The Corona Perspective Some of You Seem to lack

[Toad1]

Originally Posted by Castle2.0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Prediction

330 - 208 Trump wins (bigger than the 304-227 where Trump thumped Clinton)

https://twitter.com/KMCRadio/status/1313529491273273344

Everything i hear suggests a biden win but i am a trump fan

regardless

trump 2024 100%

i just want my money to grow over the next 4 years instead of watching my mutual funds wedge

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's the other way around, if the so-called expert can't come up with anything a layman can't come up with, he's no expert at all regardless of the framed paper hanging on his wall. Just last month for god's sake I talked to a doctor who DID NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Dude's credentials might as well be printed on toilet paper. I'm not writing this out for the sake of argument, but to hopefully save you grief once the time comes you need health care--and make no mistake, you'll get there sooner or later* assuming some freak accident doesn't take you out. Use them as a resource, but never trust them uncritically.

*It is ordained by nature from the moment we're born, that all of us will die and most of us are going to die in misery.

Danth

This is kind contrary to my entire life's experience.

My dad had surgery that fixed something he was trying to fix for the 10 years that lead up to it. He basically became 20 years younger and is now 92, he was at a hospice at 78 leading up tot he surgery. It was covered and never had any major impact on our savings. From my perspective I was watching him get exactly the care I expected from a hospital, I was happy 100% with his treatment even when he was having no success. At no point did me or my family feel he was being jerked around, and the hospitals and doctors we talked to seemed to be working super hard to find a solution to his mystery problem. Poor guy loved red meat and had to take sipero to eat it and was only allowed to like once a year! My mother had a surgery too, all payed for by her health insurance, that surgery allowed her to walk on her knee that was giving out.

We are super super super low middle class. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I must be uber pivlaged or things have changed a lot in the last 10 years! Dad seems to still love going to the hospital like all the time to have something sewn back together, seems like to me! I call him up and he like "oh I had my arm sewed back on yesterday!" Im like lol wtf you didnt even tell me!?!

[Danth]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is kind contrary to my entire life's experience.

Might be where you live? I can accept the best and brightest of their profession aren't exactly beating down the doors to work here in Ohio. For the past 20 years or so nearly every experience I've had with the medical field has been overwhelmingly negative. Seemed like something started to go wrong with the business around circa 2000ish. When my own dad was in for for a major heart attack in 1988 it was much as you describe, nothing but a positive experience. He was as good as dead and ended up living another 20 years. I'm sincerely glad you've had better experience than I have and I wish your side of it was universal.

Danth

[Jibartik]

Originally Posted by Danth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Might be where you live? I can accept the best and brightest of their profession aren't exactly beating down the doors to work here in Ohio. For the past 20 years or so nearly every experience I've had with the medical field has been overwhelmingly negative. Seemed like something started to go wrong with the business around circa 2000ish. When my own dad was in for for a major heart attack in 1988 it was much as you describe, nothing but a positive experience. He was as good as dead and ended up living another 20 years. I'm sincerely glad you've had better experience than I have and I wish your side of it was universal.

Danth

That's gotta be it.

I did go to a new doctor when i was in the south and on the wall was a poster that said, 3 cures for upset stomach, and a glass of Coke was one of them. I was like, not sure I'm in the right place.. lol!

These examples were in some pretty good areas, my parents chose wisely, so to speak. Makes me think it's time to move home lol!

edit: my mom was from the south and she always gave me coke when I felt sick, I loved it. In collage my roommates roasted me SO HARD about it when I was sick once, and I was like, b-b-b-but its doctors orders? then 20 years later I saw that poster and was like HAH that's where my southern mom got it! :P

[Danth]

Mom would do that, but she also made sure it went flat first. It never did jack and I never cared much for flat pop either but what can you do when you're a kid and it's either that or some other medicine that's probably a whole lot less appealing?

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Toad1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everything i hear suggests a biden win but i am a trump fan

regardless

trump 2024 100%

i just want my money to grow over the next 4 years instead of watching my mutual funds wedge

Biden win + senate = stocks gonna drop

Just buy mutual funds mid 2021, VTSAX & VTIAX or FZROX & FZILX if you prefer fidelity. Even with a Trump win man, stocks may drop. The world is teetering right now, a lot of debt and not a lot of consumer spending due to covid lingering

[Blingy]

Originally Posted by strongNpretty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sugar tax is legit.. You don't need that shit.

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Sugar is by far the most costly drug / substance to our healthcare system...nothing comes close.

Originally Posted by strongNpretty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My man Kjs86z, I like you.

I agree. I drink mostly water, reasonable amount of coffee with cashew milk and the occasional cup of tea.

The people bitching about it keep saying crap like "Why do you hate poor people? Poor people drink the most sugary drinks so taxing it means you must want to keep them poor." or something like that.

If your water tastes crappy go buy a dam filter. It's a lot cheaper to filter 240 gallons of water than it is to pay tax on 10 gallons of pop.

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by Toad1 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

tofu is disgusting fake food, soy lowers T Levels and will make males fat and grow tits

great for trannies tho

Lol’ed

Tofu tastes like shit. I don’t see the point of it. Any resident Asians want to explain?

[Gwaihir]

Originally Posted by strongNpretty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Damn how did everquest produce top players in every profession? Crazy... We got the best chemists, teachers, doctors, nutritionists, politicians... Premier league here..

It's probably because i joined after classic, that's why i'm just a middle class citizen....

Double-down on stubborn refusal to accept reality, in exchange for idealism on how things "should" be.

Should =/= reality, you obdurate sumbitch.

[Blingy]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol’ed

Tofu tastes like shit. I don’t see the point of it. Any resident Asians want to explain?

My kids are Asian. My son hates it. My daughter decided to be vegetarian awhile back. I told her she can choose her own food but she needs to follow a basic food pyramid. She tolerates tofu now and then purely for her protein intake but doesn't really like it.

A couple of my Asian friends have told me if you grow up with it the flavor is just a normal flavor like anything else.