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06-02-2021, 06:52 PM #5826
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06-02-2021, 06:57 PM #5827
Then get fucking vaxed, for gods sake. It's on them, unless they're children, but, most aren't. I heard a number the other day that told me that 95 or 97% of hospital admissions are unvaxxed. This is a fucking wonder drug that we should be on our knees celebrating over. Sorry, not my problem anymore if somebody didn't get poked.
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06-02-2021, 07:07 PM #5828
Besides the fact that everywhere I go now, admission has become mask optional for the vaxed. Large, private corporations like Starbucks, REI, and Whole Foods are allowing the vaxed to go sans mask. I know because I visited all three today. These are companies that thought long and hard about transitioning to that, with a tower full of lawyers signing off on the decision. And it's all happening in a very blue and well educated state. Now, what does CNN know that they don't? That Trump isn't president, so they need to stoke the fear fire as long as they can to get eyeballs? Maybe.
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06-02-2021, 07:19 PM #5829Registered User
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06-02-2021, 07:32 PM #5830
Not a reason to deny claims, but discounts should be on the table. They give you a better rate if you don't use tobacco, for instance. Voluntary decisions such as vaxing should make people eligible for better insurance rates. Now if it turns out covid isn't a big risk in the long run, believe me, the insurance companies will figure that out quick and adjust. They are in the business of assessing risk and there's no guesswork involved in their game.
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06-02-2021, 07:43 PM #5831Banned
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[QUOTE=TBS;6324724]
And what makes these people believe they can just show up from Africa and get jabbed? /QUOTE]
Racist much?
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06-02-2021, 10:54 PM #5832Banned
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06-03-2021, 12:29 AM #5833
Most private insurance is job based--employer pays the same for all employees. Under the ACA age, tobacco use, and family size are the only factors that can be used to adjust rates, so adjusting insurance rates for vaccination status would require an act of Congress. And even if the increase was legal, if it was big enough to get people to get vaccinated a lot of people would choose to go uninsured instead--not the folks who can be bought with a beer but the serious antivaxers, and when they get the Covid guess who winds up paying their bills.
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06-03-2021, 06:26 AM #5834Registered User
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I wonder how many of the unvaccinated evangelicals have a “health care sharing ministry” instead of traditional health insurance. Until yesterday I didn’t know such a thing existed. Cheap but essentially unregulated and they could deny paying anything Covid related. Their target market certainly overlaps the anti vaxxers to a large degree.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/...efuses-pay-up/
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06-03-2021, 06:33 AM #5835
Jesus heals.
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06-03-2021, 08:23 AM #5836Registered User
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06-03-2021, 09:16 AM #5837
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06-03-2021, 09:29 AM #5838Registered User
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Life expectancy in 1900 was 50, yes 50 years old. as of 2020, life expectancy is closer to 78. Modern medicine is keeping people alive longer.
Nature comes along with a virus and brings us back closer to the mean, but this angle gets no press. Lots of deaths due to covid can be contributed to people that modern medicine has artificially kept them living longer.
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06-03-2021, 09:38 AM #5839
To Vaccinate or Not---The Rat Flu Odyssey Continues
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06-03-2021, 09:41 AM #5840
And a fairly large piece of that "keeping people alive longer" is eradicating, or at least controlling, infectious diseases. If you look at the list of leading causes of death in 1900 vs. today they reflect that.
"Artificially keeping people alive" is a silly thing to say in this context.
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06-03-2021, 09:48 AM #5841Registered User
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06-03-2021, 09:56 AM #5842
Not really. He's right in a way. If Covid happened in 1900, hardly anyone would have noticed, because it's primary victims were already dead.
We have an enormous amount of very old and very physically unfit people that did not exist in history. You just can't shrug that off.
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06-03-2021, 10:00 AM #5843Registered User
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06-03-2021, 10:07 AM #5844
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06-03-2021, 10:14 AM #5845
The reason we have long life expectancies FOR ADULTS:
1. Clean water and sanitation
2. Vaccination
3. Hand washing, sterile technique, and anesthesia
4. Food and drug safety
5. Antibiotics (DISTANT 5th place)
The only components of modern medicine in that list are vaccines to an extent, antibiotics, and anesthesia which all came in the first half of the 20th century or before.
The primary reason the life expectancy NUMBER is up is because of reduced infant mortality which was the primary factor in lowering life expectancy averages overall... and the things that fix infant mortality are very similar to those that save adults:
1. Vaccination
2. Hand washing
3. Clean water
4. Pasteurizing milk
5. Teaching parents basic care
Dr. Semmelweis had hand washing figured out in 1847, and he proved it, but his conclusions were rejected in Continental Europe and he was ill treated for having made his breakthrough. It took Florence Nightingale to really get the concept of handwashing accepted and implemented in the mid/late 1850s in the British Empire and then beyond.... slowly... even though US surgeons were still wiping their instruments on their boots during the Civil War.Last edited by Summit; 06-03-2021 at 10:35 AM.
Originally Posted by blurred
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06-03-2021, 10:14 AM #5846
People used to die from infections that are now treated easily with antibiotics you pick up from the pharmacy.
I’m not talking about old people being kept alive in homes. I’m talking about people on here who visit their doctor on Friday and go skiing on Saturday.
The internet tough talk from those very same people is hilarious but also sad.
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06-03-2021, 10:26 AM #5847
And the fact that most in the advanced world do not live on farms and owe their existence to farming with no economic social safety nets to speak of. Farming was/is a dangerous life.
I wish most would read more history. At least what life was like before machines and the internal combustion engine, which isn't that long ago.
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06-03-2021, 10:44 AM #5848Originally Posted by blurred
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06-03-2021, 10:50 AM #5849
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06-03-2021, 10:55 AM #5850
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