• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    If that were true then there would be evidence that stopping them decades ago had a negative impact, but it did not.

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      1 month ago

      I’m confused why something like that could just be flatly asserted. There are lots of articles you can find about underdiagnosis in the UK of conditions that things like generalized regular checks make an effort to find. Aside from the public health topic in a more general sense, could you explain about annual checkups being stopped decades ago? I’d be interested to learn about the history there but I’m having a hard time finding it because I’m pretty bad at this sort of thing.