Vermont Biz is bragging about a bucket of money they got after it was laundered by the Feds. It is a $20 million-dollar renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health. Get a load of this!
Vermont and Maine have the oldest populations in the U.S., which coupled with rurality, predisposes northern New Englanders to health challenges including cancer, substance use disorders, food insecurity, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and cardiovascular disease.
So, the NIH is handing out other people’s money to help the rural populations in aging states that they failed to kill with their COVID policy genocide. That’s nice. People who will need assistance after being denied doctor’s visits or surveillance testing. Individuals whose cost of living has skyrocketed under Democrats.
Once the COVID-19 pandemic became a threat to health throughout the region, the NNE-CTR also supported the NIH-funded RECOVER study of long COVID, a study of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, as well as the National COVID Cohort Collaborative registry that shares clinical data as a part of national COVID research.
I think it’s time for us to accept that the biggest threat to public health, especially to the aging in America, is the people tasked with overseeing public health.
The best thing Maine of Vermont could do for them is to find ways to protect them from the Federal Government and not tie them (or their own taxpayers) to more inside-the-beltway strings.
It is a problem that will continue to get worse as States refuse to push back against Federal policy designed to make not just individuals but states more dependent on the Federal government. And not just in Maine and Vermont.
