In 1978, Sweet had a hit with Love Is Like Oxygen. The chorus was simple enough. You get too much, you get too high. Not enough, and you’re doing to die. Love makes you high. So does a lot of American dollars sent to NGO’s.
Sarah Newey, the global health security correspondent for the Telegraph based in Bangkok, Thailand, filed this report about the first victim of Elon Musk and DOGE’s USAID cuts.
Here’s the takeaway.
A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was cut off when the United States announced a freeze on aid funding.
Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighbouring Thailand, died four days after she was discharged from a USAID-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
She is thought to be one of the first people to have died as a direct result of Washington’s…
