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Michael Downey 🧢

🇺🇸 :flag_un: The United States has just withdrawn its funding for the World Health Organization, who for 75 years have led the charge to protect lives and improve health everywhere.

🌍 Please give what you can.

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donate.who.foundation

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Proud that despite these cuts, I'll still be joining colleagues for a panel on how we can all strengthen for public good in the face of global challenges, coming up at @FOSSBackstage in March:

25.foss-backstage.de/session/h

FOSS Backstage 2025 · How do you measure ‘public good’ in open source and beyond?
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@downey Trump was a mistake in every sense of the word.

@downey

The USA ceased to exist on Jan 20, 2025.

It's now the FSA—Fascistic States of America.

@downey Time to move the WHO out of America, losing all those American jobs.

@downey Health in the US seems a joke with insurers and obesity

@downey
A gift to the Gates foundation. They are even more important now ;-(

@jele Moreso China than BMGF (IMHO) but point is well taken. Just like climate, the world will keep working on public health with or without the US. But it would be much better to have them at the table.

@downey
Especially as they are still an anchor state for others 🤷