WaPo: She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this

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142. "...or chemo treatment..."

Let's talk about cancer and chemo.

A dear friend of mine has a rare form of cancer, a new treatment for which is on the threshold of being tested in humans, thanks to a study by the NIH. Without this new treatment it's almost certain she will be dead in eighteen months, two years at most. It might be the treatment won't be as effective as hoped. It might be she won't be eligible for the first clinical trials. But this was the only hope she had left. Without it, she knows she's doomed to a very early and tremendously painful death.

And guess what? Because of the Trump/Musk jihad against the NIH, it looks like progress on this new treatment is stopped cold. Clinical trials are on hold. Even if they resume, this delay might well prove to be the margin between her life and painful death.

So please tell me again how I should "walk in the shoes" of someone who has helped kill my friend's last and only hope of survival.

How about she take a stroll in the footwear of some of the people whose lives she's helped ruin? How about she and others like her get confronted with the pain her "agonizing" decision has and will cause so many others?

I suspect the only reason she regrets her decision now is because her own life has been impacted. Otherwise I doubt she'd give one solid shit about anyone else who is being crushed by this monstrous regime.