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considering the recent Covid vaccination restrictions, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the pre-text to start eliminating vaccination they don’t like. I bet HPV vaccines on the chopping block, considering a lot of conservatives think they enable people to have sex.
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Childhood vaccination has reduced HPV related cancers dramatically in the American population. Childhood vaccination helped reduce childhood disease mortality by thousands or tens of thousands of children a year. And now a man who lived through the eradication of smallpox says vaccines are harmful.
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They may not fly, but by god they can glide. Like god’s most unaerodynamic meatball
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Here’s hoping the route of contamination is quickly identified so we can figure out how to prevent it from happening again
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Someone had to pickpocket his phone away, he did not write that
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We’ve allowed them to do this so long because they pay off politicians, who therefore have absolutely no motive to then screw over their bribers. They also do conduct some research on their own, but not enough to justify the high price they gouge from the population for their own pockets
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Pharmaceutical companies as a whole don’t care about regular people, they care about people who can and will pay. They don’t care about public health, they care about the health of the paying individual, so they will never want to lower prices in the US unless something monumental happens.
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The main issue isn’t that obesity isn’t harmful, it’s that a medicine that helps people lose weight is extremely expensive and often not covered by insurance.
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The companies know there are people who pay full cost so they won’t lower the price, but there will be cheaper generics from them and other companies. It’s a terrible system and we all know this, but we can’t turn around and say some condition isn’t actually harmful because it’s not covered by them.
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The issues with med accessibility isn’t because of public health, its a function of our healthcare system and nation as a whole. Everyone fucking hates it unless they’re profiting from it, and it sucks. Companies don’t want to cover the generic because they’ll get less money back.
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I’m in public health, and we don’t thing obesity is the cause of everything bad and we’re unhappy that these drugs are so unattainable. While I agree with the some of points you’re making about obesity, it’s also known to cause health issues. If meds can help you with quality of life, you need it.
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I don’t think this would have much bearing on what he thinks or feels about people with autism. There’s no proven genetic link, so this would essentially be useless for it. It would be great to help prevent deadly disorders like cri du chat syndrome though.
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God help us if it gets to Curmudgeonly
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“Is it ethical to buy used books” bro the second someone tries to take away my right to buy a secondhand book or go to a library is the day I finally lose it
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www.cdc.gov/nwss/wastewa... if you’re interested here’s a link, you might be able to see a trend where you live if you’re in the US.
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Some areas do wastewater surveillance to get an idea of disease types and trends in communities. The state I’m in has a dashboard in which you can track disease trends of 4 respiratory diseases in the testing areas.
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As a whiny little bitch myself, we whiny bitches don’t claim him
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Quick reminder that women were only allowed to open and manage their own credit cards in the later half of the 1970s. We can’t take our rights for granted, because some think they are only privileges.
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My university sent out a brief email two weeks ago about visas being revoked, and nothing since then. People are being kicked out of their programs, education, and the country less than a month before graduation.
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Fairytale vibes, I love it so much
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Party loyalty isn’t loyalty to your constituents and America as a whole
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….did he just say that MITCH MCCONNELL isn’t a Republican??? The man’s been in office for longer than some of the younger congress members have been alive
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They’re just tap dancing on those snakes’ skulls
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Everyone I have seen that uses AI in schoolwork uses it to cheat. They learn nothing because AI comes up with everything for them.
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Sometimes you gotta out the fear of you into the poor innocent utopian city. Rumble Tumble is a cruel god.
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It’s up to 9 deaths in Kentucky, last I heard. Most are in extremely rural areas in which heavy flooding, mudslides, debris, and rockslides complicate rescue and remedy. Some areas are completely underwater, and more snow is forecasted this upcoming week. It’s real bad out there.
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I was prescribed a controlled substance, took it as my doctor directed, found that I was labeled a drug user in the doctor’s notes. That impacted how I felt about my doctors how could you tell? In the future if I need strong painkillers, will they look at that note and decide I can’t be trusted?
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Poor Puerto Rico, a territory with no governor or senator with power to advocate for the Island’s needs. There are homes still with FEMA tarps for a roof, almost ten years out.
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It’s always been a thing, but usually not in large outbreaks like this. A lot of this is fueled by two things: antibiotic resistance tuberculosis bacteria, and our lack of available, immediate, and affordable healthcare. You won’t get that nasty cough checked out if you just can’t afford it.
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They refused because the movie wasn’t over yet.
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The part that got me when I read it was when someone told her daughter and husband to close the windows and bathe immediately after they got home after the explosion and fire. When she got home, they were watching a movie, not having closed the windows or washed. She begged them to go shower l
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One of the things I love the most about Chernobyl is that there is no immediate visible danger presented: no shining goo to avoid or glowing rocks, but simply existing within the radius is enough to shave years off of your expected life span. There is a monster in your shadow and there is no escape.
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I’m a grad student, and something that helped was class discussions about the material. Don’t make it about right/wrong but something they found interesting or odd or something they thought would have been different. Maybe try relating the material to the changing structure of the country itself.
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Someone is suing to put a Confederate soldier’s name on a memorial to the Rangers. This is controversial because that particular soldier was not just a traitor, but he killed American Union soldiers. Why would you put a murderous traitor on this memorial to American soldiers?
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It’s the little things that keep people going
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This effect is seen in other contact sports like American Football, as well as motorsports. The presence of safety gear means athletes are more comfortable taking risks because they feel they won’t get hurt, but this can lead to more severe injuries than before the safety equipment.