Vaccines are good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
Gender affirming care is good. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
"But big pharma!" misses the forest for the trees. The problem with big pharma isn't the medicines. Medicines and vaccines are good! It's the price they charge for them.
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With fewer available research products, in the not too distant we will have fewer effective medicines & vaccines thanks to NIH defunding. tl;dr: people will die.
is completely missing that the pharma cartels are evil not because they make LIFE SAVING MEDICINE
but you know, all that shit costs pennies and cents to the dollar and they mark it all up 400-3000%
jenny mccarthy, you're going to Xibalba
Both research and medications save people's lives everyday and help the disability community to live.
The problem is with how big pharma gouges us and keeps us from our life saving medications when no other country allows that to happen.
Yeah they're making bank on a marginalized and poorer than average 1% of the population with dirt cheap generics for HRT and surgeons with high demand skillets.
Big Brain Money moves there.
Sadly death becomes the viable business choice when you can't afford the debt.
(People helping the research is good. It's the price setting after that is evil)
Sadly, that requires an individual to hold two or more conflicting rational notions in their head. Not guaranteed.
So making vaccines political stands to hurt all of us.
Receipts:
The problem is FOR PROFIT companies in these industries put profit above all else and that drives shitty outcomes for people.
We need a new paradigm.
This guy wrote a medical encyclopedia which saw use as a textbook for most of 1,000 years after it was published, in Europe as well as the Muslim world.
It was based on his decades of experience treating anyone who showed up, for free.
That vaccines and GAC are effective, safe, and have positive correlations between their availability and people's health and happiness (effects which are in my opinion good) are facts
Is an eternal truth
What's the demand for being alive, happy, and healthy? Nearly infinite. How many people would want to be as healthy as a 20-year-old for 1000 years, if that were possible? Most of us.
The supply can never meet that.
Therefore, capitalism fails with regards to healthcare.
Oh, you say being trans is a mental illness? Fine. Let's go with that. Then what's the most effective treatment for it?
Gender affirming care.
Many institutions and organizations haven't come by their bad rep suddenly or by accident. The cultural legacy often has a long trail and too many actors simply go pishposh, that was before my time. A possible reaction that IMHO still contributes to nebulous resentment. 🤷♂️
In real life, all approved vaccines are MUCH safer and more effective than that.
(I saw a comment a while back, on how ballet classes change children's bodies in a permanent way, including how they naturally stand, but nobody's complaining about that!)
A real cognitive load for some people apparently.
You would have to take it before symptoms. Side effects could be more risk of influensas over the year for about 20 percent of us.
Who would not choose that vaccine? Vaccines are a simple cost/benefit choice.
"Let's cap prices or negotiate for prices"
"That's communism"
It sucks and I hate it.
(sarcasm & non-sarcastic solidarity)
Applying that logic to vaccines or HRT is harmful.
Do you know how much f@&$ing money they could charge for the CURE for cancer.
I say this as someone who works in clinical research…they would 100% release the “cure” if they had it…you just wouldn’t be able to afford it.
It's just a bad slogan.
"Vaccines/gender affirming care are a Big Pharma scam" is big "don't become addicted to water" energy. The problem is we're charging for a necessity and human right, not that the necessity is a scam.
If industry paid the same rates for water as residential rates - typically 1/1000 industry vs homes
We would have all of the infrastructure we would need to have ample clean water across the country
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/well/hims-hers-health-super-bowl-ad.html
It's almost as if the real problem is Big Insurance.