public health and epidemiology, preventative medicine, cancer research, etc etc… because here’s the thing: you can’t both cut these budgets in half (as they intend to do) AND fund new projects that he is in interested in... those numbers simply don't add up... - ThreadSky

philipverhoef.bsky.social • 9 days ago

public health and epidemiology, preventative medicine, cancer research, etc etc… because here’s the thing: you can’t both cut these budgets in half (as they intend to do) AND fund new projects that he is in interested in... those numbers simply don't add up...

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philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

In addition, the administration intends to cut Medicaid, eliminate the ACA, and fully privatize Medicare… all of these actions will demonstrably and irreparably hurt people.

philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

So what will happen? The most vulnerable (aka the undesirables) will die. These are the people who cannot achieve the “American Dream” through no fault of their own… but RFK and Trump want to use a mix of political and economic Darwinism to “decrease the surplus population”, to quote Dickens...

philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

We will see the rise of vaccine preventable illnesses, which preferentially kill the most undesirable. We will see the rise of mental health crises and suicides as we take away evidence-based therapies (like SSRIs and antipsychotics)… but people with mental illness are undesirable too, right?

philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

People will die for lack of access to medical care and health insurance… but of course, it’s their own fault for not getting a job that provides them good health insurance (never mind the fact that health insurance doesn’t protect against financial risk, or cover what’s needed to be healthy).

philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

We will see the rise of pandemics since, even as you read this, the administration is gutting the US public health service… but of course, as the last pandemic taught us, a pandemic serves to eliminate the undesirables (like the old, the disabled, the chronically ill)...

philipverhoef.bsky.social•9 days ago

...thereby enriching our population with “real” strong Americans. We will see the rise of poverty and food instability… but let them starve, and decrease the surplus population, right? We will waste government resources funding projects whose science is already settled… and not use those resources..

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