• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Implementing that recommendation would mean removing vaccines for these diseases from the recommended schedule:
    hepatitis A
    hepatitis B

    No one can live without a Liver, which is exactly what hepatitis attacks and kills. Tweakers will steal your catalytic converter off your car for $40. When a market exists with a $20,000 street value for a liver, and there’s a liver in every jerk walking around in public, random kidnapping and organ theft is going to be a thing regular thing in about 20 years in the USA.

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      19 hours ago

      There is no backyard surgeon way of transplanting a liver - these people will just die.

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        17 hours ago

        There’s an international organ black market and plenty of people with medical training willing to participate in it if the pay is good enough, though.

        The people will likely still die, but misery profiteers probably WILL still step up organ theft as a result of this awful decision from the kakistocracy.

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          17 hours ago

          There might be some heroic backyard surgeons who try, but mostly this is done in normal hospitals, it’s just that no one is asking where the organ comes from.

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            8 hours ago

            It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to kill someone and take their liver, I’m not sure why we’re acting like the black market organ trade gives a shit whether the people they steal organs from live or die. You could easily harvest a person for parts on a table the way you would a deer or any other animal.