News headline: Cancer Deaths Plummet

"Deaths from all types of cancer in the US fell by an estimated 33% since 1991, saving a cumulative 3.8 million lives, according to a report released yesterday by the American Cancer Society. Progress was attributed to improvements in cancer treatment, EARLY DETECTION, and significant drops in smoking."

All good news.  However, if early detection is so important to saving lives, an irrefutable logical conclusion would simply be that suspending it would INCREASE those deaths.  We don't know yet, but it is likely that we will eventually learn, the government's policy to do just that will reveal such an increase.  This may already be evident in the rise in what is called "excess deaths".  What's certain is that THIS won't be as widely reported.

“Far More Human Lives Have been Lost over the past century as a result of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital than from smoking cigarettes.  Would it therefore be appropriate to require every copy of Das Kapital to carry a warning label saying, ‘Reading this book may be dangerous to social and personal health?'”
- Milton Friedman

If they ever do, I suggest simply "Government kills".

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