One thing that has become very clear since The Covid Happening is the extent to which the US state is essentially a form of soft socialism. Government agents declared they had rights to tell you where you could go, and when. They could tell you what to put on your face and then what they could put into your body. So called "emergencies" were the ever present loopholes by which the state could just up and decide what the market does.
Climate emergency, No more gasoline powered cars. Who gave the government such power?
Bloomberg decided that you shouldn't be able to get a soda.
Murphy and Cuomo decided you couldn't get a plastic or paper bag when you go buy your food.
Now come the 15 min cities, congestion pricing being the gateway drug for that.
But that's not the topic. No, the topic is that some genius thinks it is the job of NYC to end diabetes.
The report calls for the opening more diabetes treatment centers in hospitals in poor neighborhoods, overhauling Medicaid reimbursement to cover more diabetes monitoring and prevention programs, expanding healthier food options in underserved communities and sponsoring public health campaigns
As is usual with Democrats, everybody has an angle on how to get paid off the taxpayer dime.
Here's the deal, Type II diabetes is almost 100% the cause of lifestyle choices of the person so afflicted. They literally ate and sat their way into the disease. It was their choice. Neither the city nor the state of NY (or the feds) need to do anything for persons so situated.
There is plenty of advice out there on how to eat (and live) to prevent Type II diabetes. If you have a smartphone with Rumble or YouTube, you can find this stuff out easily.
Your health is YOUR job. Too many people want to hand that responsibility to daddy state and then have daddy state expropriate money from the rest of us to enforce dumb and intrusive programs in order for the "do gooders" to feel like they are "doing something".
Also, this is a sneaky means of getting the state to promote vegan and vegetarianism. I'm glad Mayor "Bull Connor" Adams found his results in a plant based diet but that is not the only means of dealing with Type II diabetes. The reason it worked for him (and other diets for others) is because these diets severely limit the amount of added sugar and carbs a person intakes. That is the no. 1 key.
See. Solid advice with nary a taxpayer dime spent.
