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Mr. Koonin, whose careful book draws extensively on existing scholarship, may respond on the merits in a different forum. Suffice it to say here that many of the 'fact check' claims relied on by Facebook don't contradict the underlying material, but instead argue with its perceived implications.
"Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject's politics." โ Matt TaibbiWhat fascinates us about sex, I suppose, is that most everyone wants it and seeks it, driven by irresistible natural impulses, and yet the act itself is such an affront to civilized decorum that it inspires both comedy and horror, two states of consciousness that are themselves irresistibly compelling. Add lawyers to all that and you find yourself entering the realm of opera bouffe, which is to say, kitsch, human expression reduced to its most self-consciously ridiculous.
Comment: As noted these shortages are just getting worse, particularly it seems in Western nations, and those governments that are reporting shortages don't seem to have come up with a solution.
Considering how a number of these medications are essential for emergency and critical healthcare, it's highly likely that they're already having a quantifiable, detrimental, impact on public health. Furthermore, should there be serious shortages of medications used for mental health, it may result in a significant proportion of the population, who are dependent, into going without; and the fall out of patients who are forced to taper off to quickly, or going cold turkey, could have disastrous consequences for society: