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"Love the premise. Agree wholeheartedly with the need to focus more on what’s “upstream” but no so sure about creating upstream and downstream as a binary rather than a whole. In the example of the need to understand and address causes of a headache rather than take an aspirin, why not do both? Stop tomorrow’s headache by addressing the cause and take an easy solution to stop today’s as well." Dec 14, 2024 03:03PM

 
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