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I'm definitely not one of those, but kind of playing devil's advocate, you have to acknowledge that the more people there are who can't/won't take certain meds/ingredients, the more pressure there is on the industry to make alternatives, and this could be a genuine silver lining in an otherwise really shitty situation.
The whole gluten-free craze created a ton of market pressure to produce good, tasty gluten-free foods. This was genuinely fantastic for people with coeliac disease, suddenly there's a ton of options for them to eat at mainstream places! The gluten-free movement (no pun intended) may have been dumb, and maybe it caused some harm (did it?), but it definitely caused a significant amount of good, even if by accident.
I know it's not the same situation and it's still obviously wrong to be happy with what these ticks do, but you can still take the good with the bad.
Living in the past. They dont make things to solve problems anymore. They make things to create problems. So, I’m assuming, people with this will just go on a list of inferior humans for culling.
Current markets seem happier to let poor folks suffer, unfortunately. And generic meds that are produced in countries with little regulation/oversight especially aren’t going to get magically reformulated to needed specifications if they lower profit margins. Even if there was market pressure, the medical solutions would likely be restricted to those who could afford name branded, specially formulated medications.