For those of you wondering, the answer wound up being "yes it is". This is why click bait headlines are bad.
this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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In this instance, I think maybe the fact that they're asking, at all, is more telling/alarming/relevant than whatever the answer purportedly is.
Companies aren't motivated to find actual cures diseases that are highly profitable like type 1 diabetes. If they do, I expect it will be like the $3.5 million treatment for hemophilia.
Capitalism’s success already accounts for the poor to die as a feature not a bug
Without the poor the rich couldn't exploit anyone but themselves
This is not a shitpost. This is just reality.
Seems the same with COVID and flu, just get your annual shots even though you can get reinfected by variants
Virus are infamously hard to cure because of their wild mutation variants
Mask off