"CoVID-19" is over.

[virtusa]

Yeah, boycot US companies, and the lefties will do the same. That will make America great again.
You make the biggest dream from Putin come thru: divide the American population and make them weak. With a bit of luck his second dream will come thru too: a civil war in the US.

The plebs wants to dictate companies that they don't own, what is allowed and what is not. Do you also agree that others will dictate what you can do or not?
Trump is using, I mean abusing, social media too.
He kicks out journalist that ask annoying questions.
He acts like a dictator. "I am the president, I can do whatever I wish. I can even break rules"
But that seems to be normal.

 

[Dr. Love]

Yeah, boycot US companies, and the lefties will do the same. That will make America great again.
You make the biggest dream from Putin come thru: divide the American population and make them weak. With a bit of luck his second dream will come thru too: a civil war in the US.

The plebs wants to dictate companies that they don't own, what is allowed and what is not. Do you also agree that others will dictate what you can do or not?
Trump is using, I mean abusing, social media too.
He kicks out journalist that ask annoying questions.
He acts like a dictator. "I am the president, I can do whatever I wish. I can even break rules"
But that seems to be normal.

Are you Russian?

 

[virtusa]

Are you Russian?

Not at all. But I know fairly good what happens in Russia. Russian businessmen in Moscow tell me all the time how the Western world will fall apart. I heard the first stories when in Russia was told that EU would fall apart, starting with the UK that would leave EU.
Putin is intervening all over the world. He is traumatized by the fact that Russia lost a lot of satellite countries in Eastern Europe, and NAVO installed itself in all these East European countries.
Every day on Russian TV there is propaganda and (fake) stories how bad the Western world is and how strong Russia is.
Russia has a complete army of hackers that hack all over the world governments, political parties and companies. They try everywhere to create chaos.

 

[virtusa]

I recommend Duck Duck Go as the preferred search engine. ---At least for now.

Always use Duck Duck. Reduce Google to the absolute minimum or ban it completely if you can.

Same for all social media.
When websites control what is accepted and what is not, there is no free communication anymore. There is only a controlled and manipulated "free" communication.

Best examples are: North Korea, China, Russia. If you really communicate "wrong" it will cost you your life in these countries.

 

[virtusa]

I propose that those who believe in Hydroxychloroquine, should be treated with Hydroxychloroquine. Then it will be clear very soon who is right and who is wrong. Those who believe in Hydroxychloroquine should inject it themselves. That's called "being consequent".

 

[wrbtrader]

I propose that those who believe in Hydroxychloroquine, should be treated with Hydroxychloroquine. Then it will be clear very soon who is right and who is wrong. Those who believe in Hydroxychloroquine should inject it themselves. That's called "being consequent".

In reality, since the rise of social media...

Many jobs (employers) have been using social media to determine the true behaviour of employees including firing people that are bad characters.

My point, I wouldn't be surprise if companies like health insurance companies will make socially irresponsible people foot their on bills is their insurance company proves that they've been online promoting anti-face mask wearing sentiment and many other conspiracy theories during a Pandemic.

That's an issue to could develop in democratic countries that start behaving like there's no democracy or run by leaders that abuse democracy.

We've already planted the seeds for this +40 years ago when parents in the USA had to show proof via vaccination cards from their physician that their child has been vaccinated before the school board would allow that child to be enrolled at the elementary school...at the height of several diseases that attacked children (e.g. Measles).

Back then, many insurance companies would either charge higher family rates or wouldn't insure you if you refused to vaccinate your children.

Today, I wouldn't be surprise if medical insurance companies takes it one step further via using people's behaviour on social media to determine their suitability for insurance including willing to only pay out for a particular medical treatment that the person has been advocating its use.

That's what happens when countries begin to lose their democracy. Shit happens.

wrbtrader

 

[Sig]

In reality, since the rise of social media...

Many jobs (employers) have been using social media to determine the true behaviour of employees including firing people that are bad characters.

My point, I wouldn't be surprise if companies like health insurance companies will make socially irresponsible people foot their on bills is their insurance company proves that they've been online promoting anti-face mask wearing sentiment and many other conspiracy theories during a Pandemic.

That's an issue to could develop in democratic countries that start behaving like there's no democracy or run by leaders that abuse democracy.

We've already planted the seeds for this +40 years ago when parents in the USA had to show proof via vaccination cards from their physician that their child has been vaccinated before the school board would allow that child to be enrolled at the elementary school...at the height of several diseases that attacked children (e.g. Measles).

Back then, many insurance companies would either charge higher family rates or wouldn't insure you if you refused to vaccinate your children.

Today, I wouldn't be surprise if medical insurance companies takes it one step further via using people's behaviour on social media to determine their suitability for insurance including willing to only pay out for a particular medical treatment that the person has been advocating its use.

That's what happens when countries begin to lose their democracy. Shit happens.

wrbtrader

Insurance has been doing Orwellian stuff for decades. On the one hand, it's not government so it's not really anti-democratic. On the other hand, when it becomes mandatory insurance like auto liability in most states then it does start to become questionable. That said, as someone who is the lowest possible risk on almost any insurance scale, I appreciate not having to pay higher premiums for a bunch of jackasses. Therein lies the problem I suppose.

 

[SunTrader]

Why is mandatory liability insurance questionable? What are other motorists to do if an uninsured driver collides with them.

Is mandatory licensing also questionable? And other similar measures.

Americans are "free" to walk instead.

 

[Sig]

Why is mandatory liability insurance questionable? What are other motorists to do if an uninsured driver collides with them.

Is mandatory licensing also questionable? And other similar measures.

Americans are "free" to walk instead.

It's questionable because we make the insurance mandatory then the insurers get to decide what is required to have the privilege of something that's crucial to the day to day life of most Americans. It's a bit of an abdication of legislative responsibility in that by requiring everyone to have insurance you hand this big chunk of power over to insurance companies and their rules effectively have the same impact as a regulation to anyone who drives, but without the democratic protections we normally have when we pass a law and put it into regulation.

For example, if we wanted to pass a law saying that your drivers license costs $100 a year if you agree to this monitor on your car that will track everywhere you've driven and at what speed and $500 a year if you refuse to be monitored, most legislators would balk at that because the people who elected them would think that was owellian and against much of what the U.S. stands for. But they do require you have insurance and insurance companies are now doing exactly that, charging people who don't submit to monitoring more (although they couch it as a "discount" to those who submit to it....same thing). So it has the same impact of legislation, without the democracy behind legislation.

Again I'm not anti-business by any stretch of the imagination (I run one!) and I completely understand how insurance works and believe it's a thing of value. I can just see how someone could think it undemocratic once a class of insurance is mandated and then the insurance industry get's to force behavior that democratic societies normally see as exclusively the jurisdiction of laws passed by democratically elected representatives.

 

[Buy1Sell2]

Automobile Insurance is to protect other people from you. Health Insurance is to protect yourself. The reason that health insurance premiums are higher than automobile insurance is because there are numerous claims on health insurance and typically few, if any on automobile insurance.