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That's not 'scary' it's rational.

What's 'scary' are the stakes involved.

People in 'comfortable offices' are right now deciding who gets vaccines, and who will not until later.

People are dying in the US due to lack of access to healthcare due to other people making decisions in 'comfortable offices'.

We entrust those in positions of power with such legitimate authority.

And finally: "I think this option is more favourable to us than peace" - is an inappropriate analogy because it's generally never the case. If the US were to have entered WW1 and 2 earlier, a lot of lives would have been saved. While those were easier decisions in hindsight, they're all nuanced, for example, the US+Coalition decision to liberate Kuwait after Saddam's incursion.




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