There is not really a limited supply of this old, cheap, generic medication that we routinely feed to livestock.

If you are concerned about wasting money, consider that for one dose of (also unproven!) medication like convalescent plasma you could buy about a thousand doses of generic, cheap drugs like ivermectin. And that has been tried about 500000 times, still is unproven but is not considered controversial.

So your argument is that it's a small pile of money we're lighting on fire so who cares? Not particularly compelling.

Sorry, it was your argument that the small pile of money was a large pile of money. Which it isn’t. And ‘lighting on fire’? Do you also step on the barricades when people waste their own money on homeopathic ‘medicine’?

I mean, yes, I do think homeopathic medicine is a net negative on society, and I complain about it as/when necessary. And I don't see the word "large" in front of "pile of money" in my above comment...

If you really do go around complaining about people taking expensive water because they think it helps them with their health problems perhaps you should try minding your own business a bit more. I’m sure there’s plenty of things to improve in yourself before you start pointing out other peoples problems.

> all that happened was that some Lupus patients had a hard time getting their normal prescriptions filled.

Could we actually not manufacture enough of it, or were activist pharmacists just refusing to fill prescriptions of it?