/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Holy fuck there is so much stupid in this thread it hurts.

There is no fucking drug company conspiracy. Sure, drug companies do some messed up shit sometimes, but they are not some evil plotting NWO Illuminati conpiracy group out to control you.

Without them, we would be much worse off.

Many diseases that used to be fatal are almost entirely wiped out.

Polio, Smallpox, Diphtheria, Measles, and Tuberculosis used to scare the shit out of people. Now they are virtually unheard of in developed countries.

The flu was feared and very often fatal, and was one of the highest causes of death. Now you get some antibiotics and feel fine in a day or two.

Meningitis is scary as shit and kills you after only a day or so. There's also a good chance you haven't heard of it. Why? An almost perfect vaccine virtually eliminated the disease from the western world. If you are young, you probably aren't even vaccinated, since it's almost eliminated.

There is also real progress in curing diseases that have been previously thought incurable.

Cancer is treatable if caught early and is not the guaranteed death sentence it was, and there are promising studies for real cures of several variants.

HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence in the western world, a disease that was for a long time thought impossible to cure, and there are again several research paths getting ever closer to a cure or preventative vaccine.

And, most importantly to this thread, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and many other psychological disorders have treatments that are highly effective, getting safer with fewer side effects with each new generation of research, and are proven over and over again in all numbers of studies that they work.

100 years ago, we didn't have that, and how did people cope? Trepanation? Shock therapy? being locked up in asylums that were more horrible than the worst modern prison? Suicide?

Yeah. Drug companies sure are evil.

>>25594

About point one, I've worried about government cracking down small farms. Maybe it's paranoia, but I get the feeling that if a lot of people start being self-sufficient then the government may take some action to "protect" the economy, the "welfare" of the nation, and whatever bullshit they come up these days.