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  • Yeah, but at that point it’s not your time. You’re essentially selling your life to someone else… and they’re not even using it.

    You say you can spend your time writing poetry or reading books… but that doesn’t scratch an itch for everyone. Being stuck to a desk or other work station means your options are extremely limited. You can’t go out and work on your kit-car, or practice a golf swing, or practice monologues for a one person play… or many other things that require a little more activity than being stuck in a chair for nine hours allows.

    Money can get you a lot of things in life… but as yet it can not give you time back in your life.







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    8 months ago

    It’s not all of medical science, no. We know a great deal. But that only pertains to general study, and not specific cases. We don’t know shit about someone, medically, until we do tests. Even then, we can’t do an in-depth dissection of them (because that would be wildly inhumane) so we can mostly only go off surface level information. Even for more in-depth information, say with x-rays and MRIs or blood tests, it still only general knowledge. Each person is unique, and has unique characteristics. So we need to take what information we have and try and match it to previous cases to determine what it could be.

    Sometimes it’s really easy. “You have a cold, go drink some water and get some rest”. Sometimes it’s not, they have some obscure neurological disorder that only affects .0000001% of the population (at a guess).


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    8 months ago

    99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

    Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread based on similar viruses. Until they had more verifiable ways it was a quick and cheap answer to a complex problem. Sometimes those are necessary, especially when millions of lives are on the line.