It would be better if the journalist would cover the systemic failings of medical emergency system that could not cope and ran out of "oxygen"

Just a heads up mate, that's not how you treat an asthma attack. The lungs having an attack wouldn't be able to handle normal oxygen around them let alone extra pumped straight at em.

They were saying that they could not even convince the chemist in such a medical emergency to let people buy their medications off script.

My experience with Chemists as a Chronic asthmatic, is that asthmatics are treated like scum, and even when you have a script Chemists talk like as if you are a drug addict, and that you need to see a Doctor straight away. You are always under suspicion, and you might as well be a heroin addict they way they behave towards you.

Also on this, whenever I bring up that stuff on reddit, I get barraged with Pharmacist apologists who say it's the Pharmacist sacred duty to treat asthma sufferers like crap because it saves lives.

I do go to the Doctor, and he tells me just to buy over the counter. I am also on a preventer. But at the Chemist, I also have to discuss my personal medical history so all the shop can here it, over and over and over. Even then I get challenged and shit like as if I'm lying.