Your USAID tax&deficit dollars at work toward the high purpose of granting longevity to the most virulent human specimens drawn from the NGO and other rent-seeking elites.
Trump had better be truthful when he says that he’s “just getting started” cleaning out the virulence. I’d say BLOB has turned the globe into a superfund site except that the “toxic chemicals” of BLOB reproduce.
If successful, this will be the end of Medicare. It would expand the pool of older sicker persons unsustainably. No matter the advertising, it will not prevent all disease in that population.
Perhaps not. It may increase the instances of rapid death. Thus it may reduce medical costs.
One word: entropy.
What you may have are people who at 80 feel 40. But thanks to entropy, one little area of cells in a blood vessel in their brain has picked up enough mutations to be severely weakened. They go out for a run and get a fatal aneurysm. Without the anti-aging drugs, they would have led a more sedentary lifestyle and not triggered the aneurysm. They would have gone through a long period of medical care consumption.
Or the entropy causes a fast cancer whose progression is sped up by the anti-aging drugs.
Your point is valid. However, even what turns out to be a fatal aneurysm may consume lots of resources in a fair proportion of the cases, since the process of that death often takes hours, days, weeks before becoming final. Similarly with rapid cancers. Days, weeks or months may pass in ICU (in circumstance where there’s no living will saying ‘no thanks’, or where family insist “do everything possible”. The latter is a cost-free reflex by family members, usually for emotional reasons and poor understanding.
In any case, to know how this would play out, I think would require its actual transpiring and empirical observation. I’m not sure in which direction it would go, experientially.
Huntington’s Disease takes about a decade from the time that the person would have, in a primitive society, been abandoned by the community, until death with huge chunks of flesh rotting out of their body leaving holes big enough to put your fist in due to inadequate training at even specialized HD certified institutions.
I would have killed my beloved wife if not for the fact that I had more to do with my life than rot in prison with my remaining years. That may seem selfish to some.
Civilization is not what it seems.
Here’s how things would work in a sane society:
As described in the above ecclesiastical law, an individual Sovereign cannot challenge a person who is Shielded. The Sovereign must first challenge and kill the Sovereign who is Shielding the targeted individual. In the case where, in an individual Sovereign’s judgement, an individual they are Shielding needs to die, they must first remove their Shield which is in place only by mutual agreement in the first place (a minor exception to this is not usually relevant).
A person who is not Shielded is, by default, Sovereign unless that person is offered, and accepts, the Shield of another individual Sovereign. A person who is so debilitated that they can’t even express refusal of a Shield – such as an infant – may be unilaterally Shielded by a willing Sovereign.
In the case of a person with advanced Huntington’s Disease, it would be a rare Sovereign who who would Shield them. So that victim of HD would be an individual Sovereign, subject to challenge to a mutual hunt in nature with their former Sovereign who had judged them in need of being killed. If they did not accept the challenge (whether because they were incapable or simply refused) they would be subject to capital punishment since that is standard in the case of a Sovereign refusing a challenge.
PS: The fact that you think the above described sane society is “insane” is a symptom of being in need in psychiatric treatment. That the vast majority of “psychiatrists” would see that society as “insane” is all you need to know about “psychiatry”.
