Ebola and ... Today's compilation

 #Ebola #USAID #WorldCup #CopaMundial

spillover event (animal to human transmission) vs crossover event (human to human)

I keep sitting with two questions:

Where are the mining companies that operate in the DRC? Surely Ebola is bad for business and I naively think it would be EXCELLENT if they can pitch in for supplies and education. I find it disgusting to see lots of comments basically throwing up people's hands because public health is hard because of mining. If mining contracts are worth anything, shouldn't there be parallel investment in local public health?

Also, why send people from the US to Kenya rather than home to all the supposedly top notch facilities there are in te US? I saw one report that the President has ordered the US military to build a facility able to handle 50 people and to build it within 7 days. What's that about? Are there people doing covert ops that need protection? and why Kenya? What does Kenya get out of the deal?

Trump administration's Ebola facility in Kenya will only treat Americans

Kenyan doctors union threatening a strike over this proposal.

Telling US citizens they can't come home is probably unconstitutional.

Airport screenings are one (thin) layer of protection because of long incubation period.

Ebola in DR Congo: Can a country in conflict contain it? | DW News

War in the DRC could make the outbreak worse.

Symptoms less dramatic, less violent than other strains.

FRANK and incisive comments from the DRC Foreign Minister

Rwanda SHOULD WITHDRAW from the part of the DRC they occupy and their puppet government set up by Rwanda, the M23, has no relevant expertise.

LONG history of Rwanda in the DRC

Rwandan army, 4th largest contributor of UN peacekeepers (?!?!?) under US sanctions

Two houses in Iceland

 Lately RantWoman has gotten interested in construction techniques and other strategies for surviving COLD climates.

Here, one old, traditional, and one modern.

A German living in Iceland

Transit Corridors Ride Along Saturday May 30.

 Just to advertise RantWoman's transportation and sustainability cred, a cool sounding event that RantWoman will miss because of a conflict.

Apologies for the formatting peculiarities. One of these days RantWoman will either learn how to fix herself or get monetized enough to hire someone to help.

In the meantime, this excursion is Saturday and should be informative

Join us this weekend for a Transit Corridors Ride-Along!

 

Howdy  BEEP BEEP! The Complete Communities Coalition is bussing around Seattle with City Leadership and we’re coming to a neighborhood center near you. On Saturday, May 30th, the CCC will be heading to every district in the City where we’ll chat about transit corridors, our comprehensive plan, and more. Starting at 9:30am in West Seattle and ending in Queen Anne at 6pm, we’re excited to tour around Seattle and dream big for a more affordable, transit friendly, and vibrant city. Join us at your district’s stop and learn about how we can help move our city into brighter direction! Join us! Bus Tour Schedule District 1 (9:30am-10:05am) QED Coffee, 6080 35th Ave SW. District 2 (10:45am-11:20am) Hing Hay Park, 423 Maynard Ave S.  District 3 (12pm-12:45pm) Madison Pagliaccis, 3015 E Madison St. District 4 (1:30pm-2pm) Armistice Coffee, 6717 Roosevelt Way NE. District 5 (2:45pm-3:20pm) Broadview Diva Espresso, 10555 Greenwood Ave N. District 6 (3:55pm-4:25pm) Chess Park/Heart of Phinney Park, 6532 Phinney Ave N. District 7 (5:30pm-6pm) Sully's Bar, 1625 Queen Anne Ave N.  Thank you for being a part of this journey with us and supporting more housing across our amazing city!    In Solidarity, Jazmine Smith Director of Local Advocacy

RantWoman synopsis: Don't eat the puffins--even if they are on the menu, or a bunch of other things

 Tour tips

quirky Iceland behaviors

9 Weird Things ONLY Icelanders Do!

Tasting Traditional Icelandic Food (Þorrablót) 🤢🇮🇸

If even the locals need strong drink to enjoy some of the national foods...

Readers with a weak stomach might want to skip or read up some other way.

Eating the Fermented Food of Iceland 2026 🤢 🇮🇸 Traditional Thorrablot Festival

Princeton Baccalaureate and Graduation 2026

 

RantWoman paid embarassingly little attenttion to the speech at her own graduation and is not even sure she attended Baccalaureat. To compensate for that, and to appreciate this year's offerings:

"In a world that is increasingly loud and self-focused, being the person who 'sets the screen' is a superpower. It’s easy to be the person with the ball; it’s much harder, and much more rewarding, to be the person who creates the space for someone else to score. Whether you end… pic.twitter.com/3AHwsyTIxv

— Princeton University (@Princeton) May 24, 2026

Full text of remarks.
At Baccalaureate, Craig Robinson '83 urges seniors: 'Be a work in progress'

As for commencement:

At #Princeton26 Commencement, President Eisgruber called on graduating students to have the courage to confront challenges and stand up for the values of learning, independent thinking and integrity that higher education institutions like Princeton hold dear.

“I know that all… pic.twitter.com/814ZYKieh3

— Princeton University (@Princeton) May 26, 2026

Full text of speech, WITH FOOTNOTES, as well as links about other graduation events.

President Eisgruber's Commencement address: 'Learning, Citizenship, and the Courage to Be Unpopular'

RantWoman is going to let all these words stand on their own. 

RantWoman finds it easy to hear these words as "make good trouble." That gross oversimplification is unfair to all the challenges of being President of Princeton at this time, so RantWoman promises to go full rant separately.

Ebola outbreak as of today

#Ebola #DRC #WHO 

Comment RantWoman posted

Are the mining companies operating in the area being asked to contribute to public health efforts to fight they epidemic? Presumably Ebola outbreaks are bad for business, and I would hope the companies operating in the Congo can step up i culturally insightful ways.

Blistering words from someone with reason to know!

Doctor who survived Ebola says there needs to be ‘less lip service and more boots on the ground’

Health workers in Africa struggle to slow Ebola outbreak

As if the consequences of the US pulling out of the World Health Organization were not already embarrassing enough,

It is widely reported in reputable outlets that PResident #StableGenius has prohibited experts still working from the US government from talking directly with WHO personnel. Now such conversations are supposed to pass up the chain of command through Secretary of HHS Kennedy. What could possibly go wrong with that???

And it gets worse: Now Bloomberg is reporting that #BrainwormBob is looking for VOLUNTEERS to go to airports and help screen people for Ebola symptoms. Of course, both competent professionals and the travelling public will find this approach ever so reassuring. Perhaps Secretary Kennedy could be first in line to volunteer followed by the people from ICE already getting paid? 

The Terrifying Reality of Fighting Ebola in Africa | 60 Minutes Australia

May is maternal health awareness month

 Deal #AI techbros.

Beat this. 

Talk to, involve actual HUMANS, like oh say, MOMS postpartum.