I've heard more than one person surmise that Covid-19 was designed to "cull-the-herd and eliminate the stumps".

Unfortunately the reaction to Covid-19 cast a very wide net and the fear generated by this novel (man-tweaked) virus caused widespread loss for us older employees thanks to fear that old-age is somehow co-morbidity.

If a life of productive achievement is the goal, then it must be imperative that employers be held accountable for firing us "gummers" based upon looks and other nonsense instead of intelligence and productivity.

Yes, I think that there is a time when you realize that life is over for you (when you can no longer be productive).
That day is when you are being put in a nursing home.

Collectivists always deal with groups first and individuals last or not at all. Whenever they gain or seize power, they treat their fellow citizens via the same relationship as Ranchers to Cattle. Ranchers control every aspect of the cattle’s life from pre-birth to post-death. Collectivists never question that they are the Chosen ones whose destiny it is to control the Earth – which includes deciding how many humans should be allowed to exist at any one time and in what condition they should do so. They never admit mistakes nor apologize for damages caused. Being God means never having to say sorry.

You nailed it here “…For interventionist-welfare statists, of course, the least painful course is to continue all the above programs and policies. And declare a grand strategy of using government’s dominant position in funding research—relentlessly aggrandized since WWII—to steer the national biomedical research enterprise toward the goal of shorter but proportionately healthier (i.e., more productive, cheaper for the welfare state) lives…”

Politicians are little more than parasites. But parasites can and do overwhelm and kill their hosts. They have long dreamed of a future paradise of a unified planet controlled by the Elite. How close have they come in 2024?

Microplastics - who knew?

Governments promote what expands its powers over its citizens now and into the future , and to benefit its minions through direct payments as well as through opportunities to benefit from the government policies.

Nowhere in this do I see how the government is designed solely to benefit the citizens, except by accident.

The real purpose of welfare is to buy votes for the elites by offering crumbs to the masses. The suckers who take the crumbs don't understand that the elites are the ones who really benefit with millions.

Under perfect conditions our life spans were supposed to be 120 years, perhaps a handfull of people have reached that since biblical times . . .it's been downhill from then on.

Why not just leave Us, our Environment and our Food alone and see what happens . . .

Sheese! just saying . . .

Wow! Me dino heard a college professor say lengthening the human lifespan would eventually break our economy at Chipola Junior College in Marianna, Florida.
That was about three years before I got drafted during 1969 and went to Troy State in Alabama under the GI Bill during 1972.

In the 1990's I sat in on a discussion group of premier medical researchers dealing with mineralized tissue aka bone. These people were at the molecular level - way beyond cells. It occurred to me that one could ask the question "how long do you want to live and who gets to make that decision?"

That's what the Wuhan Flu was for - to correct for the larger number of senior citizens.

The social welfare scheme pyramid will collapse since all the illegals won't pay into the system.....

simple solution
declare all welfare 100% unconstitutional, as it is 100% unconstitutional for the US government to send people money not earned