• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    30 days ago

    Just saying, “it’s capitalism’s fault,” is not entirely incorrect, but it is definitely oversimplifying. Chronic diseases are complex, incredibly challenging to solve, and can vary a great degree by individual.

    The government gave the NIH a billion dollars to study long COVID and the result … fuck-all. Literally all they did was loosely define some things that the enormous and growing patient community already knew. No treatments, no diagnostics, nothing.

    To be clear, capitalism certainly plays a substantially antagonistic role in solving chronic illness, but just throwing money at a problem doesn’t solve it either.

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      30 days ago

      Not to mention, evolution. You can’t stop it unless you 100% eradicate the things that could evolve.

      Time, money, and patience are required to understand novel pathogens, and those three things are in short supply in a “get rich quick” society.