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Who knows - cure for cancer might happen in 2017 - why stick around in the 1990s!
Maybe there will be a cure for cancer in the future but...another disease will probably pop up like HIV/AIDS did, which didn't exist in the 70s (or 60s?).
There was just as much tragedy and sadness. There just wasn't a 24-hour news cycle that brought that information to us, so we just didn't hear about it.
Was there just as much tragedy and sadness in the past? It seems like there's more now. Maybe it's the 24-hour news that makes it seem like it.
Was there as much tragedy and sadness in our society in the past? It seems a lot of people take various pills to feel better these days.
An endless supply of illegal labor continues to cheapen all labor turning workers of the past life of dignity into a fight for survival and a race to the bottom.
I have had way too many friends suffer and die from cancer and others who are fighting it now. The war on cancer seems like a scam. I do not see the so-called progress but do see families going broke from medical treatments that do not do much if anything. Your physician is one of the leading causes of dying. We are told the age of antibiotics is over. You can easily die from something you pick up in the hospital.
I am a 38 year veteran R.N. and a 13 year cancer survivor. My late father had a very aggressive mouth cancer in his late 40s, no recurrences, and lived to age 87. My mother had the same cancer as I in her early 50s, no recurrences, and lived to age 78. My older sister just had a kidney removed following a renal cancer diagnosis and expected to have an excellent long term prognosis. Our survival from this deadly disease happened because we had knowledgeable doctors and tests available that diagnosed our cancers early, and treatment at early stage made our survival possible. Those tests that diagnose cancer early came about through years and years of work in research labs, so if the war on cancer is a scam why is so much money and time is being invested into it ? Although a different disease but just as deadly as cancer, if you were diagnosed with AIDS in the 80s your chance of survival was slim because those immune drug cocktails had yet to be created in the research lab. I witnessed many horrific deaths in my work as a result of AIDS, and with the research that developed the drugs to treat AIDS, those diagnosed when those drugs were available went on to live pretty healthy lives. I have 3 close friends that are 20+ year AIDS survivors that would not be here today without those life saving drugs.
Hopefully you will never have to face a cancer or other terminal diagnosis, but if that should unfortunately happen and you opt for treatment that proves to be successful in saving your life, you will be very grateful to those who spent years of their lives working hard in research labs that created that treatment.
[quote=Nightengale212;45397197]I am a 38 year veteran R.N. and a 13 year cancer survivor. My late father had a very aggressive mouth cancer in his late 40s, no recurrences, and lived to age 87. My mother had the same cancer as I in her early 50s, no recurrences, and lived to age 78. My older sister just had a kidney removed following a renal cancer diagnosis and expected to have an excellent long term prognosis. Our survival from this deadly disease happened because we had knowledgeable doctors and tests available that diagnosed our cancers early, and treatment at early stage made our survival possible. Those tests that diagnose cancer early came about through years and years of work in research labs, so if the war on cancer is a scam why is so much money and time is being invested into it ? Although a different disease but just as deadly as cancer, if you were diagnosed with AIDS in the 80s your chance of survival was slim because those immune drug cocktails had yet to be created in the research lab. I witnessed many horrific deaths in my work as a result of AIDS, and with the research that developed the drugs to treat AIDS, those diagnosed when those drugs were available went on to live pretty healthy lives. I have 3 close friends that are 20+ year AIDS survivors that would not be here today without those life saving drugs.
Hopefully you will never have to face a cancer or other terminal diagnosis, but if that should unfortunately happen and you opt for treatment that proves to be successful in saving your life, you will be very grateful to those who spent years of their lives working hard in research labs that created that treatment.[/QUOTE]
Ever hear of WWI, or WWII, or the Korean War or Vietnam?
Remember when we had a much smaller population and almost twice the traffic deaths?
Remember when polio and other infectious diseases caused serious illness and deaths?
Not to mention inequality amongst the races and also sexism. No civil rights laws and no equal opportunity laws kept plenty of people in misery. These laws now in effect may not always be properly adhered to but at least they are there so that when they are violated those who are discriminated against have some recourse in the courts.
If folks would carefully re-read the OP, the suggestion was not to go back to the mid 20th Century (or earlier). The OP was questioning the past 15 years. Especially when compared with the previous 10 or 15 years (e.g. 1986 or 1991 through 2000).
BTW - after reviewing a number of metrics, my personal Golden Age was 1990 - 2001. My career was ascendant, the content of my work was supremely invigorating, my social life was splendid, new technology was repeatedly adding serious value ... just a wonderful time in history.
If folks would carefully re-read the OP, the suggestion was not to go back to the mid 20th Century (or earlier). The OP was questioning the past 15 years. Especially when compared with the previous 10 or 15 years (e.g. 1986 or 1991 through 2000).
True. There's been a lot of innovation, but probably more negative social aspects of those innovations than in many previous years.
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