Cuba’s medical work is amazing.
The US blockade is has been and remains a crime against humanity.
Cuba Libre 🇨🇺
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Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 5 hours ago
piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Tbf, if it wasnt for the embargo, cuba wouldnt invest in the one of the few things they can export.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 40 minutes ago
The bar is low and you guys keep on bringing shovels
aburrito@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Did we need to play devils advocate today?
protist@retrofed.com 2 hours ago
I gotta admit I hate the framing of this as “Cuba vs the US.” Cuba coming up with a treatment is commendable. The US coming up with many treatments is commendable. This is fucking medical science, not politics.
liuther9@lemmy.world 3 minutes ago
It is all politics. Your fucking life is going to be even more political soon meaning miserable cause of some policies. I hate it when people are like “duh I am not into politics”.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 minutes ago
This is fucking medical science, not politics.
Everything is politics. Especially when everything you try to do is hampered by stupid and/or abusive politics, such as the embargo.
You’re right that coming up with the drug is in itself commendable, but you’re wrong in implying that coming up with it while under the embargo doesn’t make it even MORE impressive.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
The US is Sabotaging healthcare science long-term with it’s bullshit. We would be better off if it turned into a new Athlantic.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 42 minutes ago
The US embargo against Cuba is political as well.
The US politicians turning a blind eye on the lives destroyed by for-profit healthcare are political as well.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
The US coming up with anything is not commendable because we literally always overcharge wildly for life saving treatments and let anyone who can’t afford them die
Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 2 hours ago
The narratives and optics molds reality just as material conditions molds the think-being of a person.
In the age of social media warfare this is a tactic that governments from capitalist and AES use to change the collective minds of the masses, gain their favor. China has done it the boring way, Cuba needs to act quickly when cornered by this moribund rabid dog known as the US government.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 hours ago
Why is that tweet AI generated. Gross
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Man, imagine slowly dying of late-stage lung cancer, then getting picked to be in a trial for a drug that could greatly improve your situation, but you get put in the control group. Placebos will still cure cancer if you think they will, right?
awfulawful@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
That’s not really how trials for treatments like this work. The non-experimental groups would get standard of care/a comparator which would be used to determine efficacy. It would be unethical to give sugar pills to patients with advanced NSCLC.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
The AMA has a section in their code of ethics about when and how to use a placebo in situations like this.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Ironically placebos work so well in almost all cases that placebo results actually screw the data a bit. The human fucking mind is crazy yo
Drusas@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Similarly, the nocebo effect also works!
terranoid@lemmy.cafe 5 hours ago
Placebo knee surgery literally works
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
That would be because we now know many cartilage related knee surgeries do not.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
That’s exactly what I was going to say!
“Your cancer is very advanced, and without intervention, you will be dead within the year. We’re running a clinical trial on an experimental immunotherapy vaccine that can dramatically improve your outcomes. You’re in the control group, here’s a placebo.”
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Cool, my brother in law has like stage v lung cancer. He’s a piece of shit magat though, and I never liked him. Always gave me bad vibes.
Drusas@fedia.io 3 hours ago
I assume you mean IV.
tempest@lemmy.ca 20 minutes ago
It’s so late it’s 5 now
luthis@lemmy.nz 2 hours ago
So, when can we get this???
Dearth@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Go to Cuba and get it i guess
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 57 minutes ago
I can see Floridians riding a boat, but deny it for others. It’s like Texas, where the border jumpers vote like saboteurs.
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I just wish cancer have never had a thing. Fuck cancer.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Your body is constantly making cancerous cells. But the immune system is constantly detecting and cleaning them up.
thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
Dearth@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ah, this along with Argentina’s president, are why thiel and fam moved to Argentina. Someone in his family has lung cancer. He can go there, get his own private air field and get treatment for cancer, build a compound however he likes in the mountains. 1 hour timezone difference to new York and dc. 10 hour time difference from the most populated timezone in the world.
A convenient place to run a tech empire remotely and recieve cutting edge cancer treatment