FDA decides to stop hurting lots of people
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a drug that is able to cure most patients with Hepatitis C. This drug, Incivek, will save thousands of lives per year and help many thousands of other patients who would not have died but would have suffered and been dependent on much less effective and slower-acting treatments. One might be tempted, given certain kinds of government school and media indoctrination, to get a warm fuzzy and proceed to high-five the FDA for taking this action to help so many people.
Of course, there's another way to look at this that requires removing your state-imposed blinders: the FDA has decided to stop harming and killing thousands of people per year. After all, if it's true that this drug helps thousands of people per year, then every year it existed but was prohibited by the FDA from being placed on the market, the FDA was directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and harm to thousands more. There were thousands of sick patients who had the option of that drug denied them through government threat of violence. Had someone had been caught trying to manufacture and sell that drug to a willing buyer prior to FDA approval, they would literally have been arrested (or threatened with arrest) or fined at the very least. That's no way for civilized human beings to behave toward one another. And it's hard to even fathom the number of people harmed and killed--and currently suffering and dying--because of all the other drugs the FDA has delayed or blocked and is still delaying and blocking.
So don't congratulate the violent thugs at the FDA for helping people--condemn them (and their fellow aggressors in the White House and Congress) for hurting and killing so many innocent people. Speak out against these hideous institutions that so many people mindlessly bow before, thank, and make offerings to. These are not just and noble entities--they are institutionalized assaults on humanity and peace and reason, and they'll only be defeated when we are able to get enough people to remove their blinders.
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