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The article doesn't mention why this is suddenly an issue. They used to have a narrow choke point around Panama where they did this routinely to keep these things from ever getting into the US, but that was cut as part of the "government efficiency" fiasco, so now it's a widespread, growing, problem. Really the perfect example of why wildly cutting government spending without thought is not an 'efficient' approach to reducing spending.
There is also a picture of a screw-worm infected dog in the article, if you want to see what your republican sponsored future will be
It's worth noting that the current outbreak that's occurring north of Panama started prior to DOGE doing its bullshit. Apparently it began in 2022.
Worth noting that people still have no idea how much damage Trump and Republicans did the first go around.
I'm not saying they didn't do damage, but did they cut funding for this? There doesn't seem to be any evidence of that. There was an outbreak in Florida in 2016 before the 2022 outbreak
I'm not talking about who did what.
I'm talking about people who don't know what damage was done and the extent.
If they knew, and actually cared, things would not be as bad and getting worse.
This is an example of how bad they screwed things up this time!
I meant this is an example of how bad they screwed things up last time!
I meant I am not talking about who did what, but this is an example of what could happen because they screwed things up!
You seem very confused. What is the point of your comment or how do you relate it to my comments?
The first comment was about how DOGE and Trump 47 has caused this and how they used to have it contained at the Panama canal. Second comment states this has not been contained since at least 2022. Third comment, your first, states Trump 45 caused this. Fourth comment has examples from 2016, which is Obama. Then your second comment, fifth in the chain, states it isn’t about what actually was messed up but how they messed it up and how we don’t know the extent, completely changing the subject.
No it doesn't.
I hate Elon, Trump, DOGE, and MAGA as much as the next comrade, but I have seen no evidence this is the case. Where did you get this from?
Your comment made me think again at my sources. Re-researching starting with the link from @CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world and eventually through this Atlantic article it seems as though pandemic supply chain issues finally caught up to the fly factory.
But as @evenglow@lemmy.world said, I'd still chalk that up as first term damage, and Trump and DOGE should get screwworms.
But right after it mentions supply chain issues, it talks about unauthorized migration through the Darien Gap and the illegal cattle trade in Central America. Just saying, criticize where it's due, and Trump's due criticism for almost everything he's done, but this problem is complex and exists independently of him and independently of the United States
Protist gives examples from 2016. This isn’t a Trump issue, just a nature / maybe global warming one.
That dog pic is actually a little tame. I've seen some nightmare inducing pics of screwworm infections.
"MAGAts for maggots"
I read something different re: the cause.
Source
It happened while Biden was president, though. Like 2022|23.
I need to know who to blame, can I get a source?
I don't know if I'm going mad or the Internet has been scrubbed clean of it, but I can't find a source anywhere on my 2023 claim, now. It was an article I'd thought I read pretty recently.
There was a fairly recent article posted on Lemmy somewhere saying they had broken through, but I don’t remember it including a “why”