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third-time-charmed t1_j14pir7 wrote

Reply to comment by Sventipluk in Anarchism at the End of the World: A defence of the instinct that won’t go away by Sventipluk

"and medical professionals have nothing to do when the causes of sickness and madness are removed."

Also the bigger idea that public health is public. People's right to not vaccinate does not matter more to me than the preservation of herd immunity from disease, for eg.

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Sventipluk OP t1_j14r1nw wrote

Nothing on germ theory there. Just common sense. Make society healthy and we don’t need professional interventions to keep us operational.

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third-time-charmed t1_j15hs12 wrote

While that might be true for some things, such as situational depressions or disabilities that fit the social model better- the flu isn't societal. Cancer isn't societal (there are prehistoric skeletal remains with bone cancer). Norovirus, strep throat, measles, mumps. None of those are societal. Claiming otherwise is a rejection of the germ theory of disease, implicitly.

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