this regime MUST be stopped at all costs. Some of us are desperately counting on citizens in other countries to help us stop this madness. As powerful as the US is, the rest of the world must unite in reigning Trump in just as counties banded together to fight Hitler. It is absolutely that bad right now. Anybody who doesn't think so is in denial.

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Gina Stein's avatar

Absolutely 100% o

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