And amongst the many great things that USAID does, it also serves us by helping keep local epidemics from going Global. (9/🧵)

youtu.be/OIHJub72vuM?...

Trump pulled us out of the World Health Organization (WHO), and now other countries are pulling out too, to make cozy with Trump. (8/🧵)

www.bbc.com/news/article...

But I digress. Reason 3 we’re all tee’d-up for another bad epidemic/pandemic: Trump has, almost systematically, cut off the early warning systems for epidemics around the world. (7/🧵)

That is why dictators go after the press and intellectuals first; when dictators can’t get scientists and historians and journalists to give them the answer they want, they try to stop them from speaking at all. (6/🧵)

When you subvert science to politics you get incredibly bad results and no science. Because Science deals in reality, it doesn’t bend to the will of a dictator. (5/🧵)

Reason 2) comes from the same website “CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.” Trump is interfering with the scientists and doctors whose jobs it is to keep us safe from another epidemic.

Reasons why: 1) Bird Flu has been on the rise. From the CDC website: “Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5) viruses have been detected in U.S. wild aquatic birds, commercial poultry and backyard or hobbyist flocks beginning in January 2022.” (3/🧵)

www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/sit...

Of course, predicting an epidemic is not based on magical fortune telling, it’s just playing the odds and looking at the situation. (2/🧵)

How about Michigan? Can we get in on this action?

I just remember that the movie made me sick because the camera work was so shaky… it actually added to the fear.

Hey! I’m a chemical engineer and material scientist who has worked on lots of technologies from composites to ultra capacitors. I’ve worked in Med Device and Pharma the last decade, but I’m still curious by innovative materials applications in all fields.