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Rubbish, total nonsense and you need to read the peer review literature.
You don't understand the most basic points. For example there is, actually, no origin story for SARS-CoV-2. It evolved. The PROXIMATE origin, where it emerged as a fairly succesful human pathogen, is Huanan Wet Market. Period

COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

Short and to the point. An independent team of virologists and experts, most of the SAGO group assembled after the WHO disbanded the original inquiry, finds no reason to favor any hypothesis above zoonosis for the pandemic. Buries the DEFUSE distraction in a few paras.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I know Tarrant County, I've lived there, and this is exactly as insane as everyone says it is, to the point that I'm actually concerned that the lesson learned will be "things are so shitty right now that we don't have to offer or do anything to win"

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled $1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

Good news! This study was eerily reminiscent of the Tuskegee Study. This study is unethical because it intentionally deprives participants of an intervention that protects them from life-long disease, liver cancer and even death.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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This is a dumb take and hugely inaccurate to both the NHS and Medicare. My dude you can afford to go to the UK and actually talk to people who have actual knowledge about this subject and not just capitalist grifters trying to privatize it.

A lot of employer plans leave a lot to be desired. Huge numbers, maybe less than half I admit, of Americans will be underinsured soon.

Other replies are good and frankly I think you are just factually wrong. However my own view is that 'choice' regarding complicated medicine is vastly over rated. You don't need it, what you need is very high standards for medical education and certification. Something that 'markets' fail at.

Good reply, I will say that regarding free at the point of use medicine, like the NHS is meant to be, actually has very few 'negatives' that I can find or have ever been able to. I accept your point in principle of course. there must be some trade offs even if I can't think of them!

Insightful breakdown here by @donmoyn.bsky.social

This habitual normalization of the right wing is institutional at NYT and has the full support of NYT leadership. AGSulzberger, Joe Kahn, et al need to named and criticized.

They also eliminated the public editor…

Maybe we could ask the dozen or more advanced economies who have done it. Especially the one I know about the UK circa 1950. Albeit every attempt has been made to undermine the NHS in various sly ways that the population might not notice. Including this kind of 'how hard it is' head scratching.

Tennessee, vote for this lady. Imagine a world with even a single consequence for fascism.

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Yes stay schtumm. However try to avoid caving to government demands that erode academic freedom. Kind of ‘moderate’ position?😎

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Just in case one or two votes push her into a win. Worth a college try?

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So weird that the Other Place has been embroiled in a days-long argument about grading a paper and this, the academic website, seems to know nothing about it.

Of course not. What they do can matter though. What if John Wayne and Ron Reagan had stood up for the Hollywood Ten for example? In HUAC days. History does have lessons? Maybe not..

ok!

Fire the mean girls at the FDA, win the midterms The FDA has devolved into a high school soap opera under Commissioner Marty Makary.

Knives out

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Donald Trump is crumbling before us.

Pete Hegseth is under fire for war crimes, with congressional inquiries looming.

Kash Patel is getting publicly humiliated by his own FBI agents.

RFK Jr.'s freak flag is getting national attention thanks to the Lizza-Nuzzi insanity.

The wheels are coming off.

Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school

3. This would create just a unending flow of zero-value paperwork, amidst a culture of fear. Just all the best aspects of the USSR in one neat package.

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