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I'm guessing 3M — the billion dollar corporation who poisoned these people with it's product — will be forced to pay the medical costs for their crimes?
Lol. Jokes. I know we live in capitalist dictatorships.
Privatize the gains, socialize the losses.
3M needs a huge fucking spanking like what China does to their negligent companies they want to really make a public example out of
which were manufactured by the US multinational 3M.
Why the past tense? They're still making it last I heard.
Privitize the profit, publicize all 'externalities' as if they are direct result of the profit seeking behaviors.
it will boil down to the question: could effective fire fighting foam have been made without these chemicals? if yes it's on 3M; if not, that's the price for fighting those kinds of fires.
They probably won a contract to make more.
Bloodletting? What is this, old timey medicine? "Looks like ya got ghosts in your blood, better do cocaine about it"
When you've got bad shit in your blood, the most effective remedy is to just remove some blood and let the body make some new, clean blood.
Its just the responsible thing to do
They probably need to find a better word for what they're doing because this is not the same as "I'm going to use this fleam and drain about a bucket's full of blood out of you so I can balance your bodily humours because I tasted your urine and you're far too phlegmatic."
The therapy costs about £100,000 upfront and then as much as £200,000 a year.
Is that per patient? Sounds awfully expensive for extracting a bit of blood.
Is this dialysis? Or a high percentage transfusion?
The only way this makes sense medically to me is if they are filtering the pfas out of the blood or doing blood replacement.
It's also waste disposal of the blood, probably needs something special as normal Pfas destruction probably is not setup to include biohazard materials..
Still that pricetag would be insane if per person.
For a medical procedure in America? Nope that's well within the ballpark.
Wrong Jersey ya dope
Really should call it Old Jersey to prevent confusion /s
How could they possibly have afforded to do it hundreds of years ago???
Just kidding, I know a lot of things are unnecessarily expensive just to make rich people and grifters more money.
Make leeches great again
GET THE FUCKING LEECHES JIM!
Fun fact: there are modern medical applications for leeches as well.
And, if you want to be super grossed out, you can read about how maggots are used.
https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/your-visit/patient-leaflets/tissue-viability/maggot-therapy
Bloodletting eh?
They gon' get barbers to administer it too?
Is there any way to hide these images on Lemmy?
They're pretty annoying.
That is a hot take.
Insurance companies have us so backwards we're resorting to the old ways.
Modern medicine has simply become too expensive, embrace humorous medicine reject miasmas.
How do I invest in witchcraft?