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>Yes, but they are super expensive and limited right now. Okay. Make them not super expensive and limited. It's not like the Fed is going to stop printing mone

>Yes, but they are super expensive and limited right now. Okay. Make them not super expensive and limited. It's not like the Fed is going to stop printing money any time soon. >Trying to pretend that we have the resources to treat this once someone gets a severe case (both in terms of medicine and hospitals beds) is nuts. Why? Both of those things (medicine and hospitals) are limited by money and physical infrastructure right now. We're 2 years into this pandemic, and I think it's time for a dose of reality that should covid become endemic we'll need more of those. It's like we just said "get vaxxed and the pandemic ends" over and over and enough people actually believed that and in the meantime we did nothing to solve production issues or build more hospital beds.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
They are hard to make, so currently the "expensive" part simply corresponds to the amount of effort and material needed to make them, see https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2021/10/04/monoclonal-antibodies-expensive-hard-manufacture-covid-coronavirus/5887418001/ https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2021/10/04/monoclonal-an... > Both of those things (medicine and hospitals) are limited by money and physical infrastructure right now. We are spending stupid amounts of money on healthcare right now. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of our inflation problems build up from the amount of resources we are redirecting into healthcare. > It's like we just said "get vaxxed and the pandemic ends" over and over and enough people actually believed that and in the meantime we did nothing to solve production issues or build more hospital beds. We underestimated how many people would not want to get vaxxed, and how many don't want to wear face masks, how many idiot governors don't want to take responsibility for their states. But ya, if this gets endemic, we will live on, but we will also pay the price for that.
- spurgu 5y ago
  > we will also pay the price for that. You won't, you'll be vaccinated and wearing a mask.
  - seanmcdirmid 5y ago
    It doesn’t matter, the costs are socially distributed even if just through insurance premiums.
  - fineIllregister 5y ago
    Vaccines and masks don't prevent all the other health ailments that might require medical attention (and someone can still get a breakthrough case, even though it is less likely, and in that case less likely to need intervention). We all pay the price when treatment is delayed or denied because the hospital is overflowing with COVID patients. Or because all our medical staff have quit because society feels they should bear unlimited amounts of trauma.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago

They are hard to make, so currently the "expensive" part simply corresponds to the amount of effort and material needed to make them, see https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2021/10/04/monoclonal-antibodies-expensive-hard-manufacture-covid-coronavirus/5887418001/ https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2021/10/04/monoclonal-an... > Both of those things (medicine and hospitals) are limited by money and physical infrastructure right now. We are spending stupid amounts of money on healthcare right now. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of our inflation problems build up from the amount of resources we are redirecting into healthcare. > It's like we just said "get vaxxed and the pandemic ends" over and over and enough people actually believed that and in the meantime we did nothing to solve production issues or build more hospital beds. We underestimated how many people would not want to get vaxxed, and how many don't want to wear face masks, how many idiot governors don't want to take responsibility for their states. But ya, if this gets endemic, we will live on, but we will also pay the price for that.

spurgu 5y ago
> we will also pay the price for that. You won't, you'll be vaccinated and wearing a mask.
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  It doesn’t matter, the costs are socially distributed even if just through insurance premiums.
- fineIllregister 5y ago
  Vaccines and masks don't prevent all the other health ailments that might require medical attention (and someone can still get a breakthrough case, even though it is less likely, and in that case less likely to need intervention). We all pay the price when treatment is delayed or denied because the hospital is overflowing with COVID patients. Or because all our medical staff have quit because society feels they should bear unlimited amounts of trauma.