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Pirating movies and games can't kill you
Home brewing seizure medication can
This is America dude. Human life costs $7.25 an hour here. We can't even do anything to keep children safe from their number 1 killer here.
Nobody cares. Those who do care are completely powerless to change anything.
Yes. Mistakes will happen. People will die. People die every day right now. Many of them because they can't afford life saving medicine. I'd happily take a risk on this before I'd saddle my family with $50,000 a month for medicine that you can get in Canada or Mexico for $50.
Move to Canada.
Canada doesn't accept just anyone for no reason.
Can confirm. I tried. Long time ago. Spoke to a lady at a Canadian Embassy.
I didn't meet the education requirements.
Edit - For anyone curious. I'm a Highschool grad. No college. No secondary at all. Uni or tech. So, an American HS diploma isn't enough education to be useful to a functional society In pretty much any western nation. I wasn't even mad at the time. Kinda disappointed. But yeah. I get it.
Canadians are wise.
And they have maple syrup.