According to the study “More than two in five have a diagnosed mental health condition”.
I couldn’t find anything cited in the references that supports the article’s claims. And it’s just obnoxious to use phrases like “more than two in five”. Just say 40% for crying out loud.
Well, if nobody can access it without immediately taking on a crippling amount of debt then it doesn’t matter how good the quality of that healthcare is. The system is fundamentally broken.
As for the quadrupling of the US’s discount price, Bancel argued that the simple bulk orders for the government were wholly different in nature than the messiness of the commercial market—and that messiness costs extra. During the pandemic, Moderna dealt with one customer (the government) that committed to paying for a set number of doses regardless of whether they made it into arms. And the company delivered those doses to a limited number of federal warehouses. Now, it will have thousands of customers, requiring the company to deal with complex distribution logistics, and to take on the financial risk of manufacturing more doses than are purchased. Moderna will also switch from selling multi-dose vials to single-dose vials, which it sees as more suited for the commercial market. “This is not the same product,” Bancel argued, and the quadrupled price reflects that, he suggested.
In the article linked in that opening paragraph about his testimony, HE MADE THE CASE FOR SINGLE PAYER. Clearly and unequivocally.
Why…would you take this as a comment against YOU?I was piggybacking off what you said to continue pointing to the absurdity? This newly minted billionaire pharma CEO stepped all over his own Bullshit to make the case. He wasn’t purposefully making the case, he was trying to justify the nonsense of what they’re doing and accidentally said “if we had single payer, it’d be cheaper.” While defending their absurd profits. Wasn’t a slight against you, friend.
I cannot imagine feeling safe in a country were lethal weapons are available so freely under a society where these outliers are not only being allowed to become far more predominant, but are actively being fueled by scummy politicians. Yeah, sure, it’s not all states, the problem is it increasingly doesn’t matter as long as they are willing to do anything and everything to take control of the federal government.
It’s not mismanagement if the explicit, if secretive, goal is to simply remove as many users of the service as possible, knowing most of them don’t easily have the means to fight back.
I have a chronic illness and am fighting another illness. I would be fucked without healthcare, but workers deserve to be treated better. I guess if I had KP, I would be willing to suffer on their behalf. I wouldn’t die, I would just be in a lot more pain.
EDIT: Thinking on this, that might have sounded selfish. I meant to say the opposite- that patients need to be behind the workers too.
As a nurse who also suffers from a painful chronic illness, I appreciate you. We’re currently unionizing at my hospital because we’ve tried literally every single other thing we could think of - reporting detailed safety events, protesting assignments - and the hospital simply refuses to hire more staff. None of us want to strike, but the working conditions we’re currently experiencing make it impossible for us to do the right thing for our patients. None of us want to strike, but if we do so, it’s because we were left with no other option. Believe me, all we want is to be able to safely and successfully do our jobs.
I applied to over 100 remote positions before finally throwing in the towel and taking a hybrid position. There’s a finite amount of remote employers and they are unbelievably picky as a result.
Well when you put it that way, guillotine’ing a few billionaires once a year would probably save everyone a ton of money and significantly improve workforce moral.
There are about 3,000 billionaires on Earth. More people died on 9/11 than there are “winners” who manipulate our species, world governments, and our entire civilization to their detriment for short term private profit.
Our common enemy oppressing humanity doesn’t have enough numbers to fill a tenth of a football stadium. Just saying…
Jokes aside, they aren’t the biggest hurdle, their army of deluded true believer, self-hating, “love me senpai” peasants are.
That’s what made the “lie flat” (or “lie down?”) movement in china a few years ago so compelling. To disarm the global elites is the simplest thing in the world: ignore them. Do nothing.
I thought about it and I don’t want that happening to the CEO of where I work. I want him to go into early retirement and I don’t know step on a Lego once in a while. Not even every month just like once a year. That would be justice in my mind.
tbh even the monsters are victims of their class position - being a billionaire warps a person into a horrible creature that is deserving of pity as much as they are deserving of a good French haircut
Any system that classifies things has two types of errors: false positives and false negatives. As you increase one you decrease the other. It’s as simple as that. So if you want to be 100% sure you put every bad person in prison you just put everyone in prison. Anything short of that you’re going to miss some. How many innocent people being tortured or killed by the system does it take to equal the value of killing one guilty person or even keeping one guilty person in prison for the rest of their lives?
Stories like this primarily exist to justify massive amounts of violence by the state to ostensibly prevent things like this… except they never actually do. The criminal legal system is the only system that uses its own failure to perpetually justify additional investment. As long as you have prisons, you will have this. You will have people who go to prison and become more dangerous. You will have people falsely imprisoned and even murdered. You will have police murdering people regularly and getting away with it in the name of “preventing” crimes like this. All you need to do is look at the clearance rates for police and the recitivism rate for prisons to see that they just aren’t worth the investment.
Until we shift to a public health model of public safety, this is guaranteed. Public health approachs like investment in early childhood education, restorative justice systems, and making mental healthcare more accessible have been proven repeatedly to have multiple times higher return on investment than police or prisons.
While revenge feels good and feels intuitive based on the history of the legal system, it doesn’t fit with modern psychology. Classifier based punitive legal systems must always either cause suffering by action or inaction because that’s part of the fundamental definiton of classifiers and punitive systems. Making sure people like this are in prison means making sure innocent people are also in prison. Is it worth it?
I mean swastika is a budist symbol nothing wrong with it, the threats are the bread and butter of any business regarding relation boss-worker, and the nooses I mean…sometimes you need to make one here or there to pull something up nothing wrong with it.
Almost everything we think of as Greek innovations was actually the Greeks absorbing knowledge from the civilizations to their east. Greece is just when our records traditionally went back to.
Not to mention that a lot of greek texts that survived only did so thanks to the Sassanids (Persians), since the newly christian Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) began purging all that stuff because “god is all the knowledge you need”.
Later on, those texts found their way back into Europe through the then Arab conquered Spain
A quick Google search shows that this is entirely incorrect (both that they were only preserved in arabic and that they made it back to Europe through al-andalus) and it’s apparently a popular myth.
From multiple articles (there’s a plethora of sources): Classical Greek texts were preserved in the byzantine empire and most classical Greek texts that are known today, are translations from texts that were preserved in Greek (mostly within the byzantine empire). There are a few texts that only survived for a time as Arabic translations, but according to what I read, those are only few compared to what was preserved in Greek.
IIRC the real situation was that classical texts were traditionally kept away from most public eyes because they were written by pagans, but trusted scholars and religious officials would usually be able to gain access to them if they needed.
Family members and first responders are among those who can now file a petition on behalf of an adult they believe “is unlikely to survive safely” without supervision and whose condition is rapidly deteriorating. They also can file if an adult needs services and support to prevent relapse or deterioration that would likely result in “grave disability or serious harm” to themselves or others.
It doesnt really have anything to do with homeless people, either. It reads to me like it’s designed to get people into conservatorships and not much else.
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