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Calling rabies preventable can hide the work prevention requires: vaccinated dogs, immediate wound care, stocked clinics, correct treatment, repeat visits, and surveillance that joins them together.
Modern justice systems prioritize downstream punishment over upstream prevention, a strategy that consistently fails. This piece examines why societies invest in reactive measures rather than addressing root causes of harm.
Smoke-free laws cut heart-attack admissions by about 13% across eighteen studies — nobody had to be persuaded of anything. Meanwhile a review of systematic reviews found that mass media campaigns are among the interventions with evidence of increasing inequalities between income groups, not reducing them.
