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Letter to the editor: Money is today’s magic medicine

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1 Min Read Feb. 19, 2022 | 4 years Ago
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In the last century, deadly diseases included tuberculosis, flu, smallpox, measles, yellow fever, polio, pneumonia, syphilis. Cures or vaccinations were found (in order listed) in 1921, 1940, 1796, 1963, 1938, 1950, 1977 and 1928. Note that at these times higher education was either rare or not common.

Today college graduates are almost as common as high school graduates were in the 1950s. Our deadly diseases today are cancer, covid and AIDS, and yet with all this education, neither proven vaccines nor cures have been discovered. What does that tell you? Are we actually the victims of Big Pharma not releasing cures or vaccines? Is no one trying to find these things, or are we just more stupid than previous generations?

Penicillin was discovered in 1928, a magic cure-all for many diseases that were previously deadly. Where is the magic of these last 100 years? The only “magic” of today is money. Draw your own conclusions!

Eileen Condie

Hempfield

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