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In reply to the discussion: Everybody talks gun control, but nobody talks about increasing funding for mental health services [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)In 1981, the problems of HIV/AIDS ran deeper than simply the amplification effect of the bath houses. But we closed the bath houses, and that helped. A lot. It helped in changing the culture, and helped in changing individual practices, and it slowed the spread of the virus. And don't think there weren't thousands ho viewed the closure as an affront to liberty. they slowed closure by three years in the midst of the epidemic, and cost many thousands of people their lives, just as the gun manufacturers and their sucker flunkies are doing today. We are currently in a public health epidemic as serious as that. of course it is multifactorial. No shit. that doesn't mean we don't act meaningfully. It means we act multiply.
The idea that problems are multifactorial and complex is not particularly original or insightful. Of course they are. Every adult knows that. The dodge, the fucking despicable dodge, is when we use the complexity of problems as a reason for doing NOTHING.