Totally agreed, that the system decides that some people receive health care and some don’t, but we don’t decide these things, someone else does. Decisions are made for people, often by those that have the ear of the politicians, the wealthy and corporations. That we are in this situation was not something that I, nor the majority of the population, chose, be it our medical system nor the response to the virus.
Honest, I’m lucky enough to be well-paid and married, and that in many ways allows me to choose to opt out of things that many others have to live with. For them, it isn’t a choice. As for our culture, we could make other choices that could minimize such travesties, but we don’t, and again, it isn’t a choice we make, but one that was made for us, by the laws and culture we are born into.
Businesses and economists like to portray us as workers who produce goods and services and more importantly as consumers. I was not born to simply work and consume, but to live.
So I pose this rhetorical question. Do people serve the economy or does the economy serve people?
@Terry4 You work so you earn enough to have fun along the way. The nice added touch is you enjoy your work. But in the scheme of things we are workers that produce goods and services while we are helping ourselves to live.
I only have one thought concerning the COVID-19. Why isn’t the vaccine for the Seasonal FlU MANATORY??? Just about every other vaccine for other disease is.
I would disagree, if only because it is true if you only examine the box that we live in. Other boxes prioritize human welfare and quality of life over work, and are much happier for it,
I’ve spent a lot of time doing statistical cross-country comparisons, and it is obvious our cultural sense isn’t shared internationally, and we suffer for what we collectively believe, although I do not think it is changeable, at least in the terms I think of it, i.e., Hofstede’s dimension, human welfare, OECD comparisons, PISA, gender equality, work hours, health, human rights, etc. To be clear, it is not my profession…
Most outbreaks of fire don’t engulf whole neighborhoods. Probably we could let a lot of them just burn out on their own, and it wouldn’t matter to anyone except the unfortunate immediate victims. Probably save a lot of money that way. But every once in a while the nextdoor house and the one next to that catch flame, and pretty soon you have a conflagration that is threatening the whole block, exceeding the capacity of the local fire department and pretty soon whole swaths of your city are being burned up. So it really makes sense to try to stop them one by one at the start so you don’t have to find out whether they’re the kind that devastate whole populations. There are many examples of that in history before we learned the lesson.
This is interesting. Cel phones from a small beach in Florida during spring break and where they went after. Shows you how important social distancing is.
