>Vaccines don’t work on a “everybody makes their own choice” basis.

In my experience they do work exactly that way, you take a vaccine and then you are far less likely to get the disease. It’s true that you cannot reach herd imunity or reduce the spread until you get a large enough population. I’m still think it’s a choice thing though.

>A pill or injection that was invented 60 years ago and costs less than a penny a dose is sold for hundreds of dollar a week.

Currently, I take 3 different generics popular generics that cost a few bucks a month. I could get it covered under my insurance, but I prefer to just pay cash without insurance to buy in larger quantities direct from Amazon as it works out to be about the same, but I don’t have to manage the inventory. I also take a semiglutide for weight loss, which costs thousands upon thousands a year that insurance brings down to $25 a month. But it wasn’t invented 60 years ago. Someday it will probably be available extremely cheap though.

I think most senior citizens would agree that most common medications that make it on the generic list really don’t cost much in the United States.