Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Donald Trump Saves the Military While Ignoring Infectious Disease

Fighting against the Blue Army goes well, citizens, but we must keep up the pressure.  We must persevere and soon we will win the much-deserved victory ... or something like that and it will cost another sixty billion.

That's the Donald Trump Plan which, what do you know, looks almost exactly like the old plan.  The new old plan comes from the same whiner who said he saved twelve billion last month ... while he was setting up to blow five times that much.

The beauty part is he says he will cut sixty billion from domestic programs to make it balance.

A big deal at the Rockhouse has been support for programs to help people get off heroin.  We all know the problem and don't need searchlights in the sky to announce it but we do need money all across the country to help people get clean and stay that way.  Lotho knows the most about such programs and I'm sure he knows also the probability of financial support from the state is dropping by the minute.

- RT:  Trump to boost Pentagon budget by $54bn - White House


There's no intention in trying to score points against Lotho since he hasn't been dancing a jig over Trump's appointments any more than anyone else.  I'm not positive but it looks for him like more of the Obama Effect (i.e. he talks really sweet on Prom Night but he's gone the next day).  Trump hasn't Obama'ed me since I took my beating already when Obama did it.

I had hoped there would be more imagination in Trump but, in fact, he seems almost entirely bereft of it.  There are consequences, however.


Likely you have heard about some unknown 'superbug' which was impervious to all antibiotics and whacked some older woman in Nevada some months ago.

Have you heard about increasing the capability to fight off such bugs, do more research to find how they work, discover better drugs for dealing with them, etc?  (RT:  WHO urges quick development of antibiotics to combat superbugs, warns options are running out)

It's even got that 'combat' word the statists love so much but still they find a way to do nothing.



Looks like Good'n'Plenty candy but it's Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) bacteria © Reuters


The World Health Organization (WHO) has urgently called for the creation of new drugs to tackle 12 superbugs which do not respond to antibiotics, warning that drug resistance is on the rise.

The "priority pathogens" list released by the organization on Monday, catalogs 12 families of bacteria which poses the greatest threat to human health.

The list specifically highlights "gram-negative bacteria," which are resistant to multiple antibiotics. Such bacteria have built-in capabilities to find new ways to resist treatment and can pass along genetic material which allows other bacteria to also become drug resistant.

- RT


There's no way for America to be great again ... when it's sick.


Sure that's the throwaway line for the day but doesn't obviate the fact of it.  We observe through multiple research papers that dollars for science in developing various treatment protocols seem to be available but we see from the news announcements for other things that there's no money for ensuring anyone ever sees the benefit of them.

In short, scientists have been working to try to discover the source of the problem with drug-resistant microbes but it all stops after that.


Assuming a drug is discovered, the standard process after that is it gets patented to ensure other medical companies can't legally produce it.  Then the price of the drug gets bumped astronomically each time rights to the drug are sold and quickly the result is people can't afford it anymore.

Ed:  the Shkreli Effect?

Yes.  It's a uniquely American disease.  Woolworth's parasites of Shkreli's nature come along and it seems like whacking him will take care of the problem but doing that doesn't change it at all.  He's not significant; he's just another noise.


Have you seen Donald Trump lift a finger toward Big Pharma?

Right.  Me either.

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