Sounds great. Maybe someone will even do something about it.

Because whew things are not great for us, and the only time we ever even get mentioned by politicians is when they make empty announcements like this.

It's the externalities, stupid.

The cost of not doing, of not caring. No one gets a bill for that cost, but we all pay for it, some far more than most.

Medicine, which should have led when the public were blind/ignorant to the problem, utterly failed. It should come out of #longcovid, #myalgicencephalomyelitis etc with no pride whatsoever.

And it should be reminded of this at every turn.

And ironically nothing has fuelled the antivaccine conspiracy fantasies more than the total mishandling of COVID as a public relations problem instead of a public health one.

It itself is probably the single biggest amplifier of this nonsense. A giant boon to the grifter industry.

More than enough years have passed to prove it. No one has actually done that research, because it would completely expose the lie.

Everyone saying so knows it. They're blatantly lying about it and destroying the credibility of all experts in the process, fuelling conspiracy fantasies.

Many large regions of the world had zero 'lockdowns' or anything like it.

The gradation of measures is easily knowable, it would be easy to prove that regions without 'lockdowns' would be spared this and those that had the highest restrictions would see the most of it.

Do the experts saying this bullshit *want* people to just straight up not listen to anything experts say about anything?

What is the point of destroying the credibility of expertise? For what?! Who benefits from this bullshit?

And they'll cry about how experts are not being listened to, and blame Tiktok, or whatever. Good fucking grief. 🙄

There are people whose job it is to do something about problems like this, and it's also the case here.

They are not doing their job! This is why not a single bit of progress has been achieved.

No one is responsible for it, and no one is responsible for that either. This is failure by design.

I gotta say that the quote feels pretty ironic because it pretty much describes my experience with human physicians. A common experience.

They don't have the time. They're too busy. Availability is very much part of performance, and the current system is not fit for purpose as it is.

The supply of health care is so much lower than its demand. There is demand for 10x the supply, probably even more. There is no human solution to this, it's too expensive.

As soon as AI is as good as an average physician, it will instantly be 100x better simply because it will be always available.

The usual cycle of health care can involve something like 99% waiting. Waiting for appointments, for schedules, for availability. Wait wait wait.

Months and years can pass with sometimes barely 1 hour of actual clinical face time, and a few hours of extra work. It's an extremely inefficient system.

The cost of solving this is in the billions. The losses are in the several trillions and ongoing.

This is complete mismanagement. It's a lose-lose-lose proposition in which misery is amplified, at enormous cost, so that even more gets lost over time.

The idea that only diseases that can be directly observed with current technology can exist is absurd, as it suppresses the production of the very methods & technologies that will make them visible.

Because visible isn't the right term. Neglected is. This is mass negligence and dereliction of duty.

And that's even before we get to the fact that almost all medical institutions, including the BMA, are very hostile to doing anything about chronic illness.

They have been instrumental in the total lack of progress. At best this is cheap virtue signaling.