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by throwaway22032 1597 days ago
There are an unfathomable number of possible things that could be wrong with you at any one time. All of those might not be present in 99% of people and present in 1%.

But the 1% is not the same for every disease. If you perform unnecessary interventions on everyone for every disease, then you also perform unnecessary interventions on the 1% of every disease for all of the other diseases that they don't have.

Now you've given everyone weird cancers because you've done thousands of x-rays and CT scans for all manner of things.