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Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (18 children)

I don't really wish death upon anyone, but there are definitely times when I wish we hadn't been able to tackle COVID so quickly. Much more significant losses of people who obstinately refused to buy into the science would likely have made us come out of it FAR stronger than we did. We might not even have had Trump around any longer since he apparently got an early access dose of treatment.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    It wasn't an early access dose of treatment outside the US, my (unconnected) grandpa got the same stuff at almost exactly the same time in a country with proper healthcare.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

    No offense, but that's irrelevant since we're talking the rules the US was operating under. I'm glad your grandpa was able to access it earlier than we could, but it doesn't change the reality we were working with here.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    The point is, that scarcity in America had no bearing on if Trump would have gotten it. If there hadn't been one dose of vaccine in America, or even if it had been illegal to dispense, Trump would have had it within 12 hours of thinking it was better to have that shot than risk the most important person in his world suffer an early death.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    We all know that. I don't see how that's relevant to what I was originally saying.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Heh, you think those rules were real and not just artificial scarcity used to prop up the price tag?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)
    • There was no (direct) price tag in this instance. I'm sure we paid significantly for it through taxes, but how do you put a value on millions of lives?
    • Yes, those rules were real, and had been in place for quite some time. They were actually somewhat pared back for this issue.
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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    They were real for most everybody, with a path to exceptions in place for cases where it was a potential last ditch method of saving someone's life. Trump's treatment seemed to have bypassed even that process, but given the time constraints it was understandable.

    Are we done with the inane & irrelevant arguments now?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    he got access to the expensive monoclonal treatment, definitely not accesible to even normal health insurance customers.

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