CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration

I've had to use the CDC lab to figure out a drug-resistant Trichomonas infection. Lots of very skilled people at that facility and this is a bad one to lose; it was the only lab that did those sorts of tests. There's not enough money in it for commercial labs.

How is there not enough money in it? Do only poor people get these sorts of issues? Serious question, no shade on poor people.

It is so very important that we all understand this: not everything worth doing is profitable. Not everything which creates value for the economy or protects society is profitable. A system that expects all worthwhile things to be profitable will simply fail to do all worthwhile things and society will be worse for it. That society may appear to be functioning but it will not be the best society possible.

> A system that expects all worthwhile things to be profitable will simply fail to do all worthwhile things and society will be worse for it

I agree with the spirit of your message, but you're going way too far using all there. Some are not profitable, and the society is likely better off to socialize these. As a simple example: it's not profitable to provide food and housing for people without means, but if you don't, your society will be worse off - simply because these people will be forced into directions that are generally harmful to your living spaces.

Sure, you could increase police presence in this particular example, but that'd still be an effective socialization, because now you just put them on jail, which is even more costly then just providing them housing and food.