A Measure of Restraint

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Science in the modern world has been kept in check by numerous organizations who exist for the sole reason of ensuring the progression of science does not come at the cost of human life. This topic is extremely relevant today due to the increasing number of cases of the Coronavirus. One would hope that as the number of cases exponentially increases, so does the rate at which the vaccine for this disease is to be created - alas that is not the case.

Technically speaking, me and you both have the cure for the Coronavirus; there are numerous house hold goods that could rid us of this disease. To name a few: drinking bleach, putting your finger into an electrical socket, or even, if you're daring enough, messing with the furnace in your basement. However, it doesn't take much thought to see that these all have a rather important flaw to them: we end up dying too. That is why we have organizations like the CDC to make sure things like that don't get passed on as a "vaccine".

This begs the question though, how can a government organization truly ensure that the people are safe. In short, they can't. One would hope that the CDC would be completely impartial to economic and political nudges, but that just does not seem to be the case. The work of the CDC is in fact corrupted by the government that governs over it and the big business that make up the majority of their revenue. It's commonplace to see the CDC fudging numbers in reports and its also quite common to see the chairpersons of the CDC to be accepting hefty donations from certain corporations. What the CDC has done in fact is turn public health into a business, and that is quite frankly more atrocious than unregulated science.

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