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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/43234456
I feel like if you asked a conservative (which I assume this guy is) "should insulin be given away for free to save lives and ease the burden of illness?" he'd say no, because he's a stupid sack of shit that doesn't care about other people even if that would improve his own life. And double-no if those people were getting free treatment.
The virtues of free treatment for diabetes, cancer, and epilepsy not withstanding, the difference between them and COVID is that they aren’t contagious. The benefit of treating them is linear, while the benefit of slowing the spread of COVID was exponential.
Well, I mean they weren’t free. The gov paid the drug companies quite a lot if I recall correctly. Free would be even better though.