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Anonymous
| Americans are sicker and unhealthier than any other major country because we don't have universal health care, unlike every other major country. |
Anonymous
No, a friend worked with him. Most people hated him at NIH. |
Anonymous
Look, I agree that it wasn't perfect. It is wrong schools were shutdown while liquor and video game stores were open. I remember game stop finagling the system in order to remain open. But it was unprecedented times. You can't expect perfection during a catastrophic pandemic. Even the whole PPP loan handout had a lot of bad case study examples of where it was abused, but overall, the problem helped a ton. Issues like these are never binary and they're never all good or only all bad. Perfection cannot be the enemy of good. It's also easier to sit there in hindsight and cast judgment on what should have been done so response was perfect. Much different story when we were actually in the trenches during the peak of a global pandemic. |
Anonymous
I don’t think he’s corrupt. I didn’t vote for Trump either (because fascism). However, I recognize the link between big pharma, government regulation, big food, and health. Government accepts and approves medications and makes dietary recommendations that further big Pharma and big food so they can further lobby for more of the same. This all negatively impact health. Our medical system should not have that much medication covering up for a poor diet because of all of that money. |
Anonymous
Ban the poison food, and we’ll need fewer drugs. Pharma stocks will continue to plummet. |
Anonymous
Lots of Democrat politicians admire RFK’s wisdom and experience. Good for them. |
Anonymous
And you should go look up who gets a ton of those lobbying dollars from big ag, pharma, and the food industry. Don't be surprised when you find it is a bunch of Republicans. Also, it was the GOP who basically let Citizens United ruling pour in unlimited funding dollars to pols via opaque channels. Citizens United ruined the country. |
Anonymous
That's just one. Who are the others? |
Anonymous
You seem to make too many assumptions about others. What does they say about you? Notice how I didn’t mention any political party in my post? They are both the same in this way. |
Anonymous
I am not a raw milk drinker, but open a history book. Pasteurization was a MASSIVE advancement in the history of human health -- actually listed as one of the big three of the 20th century. So many children died from the bacteria in milk...SO MANY...BUT, that's because our cold storage was trash, and milk would literally be rotting on doorsteps. Times have changed! The people selling raw milk are just...farmers selling milk from udder to glass, essentially. This is not any different that buying some beef at a farmers market that hasn't been pumped full of medicine. Dairy farmers all over the country milk a cow, then pour it into a glass for their kids. Are they bad parents? When you get that coveted reservation at Stone Barns and the chef serves you a dairy dish "straight from our artisanal cows out back" are you reporting them to the FDA? You people hate Trump so much that you are blind to common sense. If some rich, crunchy mom wants to meet her farmer and buy his milk, let her. |
Look, we had very different hygiene and sanitation standards and technology before. When you remove feces and other pollutants from water and food supply and introduce antibiotics most things that used to kill people in early age are rather manageable. But lets not forget that people are still dying TODAY at a young age and certainly in middle age from things like cancer, heart disease, genetic conditions, diabetes, etc. Cancer is on the rise, I actually don't know if our life expectancy will be any better than our ancestors in the dark ages pretty soon if we don't do something about it.
Anonymous
Many of us were fighting this battle at the time, because it was as absurd then as it looks in hindsight. The experts were wrong on almost everything during Covid. The way we moved on from Covid is how we should have treated it from the beginning, and that is by treating it like the flu. Experts had to be fought tooth-and-nail at every step. They were downright harmful, and predictably so. The only reason people carry water for them is because they've blocked this sordid episode out of their minds. |
Anonymous
How does that prove “experts like Fauci are corrupted as hell” or that Trump didn’t purposely sow distrust to avoid a bad stock market? |
Anonymous
The point is that while you drone on and on about undue influence from multiple industries in the govt, the GOP is in power and many of them are the exact recipients of much of the lobbying dollars. You are hopelessly naive if you think anything will change when the party in power gets much of the lobbying dollars. The GOP and Trump should kill Citizens United first if they really want to clean up the DC swamp. See how well that goes in DC with Trump and the GOP. They talk the talk, but don't truly walk the walk. They'll never kill CU. |
Anonymous
The experts were not wrong on “almost everything.” |
Anonymous
It’s almost as if every agricultural milestone was meant just to bring more people with less nutrition. For example, cereals and grains are basically void of nutrition. Nonetheless, advances in irrigation, transportation, and storage, meant that humans could produce much more of them to feed society. The result is a larger population, but with nutritional deficiencies. The same is true for pasteurization. It allows the safe production to scale of dairy, but at a reduced nutritional value |