Elon Musk Made Ebola WORSE

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]A few weeks back, I talked about the pandemic that isn't actually happening, haunt virus. In the time since then, there have been four new cases and no new deaths. And the director general of the World Health Organization has announced that all passengers and crew are still in quarantine and the situation is stable. I know this is going to be very disappointing news for the guys in the comments of the previous video who insisted that I must be wrong because I said the same thing about CO, which I did not. Uh, in the first week of February of 2020, I told people that panicking would not help anything and that people outside of Wuhan were not at immediate risk of death. That people in China were at risk and should take precautions like wearing masks, avoiding crowds, and waiting for a vaccine and taking it when it's available, and that we all need to pay attention because this was probably going to spread and become a worldwide pandemic. All of those things were correct. Just like my video on haunt virus is currently correct. It is not a pandemic and experts do not think that it will become a pandemic. All of this happens not because I'm some infallible genius. It's because I'm just telling you what the actual consensus is amongst the experts in the relevant field. Crazy, right? I know. One weird trick to almost always being right. Listen to the people who know what they're talking about. With that in mind, I wanted to take a moment to talk about a disease that unlike the Andes virus does have a high body count and is currently not under control, and that is Ebola. As of this recording, there have been 746 suspected cases and 176 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or DRC and a few more over the border in Uganda. The disease, which is severe and fatal in about 50% of cases, sometimes as much as 90%, was spreading through the community for some time before it was identified due in part to the researchers testing for the wrong virus. As there are four different viruses that cause this disease and this ended up being one of the less common ones. It spreads amongst humans through direct contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people and with surfaces and materials like bedding and clothing contaminated with these fluids.

[00:02:19]The World Health Organization has coordinated a response to stop the spread, but they are running into trouble. Last week, Congo residents burned down one of the treatment centers set up to help them. WTF is wrong with these people. Cry Redditors in which subreddit is this? Ah, yes. Lockdown skepticism. A home for those who were skeptical of an ongoing lockdown as an effective way to manage the Corona virus pandemic. Yeah, what the [ __ ] is wrong with these people? What a bunch of low IQ dumbasses, exclaimed the users of the Jordan Peterson subreddit. We just need to stop feeding and giving aid to these people and let Darwin do his thing. Wow, if only this particular eugenicist had scrolled all the way down and read this comment, which was at the bottom hidden due to too many down votes. The Doge dismantling of USAID negatively impacted monitoring of disease outbreaks around the world and global health programs.

[00:03:12]There will be ripple effects for years to come. Down votes from the pro Peterson brigade aside, that person is absolutely correct. After Elon Musk and his merry band of morons took a sledgehammer to USID last year, one data analyst calculated that it led to one person dying somewhere in the world every 2 minutes, usually a child. The cuts affected food programs, HIV AIDS prevention, and yes, efforts to stop Ebola, specifically Ebola. Here's Elon laughing about accidentally cancelling USAD's Ebola program.

[00:03:47]>> And and we bring the receipts. So people say like, "Well, is this real? Just go to doge.gov. We we line item by line item, we specify each item." So, and we and I I should say we also we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect but when we uh make a mistake we'll fix it very quickly. Uh so for example with uh USA ID uh one of the things we accidentally cancelled very briefly was Ebola Ebola prevention. I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately and there was no interruption. Um >> Wired and the Washington Post both investigated his claim that the funding was immediately restored and found it unsurprisingly to be a big fat lie.

[00:04:29]Trump also pulled the US out of the World Health Organization while RFK Junior's HHS insisted that a lab studying Ebola completely give up all of their research. Like literally padlocks on the doors of the fridges. As someone who in general is highly critical of the US's attempts to influence people in other countries, I have long been critical of some of what USID has done.

[00:04:56]It's always been a tool of influence. Uh but these programs were unequivocally good. They were influencing people in other countries to trust the US government by keeping them healthy and alive. And boy were these programs already up against a tough opponent, which is the US itself. Not just America, of course, Europe as well. For centuries, white colonizers have been destroying Africa, stealing their land and their resources, installing puppet regimes, and yes, medically experimenting upon them in horrifically cruel ways. It happened so often there's an entire Wikipedia page about it. Fizer killing 11 kids in an antibiotic trial.

[00:05:37]the CDC and World Health Organization funding a trial in which they gave pregnant women a placebo instead of medication that would prevent their transmission of HIV to their fetuses, resulting in at least a thousand babies being born with HIV. Force sterilization programs over and over and over again.

[00:05:56]Aid workers can't just walk into these communities and expect trust. They have to already be in those communities building that trust. When Elon Musk threw away US ID, he not only threw away the very monitors who were there to detect Ebola before it got out of control, but he also threw away the people who were there to coordinate with the community, to educate them, to address their concerns, and to prevent an epidemic or prevent something like, you know, the local community burning down the AIDS center. One of the reasons that Ebola spreads so easily is because of the area's cultural traditions surrounding death, which involves a lot of handling of the body and acts that could contaminate drinking water. In 2014, for example, one Ebola outbreak that led to 85 cases was traced back to a single funeral. As detailed in this CDC report, the authors concluded that to control Ebola transmission in difficultto-reach communities in Guinea, targeted involvement of community leaders and enhancement of public health interventions are crucial for the proper implementation of Ebola prevention and control strategies. These enhancements include educating the community regarding the signs and symptoms of Ebola and its modes of transmission.

[00:07:08]two, stressing the importance of seeking medical care and reporting suspected Ebola cases. And three, emphasizing the potential benefit of early diagnosis and treatment. Targeted education strategies and health communication messages in local languages can help decrease the concerns of groups resistant to the Ebola intervention efforts of local public health officials and can facilitate the isolation and limited treatment of patients who are unwilling or unable to seek care at an ETC. In other words, you can't just wait for someone to notice an outbreak, throw a bunch of doctors at it, and think it's going to be easily contained. When those doctors prevent people from doing what they have always done culturally to honor their dead, they're going to get angry and do things like burn down the facility that is preventing them from doing these things because they don't understand because we don't have the people there on the ground educating them because in part of Elon Musk even if we guillotine Elon Musk and Trump tomorrow, which to be clear for YouTube I do not support in any way. We're still looking at decades of work to rebuild the resources and infrastructure that USID has supported. So, I know most people who aren't in Africa want to know, could this Ebola outbreak turn into the next pandemic? It's possible, but it doesn't seem like any experts think it's likely. An ex CDC director said, I suspect this is going to become a very significant pandemic. But that was Trump appointee Robert Redfield speaking to News Nation. That would be like quoting Cash Patel telling Joe Rogan that he suspects Bat Boy is going to finally be captured this year. Like shut up. You're all idiots. But yes, it is a real threat for the communities in and around the current outbreak and it has been found in major cities and we are very much a connected world. So as with CO, we could see this make the jump to other places. But unlike CO, you aren't going to get it just by having dinner with someone who is infected and doesn't know it. You can only get it by interacting with an infected animal, which is unlikely for most of my audience, I suspect, as it would likely involve eating an African fruit bat, or by getting the blood, feces, urine, sweat, or other bodily fluid into your own eyes, nose, mouth, or open wound from an infected person showing symptoms. A person doesn't start spreading the disease until they show symptoms. Though, a man who has recovered from Ebola could spread the disease via oral, anal, or vaginal sex.

[00:09:48]So, the risk of this affecting my mostly western audience is low, as it's far easier to avoid getting this disease if you don't have the same uh funeral customs and if you're educated about where Ebola is and how it spreads. But that said, we saw what happened during CO. There are plenty of populations here where they might not be educated about it and have cultural traditions that do exacerbate the situation. And there's apparently still an active subreddit all about being skeptical of the very obvious benefit of quarantine. and they have so little self-awareness that they're asking what the [ __ ] is wrong with these Ebola victims when in the event of Ebola becoming a pandemic and hitting the United States, they themselves would absolutely be drinking the blood of their recently dead relatives to own the libs or whatever.

[00:10:41]So anyway, yeah, as usual, my advice is don't panic, but do pay attention to what's happening and understand why it's happening and what we need to do to prevent it in the future.

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