To effectively treat disease, first you need an accurate diagnosis. The miracles of Western medicine that med school educrats pooh-pooh are largely made possible by technology like magnetic resonance imagining, which is used to diagnose everything from cancer to strokes to spinal injuries. Add it to the long list of luxuries like transportation and proper food that we may have to do without so that our moonbat rulers can display their reverence for the climate.

From NBC News:

An MRI can’t function without some 2,000 liters of ultra-cold liquid helium keeping its magnets cool enough to work. But helium — a nonrenewable element found deep within the Earth’s crust — is running low, leaving hospitals wondering how to plan for a future with a much scarcer supply.

Helium is already being rationed. There is no alternative for use in MRI.

Once again, we are told to blame Russia:

Until this year, the U.S. was counting on Russia to ease the tight supply.

But now we don’t trade with Russia, proving that we should not have become reliant for precious resources on people we don’t get along with. If only someone had foreseen this.

As usual when we are told that it’s Russia’s fault, the primary blame lies closer to home.

From How Stuff Works:

Fortunately for us, helium also gets into the natural gas that oil and gas drillers extract from the ground for use as fuel [source: University of Pittsburgh]. That gives us a supply that we can use for blowing up balloons, as well as for a wide variety of other industrial processes, ranging from arc welding to MRIs to manufacturing silicon chips for computers.

No problem then. The USA has lots of clean-burning, environmentally friendly natural gas.

Oh wait:

Improvements in the nation’s natural gas infrastructure are getting more difficult as President Joe Biden wages war against the United States’s energy grid. Regulatory burdens have plagued new pipelines and shale fracking operations under previous administrations, and Biden is intentionally making it worse. …

Pipeline projects aiming to transport natural gas from the Marcellus and Utica shale basins have been canceled, delayed, or halted because of court challenges launched by environmentalist groups and state administrations.

Challenges of this type are rigorously supported by the Biden Regime, which has gone to great lengths to hamstring energy production under the pretense that this will prevent the climate from fluctuating.

At least Creepy Joe is keeping a promise. He said he would put an end to the fossil fuels that are the lifeblood of modern civilization. Some people voted for him anyway. Put MRI on the long list of what this will cost us.

On tips from Lyle.

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