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There are two ways to make a population healthy. You can either eliminate sick people through treatment, or eliminate sick people through death. I think this administration is picking the latter.

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They are picking the “un-rich” latter. The rich can still have all the vaccines they want they just gotta pay for it. Same goes for healthcare. If you don’t have a job and arent independently wealthy well screw you dont care about you anyways. So its not just a purge of the sick people its a purge of the poor as well.

I dont think they have an endgame other than at the end they’ve accumulated all the wealth and power possible…nothing about making population healthy

The rich aren’t funding their own vaccine research.

Indeed - even if not strictly true - ( https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-hea... ).

Though the main impact I suspect won't be the lack of global vaccine development and availability ( the US is important - but not the whole world ), but rather in the diminishing of the US science and industry base.

The gates foundation notoriously doesn’t pay any sort of reasonable overhead so taking their money often costs as much as they give. They are still giving, which is fantastic, but there are some footnotes with that giving.

You can also provide clean air and mandate such and such a turnover of fresh air, and you can have paid sick days, so that employees don't drag themselves in with respiratory illness and infect the rest of the staff. But it's America, can't have such.

(I kinda was hoping that would fall under the former, heh)

That is less about treatement and more about prevention, which the UK NHS is planning on shifting focus to.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/29/nhs-health-p...

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