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bonsai_spool
1y ago
>> That which you did not do for the least of these, you also did not do for me. > It's easy to demand that other people be generous with their resources. This is a reference to the Bible, a sentence that Jesus delivered.
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> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact. You compared a sovereign nation to an apartment, sorry I was unclear. > There was
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1y ago
I am very genuinely interpreting all of this and I recognize you are just reviewing the data. HIV deaths are a lagging indicator, so any effect of today's policy will be delayed - as a general matter. But HIV in newborns will lead to d
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1y ago
I replied to one of your sibling posts. You can re-interpret these facts as you wish, but the WHO was working in December and radically transformed in February. I think that indicates inefficacy and poor insight, but not in the WHO.
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> Good thing it's called the World Health Organization and not the American Health Organization, that way the 95.9% of the world that is not America can contribute to it. First, imagine that your boss/largest customer decided,
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1y ago
> if you mean short term impacts that may be true, but I wonder if the medicaid, aca and likely medicare cuts will have material impacts on mortality. It will not be as easy to attribute, and therefore it’ll be hard to quantify (you migh
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> Or have you forgotten about a worldwide pandemic that happened just a few short years back which revealed that the top priority of many authority figures in public health organizations was to make themselves look good and their opposit
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This is a bad take, even if we step away from your comparison of a body of millions of people to a someone living in Brooklyn with a trust fund. > Perhaps the American taxpayer could be incentivized to continue financially supporting the
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> Sounds like a job for the WHO - maybe the UN can do it's job. Ah, the WHO that has recently lost money from its largest contributor, a contributor that unexpectedly stopped its contributions without explanation.
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>> It receives relatively little attention now, but in terms of sheer numbers the cuts to the USAID program have had and will continue to have the largest death toll of anything this administration does. > The US is not responsible
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Perhaps not something displaying every hallmark of an AI-generated article.
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1y ago
> Can a human reliably carefully study for hours on end imaging from screening tests This is actually very common in radiology where some positions have shifts of 8-12 hours, where one isn't done until all the studies on the list ha