Full circle

What if, instead of having private health insurance, we pool all those premiums into one big community fund and whenever anyone needs medical treatments, it is paid using this pool of money?
🤔
Oh wait...
- The amazing thing is that the more participants you get paying into a single system, the less the cost for each is while covering everyone for anything. And yet some people are against this idea, who aren't even the ones getting rich from the current system.
  
  They don't want the 'wrong' people to benefit.
- Almost like if there was was one giant super doctor company that was required by law to provide medical treatment for everyone and it could leverage economies scale and its market power to negotiate better prices and wellness outcomes.
  
  Hey, hey, hey. That sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.
  
  That's why we need a public option so bad... it just makes everyone else play fairer

That's the joke.
- Jack Posobic is a right wing grifter. He isn't joking.
  
  Well, he is. He just knows the suckers aren't in on it.
  
  Yeah but he hasn't got the Armenian flag in his username which makes me think he has at least four brain cells, so it's possibly a joke.
- Poe's law, etc.

I cannot decide if the right are really that stupid or if this is just satire.
- it's clearly satire, real antivaxxers aren't smart enough to understand what that guy's saying
- I say both. :) They can be this stupid but this is probably satire.
- It(or similar event) was real thing.
- Jack Posobiec is a weird nazi guy

well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.
then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let's call it "inoculation" for now - for school attendance.
- Yeah, maybe we could suggest they even use "dead" versions of the viruses so they don't have to actually put a live virus inside of them, and their body will learn what the virus looks like and not have to deal with it replicating.
  Then once they like that idea we can suggest we attach a protein to something so their immune system can recognize it as not naturally occuring and mark it down as destroy that shit if I ever see it again even without the protein.

Ate the onion?
It’s hard to tell sometimes…
- Jack Posobic is a right wing douche nozzle. Dude's either serious as a heart attack or knows how dumb the people he peddles this shit to are and this is him screaming into the ether.
- Satire is dead.

The guy must be full of sarcasm.

Yeah bro just snort some ground up small pox pustules like our ancestors did.

The oral polio vaccine actually did that. It used an attenuated virus that didn't just confer immunity on the recipient; the mild infection from that weakened virus was (somewhat) transmissible to the community at large. Everyone who was directly vaccinated via OPV had a small but significant chance of infecting and thus immunizing the people around them.
Of course, there was also the problem that the attenuated vaccine occasionally mutated, and about 25 years ago, we got to the point that the vaccine was actually causing more cases of paralytic poliomyelitis than the almost entirely eradicated wild variants...
- The same thing that always happens will happen: I can’t take it! It makes me sick!
  (For a day).
  The resilience and lack of capacity for any discomfort at all is mind boggling. A fever for 1 day probably won’t kill you, will protect your family, and save you A LOT of money in medical bills and work loss (paycheck loss) going forward.
  I’ve done 2 things post COVID booster, and post H1N1 which was live attenuated in the nose: stayed home and played a computer game, or, took Tylenol and gone about my day.
  It amazes me that society continues to function given people the number of people who can’t handle minor life discomforts without complete personal implosion. Granted, the grace with which COVID masking for 10-20min at a time was handled by the masses is a marker of that.
  
  I had a bad reaction to the covid vaccines (the second shot of Pfizer, first was fine) and as a result havent had a single booster.
  I got heart palpitations and my heart randomly races and I get lightheaded and dizzy. Ever since the vaccine. Didn’t get covid till 2022.
  Both grandfathers died of heart attacks, father died of heart failure. I’m not fucking around with further covid vaccines when I can just get a milder form of covid from the wild.
  For the record, other than the chickenpox vaccine (couldn’t prove my mother had it or chickenpox so it was too risky to her for me to get) I’m fully vaccinated. I don’t bother with the flu shot, everyone I know who’s gotten it gets the fucking flu from it and is down for the count for a solid week.
- Small pox too. Milk maids were exposed to cow pox as part of the job and as a result were immune to small pox.
  
  True, but then we developed the smallpox inoculation, which had roughly a 70-30 chance of killing you outright.

This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who don’t know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.

LMAO

That's how I fought off covid the 3 times it jumped me. And no I am not antivax just never managed to make time for it and since it was broadcast as not stopping the infection I didn't feel the urgency. Worst covid did was a medium flu like setup so just rode it out
- You fought off covid by being exposed to a weakened form of it? Did you get the Novavax shot? Or has the brain fog persisted and you're just a little bit confused
  
  I got no shot, no antibiotics, nor any palliative attention from anyone. Just hunkered down at home and kept hydrated.

This is why I see the political spectrum as just a circle .... there is no far right or far left
There is a center at the top and if you move to the right or left, you end up at the left side of the circle or right side of the circle ..... if you politics go any further, the start traveling inward and meet at the bottom .... the far right is no different than the far left.
So our job is to have this never ending circus balancing act of standing on this circle .... it is constant work to keep it all balanced because if we drift to one end, we are liable to drift too far and end up at the bottom.
- What you're describing sounds a lot like the Horseshoe Theory.
  In a nutshell, the far extremes of "left" and "right" are more similar to each other than the center, i.e. the ends of the horseshoe actually terminate at "authoritarian" and which way you go to ultimately get there winds up not mattering much in the end.
- This sounds like complete nonsense.
- Bro what
- Far left: we want healthcare and fair wages
  Far right: we want to genocide anyone who doesn’t like our version of fundamentalist “Christianity”
  Yeah ok bud totally the fucking same
  
  Modern far left: we think other people should be treated with respect, dignity, and have inalienable human rights to things like food and education. Modern far right: Chattel slavery was great and so was the Trail of Tears.
  I can't see any differences between these two.