cairsten.bsky.social
She/her. Mother, dreamer, yearner for warm asphalt roads under crisp moonlit skies, dabbler in fractal art and writing, proto-midwife, Tante in training. Caribbean child, twice an immigrant, now at home in Australia.
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Think about how much money and effort means testing costs versus giving money no strings attached, etc.
Cruelty *inherently* costs more than kindness. The cruel solution will always be inefficient.
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Cruel policies are always going to be inefficient, money-burning, self-destructive policies.
The people who propose them, aren't *interested* in whether those policies actually benefit anyone, including themselves.
If they did, at all, they wouldn't be choosing a cruel policy.
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Why does that sound like those "camps" where parents pay people to kidnap their teens and abuse/kill them in the name of "straightening them out"?
... oh, right. Because it'll be exactly like that, including deaths.
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And those folks won't believe in the risk until (sometimes even if) they wind up with dead animals, or they and/or their families are sick.
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It's understandable but unfortunate; the price of eggs plus the anti-science refusal to understand *why* there's a shortage (I keep reading how "they"/Biden "destroyed flocks for 'no reason'") has led to people deciding to keep chickens w/o any care for the disease risk.
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Because "curtailing the use of fossil fuels" upsets the big interests making money off them, and "cleaning up the mess" instead lets them go on making money off fossil fuels, so that's fine.
(The answer to any question that starts "why would they" is generally "money", or so I've found.)
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Our friends to the north also have excellent healthcare resources that are accessible currently!
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