Anonymous #1 2d

What would be an example of reckless use of America 1st?

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Anonymous OP 2d

completely disregarding all of our alliances which is a bad idea

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Anonymous OP 2d

Acting as though infectious disease programs abroad don’t help us at home

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Anonymous #2 2d

Explain how they help.

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Anonymous OP 2d

have you ever heard of a pandemic

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Anonymous OP 2d

We can identify new diseases as they evolve and ensure their impact is minimal when they reach the US. Just look at Ebola as an example. We do the same for malaria and have been doing this for HIV. It’s pretty cheap and saves many lives abroad and at home

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Anonymous #2 2d

So still, why can’t we do that here?

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Anonymous OP 2d

Why can’t we monitor for diseases that aren’t in the US yet?

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Anonymous OP 2d

not all diseases start in the us

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Anonymous #2 2d

Correction: AIDS programs aren’t very cheap. There’s a huge impact though and it does help the US too

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Anonymous #1 2d

So you’re telling me with the technology we have today we can’t study a disease before it affects someone here?

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Anonymous OP 2d

How are we supposed to do that? Set up cameras in every doctor’s office there? Read through all of the medical records?

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Anonymous #2 2d

Get samples of the diseases maybe? Hence why we already have samples of diseases that have never been reported here.

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Anonymous OP 2d

Some of these countries don’t have the equipment to sequence these samples quickly, and we still need to see the clinical presentation. The sample doesn’t tell us that

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Anonymous OP 2d

as a biology grad student, i beg of you to stop making suggestions on where/how the study of global diseases should be conducted… you aren’t aware of the logistics nor of how pathology is researched, so please refrain from speaking on that…

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Anonymous #3 2d

Then speak on it.

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Anonymous OP 2d

I would need like an hour of conversation with you to explain why nothing you suggested is even close to being logically possible within pathology. In fact, what you said about bringing samples here would be the opposite of all laboratory safety precautions regarding biohazards of any kind. you can’t just ship a highly volatile or highly sensitive biohazardous sample by airmail & just say “hope it makes it there without spreading said disease or causing a massive biohazard shutdown!”

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Anonymous #3 2d

Let me DM you and you can send me all the info.

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Anonymous OP 2d

This is all googleable 😭 did you think it was possible to do this a cheaper way and no one ever considered it?

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Anonymous OP 2d

plus, not every country has access to the correct PPE (personal protective equipment) to study a rapidly spreading illness properly. if we have our pathologists on standby, they can help with the research while simultaneously sending info to our CDC so we can be proactive about potential cases & how to prevent, diagnose, and treat it before it spreads out of control. without that knowledge nor those relationships with other pathologists around the globe, we get blindsided.

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Anonymous OP 2d

i don’t have a textbook on this stuff. this is a B.S. in Biology’s worth of knowledge accumulating into a common sense understanding. just because you don’t have that background doesn’t mean you’re stupid for just not knowing what i know… but you walk yourself into being an ultracrepidarian when you start making suggestions or expressing opinions on topics or subjects that are *entirely outside the scope of your knowledge or expertise.*

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don’t tell them to do that, it’ll just ruin the learning by providing confirmation bias when they start trying to ask it how we COULD do it the way they described.

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Anonymous #3 2d

Shit that’s true lmao

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Anonymous #3 2d

I didn’t bring up diseases another comment did. You’re right I don’t have a background in it, but neither do a lot of policy makers spending the money on the issue. I asked a question and made a suggestion, I did not say this is the way it needed to be done. I apologize if my ignorance to the matter offended you, but that was the extent of my comments.

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