• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    The administration has maintained that shorter flight times to Europe are the reason why Americans who get Ebola will be sent there for care.

    That seems… Plausible. But after the state department told Americans abroad in the middle East to “fend for yourself” when Trump started a war it’s questionable.

    Trump doesn’t get benefit of the doubt.

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      11 hours ago

      Funny how they can work that out when it comes to their citizens who are ill needing fast treatment but POTUS and Hegseth are too stupid to work out that’s the same reason they have Ramstein in Germany as part of their NATO deployment.

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      14 hours ago

      In what world is intercontinental flight faster than in-house? Even if you start in Atlanta right beside the CDC itself you’ve got to fly roughly the length of usa to reach the coast of Europe lol

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        8 hours ago

        The only American who has tested positive so far, a surgeon who had been working at a Congo hospital, was flown to Germany.

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        13 hours ago

        I think the premise is that Ebola cases are currently only in Africa, so if a US citizen catches it, that means they’re already across the Atlantic Ocean and, yes, Europe would be closer.