> Type 1 diabetics have been managing their insulin for decades with occasional blood sugar testing - i.e. certainly not testing for every dose. They’d be fine

> Type 1 diabetics have been managing their insulin for decades with occasional blood sugar testing - i.e. certainly not testing for every dose. They’d be fine to manage things for a period without a confiscated monitor. This is similar to saying "X person can survive without y medicine which has only been around for 10 years". Or "people survived fine without seatbelts for so many years". That's a classic survivorship bias, because a ton of diabetics didn't survive, who'd possibly have a much higher chance of surviving today with current tech. Heck, I personally know the brother of a late diabetic who would've been alive today if he had a phone connected to a CGM because of it's low glucose alarm function. I understand HN is a place for discussion, but in potentially deadly situations like this, it's worth avoiding to make statements against medical care.