Parent didn't say that he or people with gonorrhea in general "would be happy to go without any treatment" -- so why do you ask him that?

He merely said that people with such needs are a few tens of thousands, and not many millions, so they don't constitute a viable market.

If your new point is that, "ok, they might not be millions, but they would still pay any price for a treatment", that would also be wrong: They might be WILLING to pay any price, but for most of them it wouldn't be possible to pay that much. There are lots of people that need stuff from surgeries to dental work, that are NOT happy not having them, but that nevertheless don't have them, because they can't afford them -- and expensive gonorrhea drugs wouldn't be much different.

Who said anything about being happy about it? You said:

> These are serious, life-threatening, life-limiting illnesses where the seller can set high prices.

This after referring to millions of cases. The response was that the only disease in your reference anywhere in that ballpark is gonorrhea. While I definitely don't want to get the clap, it is none of those things you mentioned.