Hacker News Reader

[flagged]

As a European, please stop. I don't know why we have to be so petty towards Americans. There are kinder and more effective ways to make the point you're trying to make.

The only thing ironic here is that you probably wrote this from an iPhone.

As a Swede: please stop pretending that a European identity is a thing.

Ha. Yes, will do.

I always feel weird calling myself "European". I only did that because the parent comment was doing a EU vs US thing. Plus, I'm British and we are probably the least European Europeans.

I'm saying that EU is again lagging in providing new effective treatment - just like they were with COVID vaccine because of beurocratic penny pinching.

So I'm praising the US fast adoption of an effective treatment.

If I may take a guess, your previous comment may be getting downvoted because people misread it as fat-shaming the U.S. (which is one of the world's leaders when it comes to being overweight). That's definitely how I read it the first time, having forgotten the kerfuffle the EU went through with the COVID vaccine.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com