“Twenty Tumors” Something is obviously wrong with your health | Follow the Data with Dr Frank

“Twenty Tumors”

Something is obviously wrong with your health, so you visit the doctor. After performing several tests, your doctor gives you the bad news: you have about twenty cancer tumors located in critical locations throughout your body.

“Are they operable?” You ask.

“Yes.” Replies the doctor, “And they all have to be removed, or you will not survive.”

“Then let’s remove them all!” You state—obviously.

“Well, there are some issues.” The doctor continues, “Some of the tumors will be expensive to remove, and some of the surgeries are inconvenient.”

“I can come up with the money.” You assure the doctor, “But what do you mean by inconvenient?”

“Well, for about half of the tumors we would have to go back to an older, manual style of surgery requiring more nurses, and the scheduling can be difficult. Also, the insurance reimbursement is more when we use the expensive new machines.”

“Well, the clock is ticking, so let’s get started.” You state, affirmatively.

“We’re only willing to remove the tumors we can using the new machines.” The doctor replies.

Obviously, you need to fire your doctor.

And obviously, you need to fire your election officials if it’s too inconvenient for them to return to a manual system of voting that is locally controlled, transparent, and can be readily audited by everyone using the system.

Every tumor must be excised. Otherwise the diagnosis for our republic is terminal.