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There are two ways to make a population healthy. You can either eliminate sick people through treatment, or eliminate sick people through death. I think this ad

There are two ways to make a population healthy. You can either eliminate sick people through treatment, or eliminate sick people through death. I think this administration is picking the latter.

HarryHirsch 1y ago
You can also provide clean air and mandate such and such a turnover of fresh air, and you can have paid sick days, so that employees don't drag themselves in with respiratory illness and infect the rest of the staff. But it's America, can't have such.
- maximilianburke 1y ago
  (I kinda was hoping that would fall under the former, heh)
  - pabs3 1y ago
    That is less about treatement and more about prevention, which the UK NHS is planning on shifting focus to. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/nhs-health-policy-labour-ten-year-plan-change https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/nhs-health-p...
lvspiff 1y ago
They are picking the “un-rich” latter. The rich can still have all the vaccines they want they just gotta pay for it. Same goes for healthcare. If you don’t have a job and arent independently wealthy well screw you dont care about you anyways. So its not just a purge of the sick people its a purge of the poor as well. I dont think they have an endgame other than at the end they’ve accumulated all the wealth and power possible…nothing about making population healthy
- conception 1y ago
  The rich aren’t funding their own vaccine research.
  - DrScientist 1y ago
    Indeed - even if not strictly true - ( https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-health/vaccine-development-and-surveillance https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-hea... ). Though the main impact I suspect won't be the lack of global vaccine development and availability ( the US is important - but not the whole world ), but rather in the diminishing of the US science and industry base.
    - conception 1y ago
      The gates foundation notoriously doesn’t pay any sort of reasonable overhead so taking their money often costs as much as they give. They are still giving, which is fantastic, but there are some footnotes with that giving.

There are two ways to make a population healthy. You can either eliminate sick people through treatment, or eliminate sick people through death. I think this administration is picking the latter.

HarryHirsch 1y ago

You can also provide clean air and mandate such and such a turnover of fresh air, and you can have paid sick days, so that employees don't drag themselves in with respiratory illness and infect the rest of the staff. But it's America, can't have such.

maximilianburke 1y ago
(I kinda was hoping that would fall under the former, heh)
- pabs3 1y ago
  That is less about treatement and more about prevention, which the UK NHS is planning on shifting focus to. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/nhs-health-policy-labour-ten-year-plan-change https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/nhs-health-p...

lvspiff 1y ago

They are picking the “un-rich” latter. The rich can still have all the vaccines they want they just gotta pay for it. Same goes for healthcare. If you don’t have a job and arent independently wealthy well screw you dont care about you anyways. So its not just a purge of the sick people its a purge of the poor as well. I dont think they have an endgame other than at the end they’ve accumulated all the wealth and power possible…nothing about making population healthy

conception 1y ago
The rich aren’t funding their own vaccine research.
- DrScientist 1y ago
  Indeed - even if not strictly true - ( https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-health/vaccine-development-and-surveillance https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-hea... ). Though the main impact I suspect won't be the lack of global vaccine development and availability ( the US is important - but not the whole world ), but rather in the diminishing of the US science and industry base.
  - conception 1y ago
    The gates foundation notoriously doesn’t pay any sort of reasonable overhead so taking their money often costs as much as they give. They are still giving, which is fantastic, but there are some footnotes with that giving.