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Withholding medical treatments for profit? Allowing media to knowingly lie about the risks and benefits of medical treatments for short term financial gains? W

by crest 2y ago

Withholding medical treatments for profit? Allowing media to knowingly lie about the risks and benefits of medical treatments for short term financial gains? We could’ve a world without TB not just a few nation states without it. Pathogens don’t recognize lines on maps unless draconian border security prevents all hosts from crossing said lines. I don’t think you want to close all sea- and airports, built and maintain a continuous line of watch towers and minefields, enforce shoot to kill orders and pay for it all right? It wouldn’t just be immoral and stupid, but also more expensive (in case you don’t give a fuck about people that don’t look like your immediate family).

zabzonk 2y ago
> I don’t think you want to close all sea- and airports, built and maintain a continuous line of watch towers and minefields, enforce shoot to kill orders and pay for it all right? It wouldn’t just be immoral and stupid, but also more expensive Quite. But some people here do seem to want this. TB is not a moral disease (there are no such), not a disease of immigrants (when I worked in Edinburgh in the 1970s it was all over the place among Scots), and is very treatable if you can a) pay for the quite cheap treatment and b) educate people to keep taking it. You can also immunise against it.