The mainstream media is blaming the United States’ budget cuts for a mysterious disease that’s been circulating in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  If the propaganda outlets are to be trusted, then teams that would typically be rushing to identify a fatal sickness are gone.

According to a report by Wired, the consequences of the United States rapidly slashing foreign aid have reverberated across the world. This is apparent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where an unidentified illness with Ebola-like symptoms has ravaged several villages. This sickness has killed over 60 people and sickened more than a thousand, and it is occurring at the same time as an Ebola outbreak in neighboring Uganda, as well as increasing political violence within the DRC.

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Experts say that Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has stymied the response to this unidentified disease, delaying further investigations and containment efforts of additional disease outbreaks. –Wired

“Medical staff along the Uganda–DRC border have been terminated. Soldiers are everywhere. The laboratory built to deal with zoonotic diseases with US funding is empty,” says Tim Allen, a London School of Economics professor and tropical-disease-control expert on the ground at the border of Uganda and the DRC.

Perhaps soldiers should have been eliminated instead of medical staff. The ruling classes are certainly showing their priorities lately. If health is more important, then maybe medical workers should be used instead of soldiers.

This goes for the United States, too. If chickens can be protected from the bird flu for the sake of creating a vaccine, then birds used as food for eggs and meat could also be protected.

The US State Department did not respond to requests for comment. “CDC is monitoring the situation closely and engaging with DRC officials on what support the agency can offer,” says Centers for Disease Control spokesperson Melissa Dibble.

The rulers’ priorities are war and mass vaccination, and that’s become glaringly obvious lately. What do you think? Are the priorities backwards? Let us know in the comments.