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Bird flu could become a human pandemic. How are countries preparing? (www.nature.com)

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Wealthy nations are purchasing vaccines against H5N1 influenza and boosting surveillance, but there are concerns that low-income countries will be left behind.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

"Why is America so small on this map? Why are we not the only country? People tell me, no it's it's true, they do, they say America is the only country on the map. Everybody knows it. Our maps are yuge. We have the best maps. You know in the 1980s, I was going to buy a map making factory. All the jobs would stay in America, instead of going to ChGina. We would print all the maps if I did that. Everybody would want a trump map. That's what they'd call it, because everybody loves me. And then I would buy Greenland, and keep the Mexicans out of the borders. We would have built a wall on the borders of Greenland and Mexico. The Mexicans would be so happy that we're providing them shade. They'd even pay for our beautiful wall. Better than the great wall of ChGina!"

I feel like my only two mistakes in this impersonation are:

It's too coherent.
It stayed on topic.

Ideally he would never fully finish a sentence, yet still somehow come off as racist. All the while drifting from topic to topic, while also saying nothing at all.