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Needs are wants with greater urgency. Demand is ensured by the ongoing widespread death associated with the virus. Government should stand ready to pay a large price to ensure supply and provide subsidy for those with less means. Regulation, in this case, introduces inefficiency. Inefficiency, in this case, costs lives.

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> Needs are wants with greater urgency.

You don't always want needs. Want is desire. Need is requirement.

People are notorious for trying to satisfy their needs with desires and left feeling unfulfilled.

I don’t always want my wants either. The point is that needs usually produce greater motivation. The alcoholic who really wants that drink describes it as a need and works to satisfy it as if it is.

Alcoholism is a disease and addiction. They feel physical withdrawal so alcohol is a need to an alcoholic.

It's sometimes hard to see that because alcoholism is a spectrum and people joke about being alcoholics. Dismissing alcohol as a vice is not unlike dismissing an autistic as overly sensitive.

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