POLITICAL BLOTTER

[The Rover]

Hospitals are the problem. Doctors are the problem. Prone to lobbyists just like greedy politicians.

Big Pharma has their thumb on scale of all aspects, to make sure the main and primary focus is drugs to treat illnesses.

Over prevention of illnesses and disease in the first place.

[The Rover]

Just asking, not being an intentional ass: is there any proof to that, or just some social media conjecture?

The statement that ".......... had (must have had) information that could lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton" is a trope.

It can be used when any notable (political) person dies...

[lovemachine97(Version 2)]

Big Pharma has their thumb on scale of all aspects, to make sure the main and primary focus is drugs to treat illnesses.

Over prevention of illnesses and disease in the first place.

It's simply harder to develop a cure for a disease than it is to find a way to treat it or manage it. Anyone who finds a disease cure cashes in big time. Pharmaceutical companies also have very inexpensive ways to prevent you from getting diseases in the first place that they could, otherwise, just bleed you dry to treat and manage it. Instead, we stop people from getting Hepatitis, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Pnemonia and Menengitis, Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, chicken pox, HPV, Dengue fever, Monkey pox, the list goes on, in the first place.

And, despite all the money they make treating HIV to the point where it can't be found in the body (imagine all the money they have made on people like Magic Johnson and their cocktails and treatments over the last 30+ years), they are currently developing and in trials on an HIV vaccine so no one every gets it.

Sure, most people get these vaccinations, so they make bank on them, too. But the idea that they prevent these from ever happening but also only want to treat and manage diseases is hard to reconcile.

[Little Intruder]

When was the last time a major disease was fully cured... smallpox?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

[CaboChris]

We used to cure shit all the time. Cures dont make money for shareholders. We won't have a major disease cure in our lifetimes, for sure, if ever.

[CaboChris]

I'm shocked! AI. So much good and potential it has thus far produced. Such an exciting time.

"UnitedHealthcare accused of relying on AI algorithms to deny Medicare Advantage Claims

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...vantage-claims

[The Rover]

We used to cure shit all the time. Cures dont make money for shareholders. We won't have a major disease cure in our lifetimes, for sure, if ever.

If cancer was ever cured, without a new disease to replace it, thousands in the medical world would be out of a job.

[fudd]

We used to cure shit all the time. Cures dont make money for shareholders. We won't have a major disease cure in our lifetimes, for sure, if ever.

That’s not entirely true. Take hep c. It’s curable now. But it’s insanely expensive. And the new hiv shit, same. Cancer medicines aren’t too far behind it.


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[fudd]

If cancer was ever cured, without a new disease to replace it, thousands in the medical world would be out of a job.

Covid.


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[lovemachine97(Version 2)]

We used to cure shit all the time. Cures dont make money for shareholders. We won't have a major disease cure in our lifetimes, for sure, if ever.

It's just more complicated than that. It just is.

Just at the most basic level, it ignores that there still is some competition. Let's say I'm Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer has a treatment that people can take for some disease that doesn't cure it but you can live normally and not die. There's side effects, but people will deal with them.

Pfizer gets exclusivity and then the drug goes generic. But if J&J can invent a cure, they could conceivably eat Pfizer's lunch. Who wants a treatment with side effects if there's a cure?

But now we have the added layer of insurance. And most people don't buy it; they get it through their employer. If Pfizer's cure has a lifetime total cost of, say, $100,000, a cure is, in theory, worth at least that, if not more. But you're unlikely to stay with the same insurer over your life if for no other reason than job changes. In that scenario, it's much more palatable for your insurer to pay for the treatment for the time you're with them than what could be the total lifetime treatment cost, up front, for the cure.

Yet, cures still happen. Solvaldi cures 90-100% of Hep C cases. Approved in 2013 and it initially cost $80,000. Zolgensma is a gene therapy treatment for spinal muscular atrophy in children under two years old. It costs $2.1 million, approved in 2019. But the severe cases are basically assured to kill children. In cases that don't, $2.1 million is actually cheaper than the care these kids had before the cure with dramatically better results.

But stuff like cancer and degenerative diseases are much harder to cure than treat. Cancer cells mutate to avoid everything we come up with to throw at it. Degenerative diseases have to do with human genes. A cure would mean reengineering human biology. Viruses are in our cells. The tech to extract viral DNA from our cells isn't there. Right now, treatments for certain things are just much easier.


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[bklynboy68]

Syria On Verge Of Collapse As Terrorist Rebels Take Over Vast Swaths Of Country

Recent global events have caused a shift in the forces holding the power in Syria, allowing terrorists an opportunity to advance.

By Ryan Saavedra
Dec 7, 2024




Syria is on the verge of collapse as rapidly advancing Islamic terrorist rebels from the north have taken over vast swaths of land from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

In just a little over a week, the terrorist rebels have conquered Aleppo in northern Syria and have quickly moved south, capturing Hama and are now moving through Homs as they move toward the country’s capital city of Damascus.

The situation is so dire that Assad has evacuated his family to Russia and Iran has started to withdraw its military personnel from the country.
“Russia doesn’t have a plan to save Assad and doesn’t see one emerging as long as the Syrian president’s army continues to abandon its positions,” a source told The Telegraph.

Experts on the Russian military said that the country would struggle to evacuate its main airbase in Syria before the terrorist rebels capture it. They believe that all the personnel will be evacuated, but much of the hardware, including some of the military planes used to back the Syrian regime, would be left behind.
Fighting in the Syrian civil war had remained largely quiet since 2020 when a ceasefire was struck, but recent events cracked the forces that had kept the current lines frozen.

The two main events that have changed the situation in the country were Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists launching an unprecedented terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has siphoned away support that it would send to back Assad’s forces in its fight against the rebel terrorists — primarily Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that evolved out of Al-Qaeda’s former branch in Syria.

HTS’s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is a terrorist who has a $10 million bounty on his head from the U.S. government.

“Amid the excitement surrounding the potential downfall of the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad, analysts and the media often overlook that it is happening at the hands of jihadist groups,” said Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal.

“The prospect of a Syrian state dominated by Islamist factions, especially if they gain access to advanced weaponry pilfered from regime arsenals, undoubtedly raises significant concerns in Israel and the surrounding region,” Truzman added.
Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 people in October 2023 sparked war throughout the Middle East between Israel and Iran and all of Iran’s terrorist proxy groups.
Israel has decimated the largest and most powerful of the terrorist groups, Lebanon-based Hezbollah, killing thousands of its fighters, wiping out most of its large arsenal of aerial munitions, and killing off its top leaders and nearly all of its senior commanders. Prior to being severely damaged by Israel’s superior military, Hezbollah was backing Assad in Syria and helped him keep power.
Israel was actively monitoring the situation and is believed to have destroyed a Syrian chemical weapons cache to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of the terrorists.

“The IDF monitors developments and is prepared for all scenarios, offensive and defensive alike,” said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi. “The IDF will not tolerate threats near the Lebanon-Syria border and will thwart any threat against the State of Israel.”


https://www.dailywire.com/news/syria...ths-of-country

[CaboChris]

So these Syrian rebels are jihadists? This will now be a new Islamic terrorist breeding ground? Not that it wasn't before. FAFO, I guess. Don't try anything stupid the next 12 years.

[bklynboy68]

So these Syrian rebels are jihadists? This will now be a new Islamic terrorist breeding ground? Not that it wasn't before. FAFO, I guess. Don't try anything stupid the next 12 years.

Yes. McCain’s probably giddy wherever he is. These were the Islamists he wanted 10,000 American troops to assist. Obama/Biden/Clinton too.

[edwardv]

Nothing good comes out of jihadists lands

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[fudd]

Yes. McCain’s probably giddy wherever he is. These were the Islamists he wanted 10,000 American troops to assist. Obama/Biden/Clinton too.

Ok so what’s it that they want?


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