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What I've learned that, as an adult in 2024 in the United States, you cannot take for granted:

- That your medical professionals are acting in your best interest

- That your insurance company is acting in your best interest

- That your medical professional knows what they are talking about

- That things that are legal to put in your body will not cause irreparable harm to you

- That the legal level of pollutants in the water, air, ground, walls, floors, etc are actually safe or even being measured properly

- That you aren't being subjected to something that later will be found to be unhealthy, even if it is currently known, until it is litigated in retrospect

- That you can afford the treatment that would be necessary to make yourself healthy

- That anyone in the industries that would normally protect you (healthcare, insurance, public health, government, etc) even care to do so

I understand that some people would look at that list and say I should have never expected some of those, but pardon me for being propagandized at a very young age that we lived in a country that was good and just. That's my bad.

So I am not surprised to see this, and expect to see more of it.

parent jklinger410 2 years ago

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