Thread by @madwoman1949

1) An uninformed, pharisaical condemnation of an industry providing, w/regularity, life-saving, less invasive medical options at huge R&D cost:

https://twitter.com/AnnieDynne/status/1448152434845655049

2) The tweeter has a campaign against #Pharma, an imperfect industry, as all human endeavors are. She blames Pharma for poor nations, though it has provided millions of free doses. It escapes her that graft often frustrates the administration of those helps. We are blessed...

3) ...in our nation to enjoy market freedoms in which to exercise and profit from our industry and invention. We elect Gov't to hold business accountable and citizens who can organize and sue both. I won't broadbrush a grim picture of an industry that, though imperfectly,...

4)...though rarely with mala fide, has programs to provide free medication to those Americans that can ill-afford, say, a $60,000/yr MS or cancer meds. Just a week ago, #Pharma announced a breakthrough #malaria Med--after more than a century of trial and disappointment, yup...

5)...100 years of unreimbursed research investment. Now, a health Revolution in the suffering and death against #malaria will soon be available to millions of children and families in Africa, Central and South America, etc. Now, they will reap the monies needed to build labs...

6)...employ thinkers, researchers and doctors, then conduct trials and manufacture to attack more hellish diseases to find another lifesaving, life-easing boon to mankind. Where #graft exists, it will be found. Where health helps result, congratulate and celebrate.
@jstormogipson

7) Finally, an America driven by faithless suspicion, lies and baseless divisions simply cannot survive. These attitudes of thanklessness and contempt, too often stoked by greed, bias or ignorance ARE resulting in a collapse from within. Difference is not an automatic adversary.

8) Difference once provoked an industrial revolution, scientific advancement, literary exceptionalism, athletic prowess, musical genius. Now, we devolve into deadly, violent dispute, not dutiful discussionn and informed debate. The Founders warnings and deToqueville's insights...

9) ...give us a path to an American spirit that is, at once, different/by individuality and corporate/by citizenry. We've read
this before; it's familiar. May we move from demonization, positively determined, toward the promises of the #Preamble...for all. We are a slow-moving...

10)...clumsy giant; but we have had an influence for good in the world as we fought, if only united by majority, to overcome our own ills to help people groups and nations taste our messy freedoms of person and soul. #TrumpEffect has made us a nation normalizing suspicion,...

11) ...amorality, graft, lies--violence. We attack issues as existential divisions. We will not survive existential civil conflict without the capacity to even address a #pandemic with reason, an issue common to us all. Factchecking, audit and research prove the...
@kristolconvos

12) ...mainstream #Press largely reliable, #Election2020 true, and Covid real. Yet, a third of our nation denies these facts,as they're free to do. Naysayers are not an historical aberration, but it DOES NOT excuse seditious violence that subverts Const'l process.
@elhombrelibre1

13) Nor does ignorance excuse criminally boorish behaviors or lies. Criminal lying, rooted in moral standard, has been in our legal code over a century. Election deniers,#antivax folks, etc have gone astray via criminal lying, grifting, or their own research failure.
@John_Scotus

14) We simply must be more mature in our criticism, as #GenMcCrystal framed it in his new book, "#Risk." In discussions, often veering from the subject, folks devolve to insult and threat. Anger seethes, divides deepen, and falsehoods cement, and the American landscape?
@dccra

15) Our nat'l "landscape" is increasingly rocky, gutted, untillable. We must stop lying, shouting, accusing, suspecting, return to moral ethics, reject the uncharactered, violent, and purjured to embrace the forthright and dutiful. Else, we will starve...to death.
@PatrickJKiger