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Collimator

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8. This may also be why so many medicines

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 19, 2020, 08:44 PM

Jun 2020

are rolled out and sold en mass before large scale usage shows a trend towards dangerous side effects. The cost of the lawsuits is absorbed by the ridiculous profits. And many people don't have the wherewithal to follow through with lawsuits.

Even when something reaches class action status, many people are overwhelmed by the steps needed to participate.

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Covid deaths becoming normalized like mass shootings in US: [View all] tblue37 Jun 2020 OP

I think this is true, just another statistic until a family members sickens captain queeg Jun 2020 #1

Here's the long form story soothsayer Jun 2020 #2

we need a cure bdamomma Jun 2020 #3

We could actually do it with prevention soothsayer Jun 2020 #4

There's something about this that reminds me of Ford Motors' long-ago decision Tanuki Jun 2020 #5

Wish I could rec a post rurallib Jun 2020 #7

This may also be why so many medicines Collimator Jun 2020 #8

Just think, 466 million people in the EU only have 5k cases a day the US has 20 - 25,000 a day uponit7771 Jun 2020 #6

33,000 today--so far. nt tblue37 Jun 2020 #10

Joseph Stalin - "If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. marie999 Jun 2020 #9

Until it happens to them. Cha Jun 2020 #11

Test, trace, isolate -- but Republicans deny science and kill people. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #12