The price hikes, however, came months before the coronavirus outbreak morphed into a global pandemic, and well before physicians and scientists came to believe chloroquine might prove an effective treatment.
In the past two weeks, Rising Pharmaceuticals slashed the price in half as interest in the drug erupted.
A false news title is worse than pharma companies jacking up prices.
Exactly! People think the Internet is like Disneyland but it's actually more like the bad parts of Bangkok.
Somewhere between the inter-networked machines and peoples' minds some kind of magical thinking takes over.
Why don't normal people understand that they are being actively fought by organized relentless enemies?
In the old days cities had walls around them, I think we're barely getting to that point on the internet now, despite repeated and continuous raids by all kinds of marauders.
Or the digital world is an incredibly huge and complicated place that most people don't even begin to grasp. What is private and public is not obvious, and everything can quickly leak, be accidentally shared, ... And you lose control.
Stop blaming the users for what is systemic and legal faults - and in many cases really an issue not even of laws or of enforcement. Think revenge porn - nothing you can do to stop it, and only so much you can do to contain it once it's out there.
Look I'm not saying it's fair, I'm saying that, if you want e.g. control of your own nudie pics, you got to (excuse me) come correct. Don't take them on your phone, and don't ever let them onto a computer that's connected to the internet. Better yet, don't use digital at all, use film and keep it in a safe, like everyone did before pocket computers with radio networking and hi-res camera became ubiquitous.
There are things you can control and things you can't, eh?
I do blame the users. They buy a book of matches and proceed to burn their own house down. Either they're children or just incredibly stupid. That everybody else is doing it too changes nothing IMO.
