This is the worst of the shit show imo. They are just dying to murder more people just like they murdered millions with Covid. Of course, if any of the super rich need great healthcare, they’ll make sure they get it. But if you stop research, it won’t be there for them either.

I forget who it was, but he said that no restrictions should be put on cigarette smoking. It brought in billions in taxes, and killed off millions of Germans early, so the state saved a fortune in caring for them when they developed smoking-related illnesses later in life. Some took it as a jest, but most did not. All of my wife’s uncles smoked (her dad quit early) and died of lung cancer in their sixties or seventies. Her family is very susceptible to cancer, and all the women, including both her and her mom, neither of whom smoke, have had to battle it twice. She survived it both times. Her brother did not.

Small-cell carcinoma is an aggressive form of lung cancer. A certain genetic predisposition to the disease runs in some families. If a person is predisposed to the disease, smoking will drastically increase the chance of the disease developing.

She and her mom never had lung cancer, though. Her mom, now 98, had melanoma and intestinal cancer. My wife had breast cancer and a rare form of uterine/ovarian cancer known in German medical circles as ”der Mörder,” or “the murderer,” as it is so silent, it is never detected until it’s too late. My wife survived it due to an accidental detection in its earliest stage, and was that “one in ten thousand” that beat it.

What is the point of funding the sick and the old?
They don't make the wealthy richer so why bother with them?

They already have more money than they or their heirs can spend in a lifetime.
Still not enough for them.

I can't IMAGINE the problems caused by this idiocy!

Someones should/must make a list of the damage likely caused by what I may continue to refer to as 'this idiocy.'

Preventing future clinical trials.

…the few discussions I’ve had recently in regards to the communications pause two were shocked to learn that this included a pause on funding as well.

Clinicals; some years into study; will have data completely corrupted as a result.

All the data worthless now.