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President’s policies may affect your family

You don’t have to be a Democrat to consider that our president’s policies may very well affect someone in your family or someone in millions of families worldwide.

Consider his refusal to fund Harvard Medical School’s ongoing research. Visit the school’s website and read the history, discovery section to see the lifesaving discoveries whose momentum has been shut down for no sensible reason.

Starting in 1799, Benjamin Waterhouse introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and helped gain acceptance for the new procedure. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes identified the cause and prevention of puerperal fever, also known as childbed fever.

In 1914, Paul Dudley White introduced the electrocardiograph to the United States.

In 1922, Elliott Joslin becomes one of the first physicians to introduce insulin to the United States and subsequently founded Joslin Diabetes Center.

Consider the effect of one individual intentionally constipating the 226-year medical discovery timeline conducted by thousands of scientists helping human beings better their lives.

Most of us have no idea who has benefited from Harvard’s research because CDS — Curiosity Deficiency Syndrome — is an invisible disease.

Chances are every cabinet member and the president himself takes one or more Harvard-discovered prescriptions.

If, tomorrow, Harvard’s labs were locked and one man held the keys — and we had to suffer illness and conquerable disease — we’d thank our lucky stars to be living here because the research flags once flew so free from politicians’ paws.

(With apologies to Lee Greenwood).

Make America intelligent again.

Jack Troy

Huntingdon

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