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Originally Posted by Ch28
We'd be absolutely fucked if the entire earth's population was 750 billion people.
I can see where twdm is coming from. Whether you agree or not with his/her views is entirely up to you, but it doesn't make it any less valid.
"We refuse to spend hundreds of thousands per patient on novel cancer treatments but we're willing to spend millions per patient and put millions into poverty to prevent deaths of people who are honestly probably going to die within the next 5 years."
He's not wrong with that statement. It becomes one of those "for the greater good" situations.
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so if 80-90% of the people born before 1965 drops dead in the coming months, it's all good?
we FINALLY have governments trying to work collectively and then out comes the 'stop fearmongering' voices, from someone who's directly involved in medical care no less? that's truly the scary part...hope he tells us where he works so I can advise friends in HK not to visit there in case they need pharmacy care
yes there's still so much work to be done to minimize casualities from climate change, genocides, poverty but there hasn't been an issue that's this widespread challenging our human race in 100 years. You look at famines, natural disasters and they're mostly localized. Even world wars/depression wasn't felt in every last household. A pandemic this wide affects just about everyone.