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It's an announcement that someday something may be accomplished.
Please don't pooh-pooh other people trying to make things happen. It costs you nothing to not post negative comments.
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Healthy lifestyle and food have a huge part. I date teachers a lot, and I've taken several people from constantly sick to almost never sick for 1+ year by just changing food and not going out to bars. I know this sounds like a random flippant comment, but I've done it enough times and consistently enough that I have no doubt personally.
Am I down voted because people think I am just lying for fun, or because the idea that eating right and avoiding tight places packed with people keeping you from getting sick is upsetting?
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Am I down voted because people think I am just lying for fun, or because the idea that eating right and avoiding tight places packed with people keeping you from getting sick is upsetting?
You're getting downvoted because it's annoying to spout your own success, and EXTREMELY suspect that it's replicable. It's basically spam.
A message reminding people that you can improve the resistance to basic colds/flu for a school teacher, tested on several school teachers, should be motivating for someone tired of being sick.
> Why haven’t we already seen the same kind of transformation with respiratory viruses? My favorite conspiracy-adjacent theory is that pharmaceutical companies don’t have any intention to give up the multi-billion dollar market of cold and respiratory infections palliatives. Even if there is no ill intent, there are just no market or capitalistic incentives, because a one-shot solution for these pathogens is not goin…
That has nothing to do with "the market". The market would start more new healthcare companies, and they'd be doing things like this blog post. The issue we have in many parts of the market is regulatory capture - a few companies have convinced government to make regulations that increase the cost of starting a competitor. Healthcare is definitely one of those places!
Sure, a freer market would probably have problems some or even most of those regulations prevent. And at the same time, we've created a problem. I've heard it suggested that government should always shoulder the marginal cost of regulations they create, because that's the only way you avoid a couple of players preventing new entrants.
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You're getting downvoted because it's annoying to spout your own success, and EXTREMELY suspect that it's replicable. It's basically spam.
Spam I assume would need to be pushing some product or at least agenda. A message reminding people that you can improve the resistance to basic colds/flu for a school teacher, tested on several school teachers, should be motivating for someone tired of being sick.
You asked why you're getting downvoted. I'm doing you the service of explaining it's because your comment looks spammy and annoying. Take the feedback...
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Other people getting assistance too don't take away anything from your friend at all. If you want to be angry, be angry about your government spending trillions for the military and billionaires, not about the weakest parts of society.
It doesn't "take away", but if your employer paid you $x and you were struggling, and then they gave the same $x or more to people hanging out in the parking lot, you would probably see that as a personal insult.
Bottom line, both of you are getting a shit salary while the C-Suite and their investor friends rake in a multiple of your annual salary every month.
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Spam I assume would need to be pushing some product or at least agenda. A message reminding people that you can improve the resistance to basic colds/flu for a school teacher, tested on several school teachers, should be motivating for someone tired of being sick.
A large volume of today's spam doesn't sell a product at first blush - it just piques interest, just as yours did. Then those ensnared by that, the responses, get the pitch more privately. You asked why you're getting downvoted. I'm doing you the service of explaining it's because your comment looks spammy and annoying. Take the feedback...
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It doesn't "take away", but if your employer paid you $x and you were struggling, and then they gave the same $x or more to people hanging out in the parking lot, you would probably see that as a personal insult.
That's a bit disingenuous, though; for that analogy to work, it would be the employer paying you, with a tenure of 40 years, the same shit salary as the new hire. And I get how frustrating that may feel, but it's still not the new hire's fault, but your boss's. Bottom line, both of you are getting a shit salary while the C-Suite and their investor friends rake in a multiple of your annual salary every month.
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I'm sure if we just cut taxes a little more, our modern-day robber barons will choose to use their money to fix things on their own instead of building doomsday bunkers and buying superyachts.
it will start to trickle down any moment now!
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Do you understand what ideal means? Would you rather have the government do something then people do it?
The idea used to be that they were the same. In practice, the government only represents the most sociopathic people.