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A month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA
by CGMthrowaway 6mo ago
A month's wage in Pakistan is about $125. So each syringe would feel like a cup of Dunkin does to many in the USA
- bastawhiz 6mo agoI have orders of magnitude more cups of Dunkin each year than I get injections at a doctor
- garbawarb 6mo agoBut Pakistanis don't.
- bastawhiz 6mo agoThe point is that if the analogy of a $0.04 syringe is supposed to be as expensive as a cup of coffee, it's still not expensive even if you do it often. Maybe they have too many injections. Either way we have a bunch of kids with a disease that can kill because someone thought something as expensive as a cup of coffee was too expensive.
- crazygringo 6mo agoWhich would be entirely reasonable cost as part of a healthcare visit. When people complain about healthcare costs, they're not complaining about things that cost the same as a cup of coffee locally.
- wildzzz 6mo agoMedian household income in US is $83k so 0.04/125 * 83k is about $26, much more than cup of coffee. If you're sticking like 15 kids a day with the same needle, that's like $400 a day saved.
- MagnumOpus 6mo agoYou are comparing monthly individual wages in Pakistan to annual household income in the US. That results in your numbers being nonsense.
- kelnos 6mo agoI feel like spending the cost of a crappy cup of coffee to get a clean needle so you don't get HIV is money well spent.