The situation at the Defense Department is similar to what is happening to our health care system. Research has stopped. You cannot restart a research protocol in medicine. Many people receiving Chemo for cancer treatment lose there treatment because they are part of continuous ongoing research. Not only does this endanger the lives of p…
The situation at the Defense Department is similar to what is happening to our health care system. Research has stopped. You cannot restart a research protocol in medicine. Many people receiving Chemo for cancer treatment lose there treatment because they are part of continuous ongoing research. Not only does this endanger the lives of people benefiting from treatment, Many of the physicians and researchers will look outside the US. Major brain drain. In the future we will all suffer from the lack of knowledge this generates.
Not to mention antivaxers, and RFK jr, Measles Bird Flu. BTW Bird Flu scares the shit out of me. It has had over an 80% death rate in humans who get it from bird. This has been going on for over 20 years. As a former Nurse Practitioner I read many articles about how we were overdue for a Pandemic. Since the year 2000 I read several articles a year about this topic. Stock up on Tamiflu. I always have a supply. If a virulent strain of Avian flu starts spreading human to human it won't have as high a death rate, but Covid will pale in comparison.
I could go on with many stories i have heard (I listen to Infectious Disease, and Medical updates for sanity. You know science, data, well designed studies, reliable statistics.)but will stop here, I do understand your dismay over the idiotic methods used to make cuts without thought.
Eliot I share your upset. I was in Australia and was so relieved to see you and Eric did that day. It helped to hear your outrage and upset, but also brought me to tears. My father was in WWII commanding troupes on convoy ships being shot at the whole time then worked 30 years in Social Security. I am 65 and probably one of the youngest to have parents who lived through the depression and WWII. That had such an impact on them and on our upbringing that is absent in younger generations. We have to educate them about the sacrifices struggle to get that 80 years of relative peace, and prosperity at least for some that would have been beyond most 1940's Americans. This was not an accident. There were sacrifices by many and large amounts money invested internationally. That is is what makes us a super power. I know you know this but am amazed how many are ignorant of American history.
The situation at the Defense Department is similar to what is happening to our health care system. Research has stopped. You cannot restart a research protocol in medicine. Many people receiving Chemo for cancer treatment lose there treatment because they are part of continuous ongoing research. Not only does this endanger the lives of people benefiting from treatment, Many of the physicians and researchers will look outside the US. Major brain drain. In the future we will all suffer from the lack of knowledge this generates.
Not to mention antivaxers, and RFK jr, Measles Bird Flu. BTW Bird Flu scares the shit out of me. It has had over an 80% death rate in humans who get it from bird. This has been going on for over 20 years. As a former Nurse Practitioner I read many articles about how we were overdue for a Pandemic. Since the year 2000 I read several articles a year about this topic. Stock up on Tamiflu. I always have a supply. If a virulent strain of Avian flu starts spreading human to human it won't have as high a death rate, but Covid will pale in comparison.
I could go on with many stories i have heard (I listen to Infectious Disease, and Medical updates for sanity. You know science, data, well designed studies, reliable statistics.)but will stop here, I do understand your dismay over the idiotic methods used to make cuts without thought.
Eliot I share your upset. I was in Australia and was so relieved to see you and Eric did that day. It helped to hear your outrage and upset, but also brought me to tears. My father was in WWII commanding troupes on convoy ships being shot at the whole time then worked 30 years in Social Security. I am 65 and probably one of the youngest to have parents who lived through the depression and WWII. That had such an impact on them and on our upbringing that is absent in younger generations. We have to educate them about the sacrifices struggle to get that 80 years of relative peace, and prosperity at least for some that would have been beyond most 1940's Americans. This was not an accident. There were sacrifices by many and large amounts money invested internationally. That is is what makes us a super power. I know you know this but am amazed how many are ignorant of American history.