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Back before ivermectin, there was some other medicine people thought was a COVID cure. I forget what. It treated some condition X, and the people who had condition X couldn’t get it because everyone was using it for COVID.

This one pharmacist posted on Tumblr about trying to ration the last few pills he had left. He said he’d given one dose to a COVID patient who was clearly going to die without it, because he wanted to at least try to save them. Then a certain romance novelist I used to respect sicced her followers on him, and they spammed him with messages saying he hated people with condition X and wanted them all to die. I think about that every time someone says this guy or that guy deserves Internet harassment this time

Post on Ask a Manager the other day: https://www.askamanager.org/2020/08/coming-to-work-with-covid-symptoms-dungeons-and-more.html Nursing home employee got sick. You know those new rules that are supposed to give you paid leave while you wait for your COVID test results to come back? Nursing homes are exempt from that. She didn't have enough money to go without pay while waiting for a test. So she went to work, and it was COVID after all, and six people died.

Lots of anger at the employee in the comments, but I feel like it's so much bigger than her. The nursing home isn't legally obligated to give paid leave, but could it afford to give paid leave anyway? If it can't afford it, then the government could have chosen to fund paid leave for nursing homes. Something broke to get to this point, and it's going to keep breaking.