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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by x3n0ph3n3 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:52PM (#30089995)
Especially since hospital capacity is induced scarcity due to government regulation and the AMA.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by tzs on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:56PM (#30090810)
We'd be having the same shortages right now even in a completely unregulated free market hospital system. A free market isn't going to build and maintain a bunch of extra capacity that goes unused except during once in a hundred year outliers like major pandemics.

All that an unregulated free market would change is how we decide who gets treated when there isn't enough capacity to treat everyone.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by walterbell on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:00PM (#30090112)
Or firing doctors and nurses who recovered from Covid and declined vaccination.
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