“ Oregon health-care workers were stuck in a snowstorm with expiring vaccines. So, they gave shots to strangers caught i

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davester wrote:
I wouldn't call these people heroes. They were faced with a problem (expiring vaccines) and took initiative to solve it as best they could in the most obvious way available. Call them problem solvers perhaps, but this is no different than an ice cream truck's refrigerator breaking down in a traffic jam and the driver giving out the ice cream to passersby in lieu of letting it all spoil.

A distinction really worth the effort of making?

And a Klondike bar has zero to none possibility of being timely enough to potentially save a life. A vaccination given because someone thought fast and went the extra mile? Who knows what random exposure it might protect someone from later by being given now rather than later?