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When austerity is cutting into public health measures, there is a pretty clear causative route, however.
by scarmig 14y ago
When austerity is cutting into public health measures, there is a pretty clear causative route, however.
- pc86 14y agoMaybe I'm being pedantic, but that's an implementation issue and not a root problem with austerity. Just because I mess up all the config options for Apache doesn't mean Apache sucks. The argument that austerity itself is bad because it's killing babies and giving everyone AIDS is a bit ridiculous. Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for austerity at all. I'm just saying everyone's jumping on the chance to blame austerity for every conceivable problem because they happen to disagree with it politically.
- igravious 14y agoIt's not giving everyone AIDS. The article doesn't say that, it says that there were cuts to the health service which meant that "periphery" services like needle exchange programs were reduced which has already lead to a noticeable increase in a certain portion of the population (presumably drug users who share needles) contracting HIV. But you obviously don't care about the details. And what's with the killing babies reference?