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

[davester]

DeusxMac wrote:
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[quote=davester]
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.

because we all know that ice cream has life saving properties!
I believe davester’s point is that their actions weren’t “heroic”; they didn’t risk their lives or even their safety, by administering the vaccine.

Smart, quick-thinking, generous, practical, efficacious; absolutely! But not “heroic”.
Exactly!