“ Only you are responsible for your own health.” That is the stupid American credo, weaponized. It’s called “public health” for a reason.
Yes, the medical system is full of corruption and gaslighting and fraud, and yes, each of us is well advised to do our due diligence when it comes to the health of ourselves and those we care about. But only institutions, acting through lots of workers, can detect and deal with broad threats to health and welfare, and it’s so dopey that in so much of the world, that kind of pro-social activity gets sh!tcanned for profit or politics. And now the individual is told that disease and such failures are all their own fault?