‘You are in danger!’ This is how the rhetoric starts. ‘But there is no need to not worry, we will fix it!’
There is a sad irony in this message. The government pretends to offer therapeutic words by identifying a problem only it can fix.
The problem is one of Iatrogenesis.
Derived from the Greek iatros, it means harm brought forth by the healer.
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