Overnight, the Ugandan government has closed its borders to DRC travelers. The nation has cut off overland crossings, and will not accept air-travel from DRC. This, as well over 1,000 are now ill in this the thirteenth Ebola outbreak in Africa — and well over 252 are considered fatalities from it.

Yes, this is what Elon’s — and Donald’s — handiwork looks like, as it comes to ripened fruition — about a year later. Here is the latest, from Vox (news summary and analysis):

…Shortly after brandishing his infamous chainsaw on a conservative conference stage last February, Elon Musk attended a Cabinet meeting where, giggling slyly, he admitted to having “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention in his haste to obliterate the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

“We restored the Ebola prevention immediately,” he added coolly at the time, “and there was no interruption.” That claim has since proven to be disastrously, profoundly untrue.

On May 17, the World Health Organization declared a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda a “public health emergency of international concern….”

[For its part, the WHO strongly disfavors closed borders. Here’s that:] “No country should close its borders or place any restrictions on travel and trade. Such measures are usually implemented out of fear and have no basis in science,” the World Health Organization said in its declaration of this outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern, while acknowledging that neighboring countries are at high risk.

The WHO added: “They push the movement of people and goods to informal border crossings that are not monitored, thus increasing the chances of the spread of disease.”

It said infected people or those who have been in contact with them should not undertake international travel unless it’s a medical evacuation….

What a supremely unscientific — and evil — cabal these folks represent. Damn. Time for a sunny warm ride by the glassy lake, I guess… smile.

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