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RE: Socialism works so well it brought back polio!
2 facts:
For Polio and most vaccinable deseases the "socialist" countries were better then the US
Venezuela stopped being socialistic and is deep on the way to dictatorship when Maduro come in power 2014.
Just for fun here the Propaganda sheet from Eastern Germany with the polio cases and death, and on the downside the death in Western Germany
(from German Wikipedia)
Of course, Venezuela is a bad example anyway, both for socialism or cpaitalism, since it is an extreme case of the Dutch Diseasem which has brought down the country after the oil prices fell as a result of the US-induced banking crisis and price drops through fracking.
Point 1: I will need a credible reference for that
Point 2: Not real polio!
Point 1: WHO I guess, use google
Point 2: What???
point 1: you are the one who made an argument, show me your evidence and convince me (propaganda posters won't cut it)
point 2: ok, I should have said "not real communism/socialism", hope now you get the joke. If you ask me, venezuela is the perfect example of end stage socialism.
Weirdly point 1 is true (reference), but it should in no way be synonymous with a good thing. From what I gather most communist countries (at least) had compulsory vaccination, so its more like the North Korean strategy from World War Z than how we would see health care in the west. Effective but not overly "patient centred".
This has proven to backfire since many of the eastern bloc became independent. Not sure why but might be a very understandable distrust in all things government.
Not at all weirdly.
Good health care for everyone is one of the central ideological points after all. They may fail at it, and you may not like the methods, like compulspry vaccination, but weird? not at all!