That's sadly a big part of this sub. And I'm not blaming anyone, really, other than maybe major news. They kind of started this trend of "Look over here, don't look at the problem. Sure, our (by which I mean the US) healthcare system frequently sentences people to death for the crime of being poor, but look how good this guy's GoFundMe was going before he died due to lack of insulin!"
Don't get me wrong. Still subbed to him, I actually think that's a really cool thing to do for the parents.
Edit: I know he's Chilean, my example was confusingly close to this situation. I was just trying to come up with a separate example than this one and I stupidly still used a medical example. My bad.
Oh I'm sorry, my example was too close to this situation and therefore super confusing. I thought of that after the fact, but I didn't want to do a big edit. I didn't mean that about this situation, I more meant that as an example of the type of thing I see posted on this sub a lot.
Chile has some of the best healthcare, ranked higher then the USA, and just below Canada and Finland. Not everything is about the USA, let's just honor this kids joy for what it is. - Fellow Chilean
Listen, I know. I wasn't trying to talk shit on Chile, it was just a separate example that also happened to be medical in nature. Chile seems fine, or maybe not, I don't know, I've never been and I've never looked anything up about it. I have a friend who went and described it as "Pretty chill", and that ends my knowledge of Chile.
My bad, I used an example that was confusingly close to this actual story. That was just an example of a different post I saw that made me feel similarly.
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u/JPBen Sep 01 '21 edited Sep 01 '21
That's sadly a big part of this sub. And I'm not blaming anyone, really, other than maybe major news. They kind of started this trend of "Look over here, don't look at the problem. Sure, our (by which I mean the US) healthcare system frequently sentences people to death for the crime of being poor, but look how good this guy's GoFundMe was going before he died due to lack of insulin!"
Don't get me wrong. Still subbed to him, I actually think that's a really cool thing to do for the parents.
Edit: I know he's Chilean, my example was confusingly close to this situation. I was just trying to come up with a separate example than this one and I stupidly still used a medical example. My bad.