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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.
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.
They have a point though. Yes the embargo makes it more impressive, but also science is the best font of internationalism in the modern world. When the US and USSR were on the verge of killing everyone, our scientists were collaborating. Together we defeated polio, and along with everyone else we killed smallpox.
Science extends beyond borders even when governments try to force it not to. Framing it within national conflicts can take from the beauty and power of its refusal to submit to borders, nationalities, and anything else like that.
The nation of Cuba must be commended for their support of medical science even in the most adverse conditions. But the Cubans and Argentinians who did this did it as part of the internationalist scientific community, and that community is something we as a species should be supporting and cherishing.
The US and their horrible system have worked against science on many occasions.
The US is Sabotaging healthcare science long-term with it's bullshit. We would be better off if it turned into a new Atlantida.
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.
Don't forget how in the US, the amount of doctors is restricted by law by Congress, determined by Congress. That's mainly to keep doctor's wages high and create artificial scarcity, but who's to say the wages can't be paid for by the state instead?
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
Idk, the rest of the world generally gets them at a reasonable pricing
And that redeems the US how? If you do something evil, a harmful act with purely selfish motives, it doesn't matter how many people learn from you and use that knowledge to do good, what you did remains evil.
Who talked about redeeming the US? I'm just happy I get my healthcare at reasonable rates.
Jonas Salk showed it's possible
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".
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.