• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    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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      22 hours ago

      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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        15 hours ago

        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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            14 hours ago

            Ah, so your fervent wish is that the whole world was as dumb as the average American, and that if it was bad enough then millions of stupid Americans and Trump would have died. In that case, you’re right, my previous comment was totally irrelevant.

            This stupid wish doesn’t need a cursed monkey’s paw, the nicest genie in the world couldn’t have made this turn out okay.

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              14 hours ago

              Wow. That’s… one interpretation. Did you miss taking your meds this morning?

              We’re done here. I’m not dealing with someone so uncivil and plainly itching for an argument - I’ve already dealt with one of those recently & had my fill of bullshit. Good luck to you in getting your easily inflamed rage under control.

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        22 hours ago

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

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          22 hours ago
          • 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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              21 hours ago

              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?