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      Let’s put the blame squarely where it really belongs — on the backs of the millions of uneducated racist voters who would rather have a convicted felon, racist, pedophile as president than an intelligent black woman.

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    Watching as in wanting to copy the incident? The US watching anything inspires absolutely no confidence.

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    “Big pharma won’t tell you this, but what you need to do is shove a firecracker lubricated with the blood of 16 Venezuelan Poodle Moths up your butt, light it, and chug a class of lemur semen before it detonates. It is very, very difficult for the plague to take hold in a body that’s been through that” -RFK Jr. probably

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      Well you got another 1-3 years before they expire. Probably still better than most after that too, but they do expire.

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      From the doctor interviewed in the article:

      “But of course people’s thought with any outbreak of infectious disease at all runs to… lockdowns and Covid and that is just not what’s going to happen here.”

      Having N95 masks is a great idea. You’re not going to need it for this one

      Unfamiliar diseases are scary, but this is not a very infectious disease. Fears of a pandemic are unfounded in this case

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    Asked what Washington was going to do about the risk of plague spreading from Russia, Trump said he had not spoken to the Kremlin about it.

    “I hate to see them having it,” he said, but added: “We’ll help. Everybody who has that kind of a problem, we’ll always help.”

    Also Trump: They could take out a city. Let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego. This is a ​very small price to pay.

    If it’s not clear who he works for, you’re really fucking stupid.

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      “I hate to see them having it,” he said, but added: “We’ll help. Everybody who has that kind of a problem, we’ll always help.”

      • Aggressive tyrants mass-murdering neighbors. Dropped a potential bioweapon. Oopsie.

      🟠<br> 👍👍

      • Starving people and disaster relief worldwide via USAID

      🟠<br>🖕🖕

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      The way to combat pneumonic plague is regular exercise, eat lots of vegetables, and get a good night’s rest.

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    From my 5 min toilet research the plague still has active cases per year so its not like it was extinct before. Mostly spreads with fleas and rats, which are not that of a problem in the developed world.

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      Highly unlikely. In stark contrast to other warmongering nations Russia’s battlefield isn’t over the ocean.

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          Don’t even need drones or rats for that. Russia has soldiers there. Contrary to media reports, most of them are actually survive to be rotated back home. They would bring the pathogene home with them.

          Bio weapons can’t be made to discern between friend and foe because there really isn’t any difference for them to detect. And it’s literally Slavs against Slavs there anyway; it’s basically a civil war with western involvement.

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    You think the whole purpose isn’t to turn it loose on the US? Get the job done much faster than H5N1.

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      We have the exact same facility in Georgia, USA, and it has had incidents before.

      Is the purpose of that one also to turn it loose on the US?

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    How closely could they possibly be “watching” under this regime, honestly?

    All the safeguards have been dismantled in the USA.