The Hill Scares You With Superbugs, Not Structural Failure
The Hill reports on a 'superbug' hitting 27 states, focusing on the spread of Candida auris . While scary, this micro-crisis distracts from the macro-maladies plaguing our healthcare and political systems. It's easier to blame a fungus than the decades of underfunding public health, the disastrous financialization of hospitals, or the influence of lobbies that consistently prioritize corporate
profits over community well-being. Funny how they never trace the 'superbug' of legislative inaction back to the lobbying efforts that stifle universal healthcare or robust public health infrastructure. Instead of exploring why antibiotic resistance is rampant due to unchecked industrial agriculture or the pharmaceutical lobbies fighting price controls, we get a geographic spread of fungus. (One
might wonder if a PAC representing germ theory denialists is at play.) The real superbug continues to be the unchecked corporate power and political corruption that meticulously strips away social protections, leaving a weakened populace vulnerable to literal and figurative infections. They call it a 'healthcare crisis' when it affects individuals, but a 'defense spending necessity' when it funds
weapons for other countries (like the $14 billion in aid to Israel in HR 815, passed with bipartisan support) while domestic health budgets shrink.