Us old folks remember a greater scourge that was hitting the country.
Dr. Jonas Salk gave away his Vaccine and every kid in the country got it for free, the government paid for it. The government can do it again.
It is not socialism, it is not the nanny state, it is nothing but a government doing what it is supposed to do, protecting the people. By the way a Republican was in charge then.
To any anti-vax'rs out there, vaccines work, when is the last time you saw a kid in an
Iron Lung If you went in, it was two weeks, kind of Ironic don't ya think...
Dr. Salk's wiki page People can be ... I'll leave the rest of it unsaid.
This is exactly what I am talking about.
We should be treating this exactly the same way we treated polio.
Americans and anyone else living IN America deserve to have this essential medication given to them simply because they are IN AMERICA, a country which "provides for the general welfare" during things like public health emergencies.
Not a single person should be told, "Sorry, no Remdesivir for you, you can't afford it."
We CANNOT AFFORD TO EVEN THINK OF saying that.
It's pure insanity.
We aren't talking about an ordinary disease, we're talking about a pandemic, a global pandemic.
I too grew up in the shadow of the polio years.
I DID see children who had to live in an iron lung, I DID see children who had to use crutches for the rest of their lives due to polio.
This is worse than polio because it has the potential to kill you outright, not just take your ability to walk.
It not only takes your ability to move your diaphragm to breathe, it takes your ability to even get oxygen if you CAN move your diaphragm.
An iron lung isn't even enough to keep someone with CV19 alive.Think about that.
