Corona Virus #4

[ovrszd]

you had me on everything but guns :laughing:

There's a lot more pending legislation now to take your guns than your cigarettes.

 

[ovrszd]

Off topic but I always maintained that airline fare should be based and charged only on gross weight of passenger and their luggage. What could be fairer than that??

Truth.

When I was flying back and forth between Iraq and Afghanistan I had to be weighed with all my gear!!!! Don't recall any penalty, probably more to get an accurate load tally for the Cargo Planes we were loaded into.

 

[hawkeye08]

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[Steppenwolfe]

Not implying anyone would be banned etc...just overweight people should just have to pay more than someone not overweight...likewise with smokers, drinkers etc...

Yes...

 

[oosik]

Can you imagine how much a person who is 25# overweight, smokes, drinks & bets on the ponies would have to pay for an airplane ticket.

Example - Arnold Swartzenegger - for his height he is overweight, he smokes cigars, he has an occasional beer, ponies-?? - - - thank God he has his own jet.

 

[ovrszd]

Can you imagine how much a person who is 25# overweight, smokes, drinks & bets on the ponies would have to pay for an airplane ticket.

Example - Arnold Swartzenegger - for his height he is overweight, he smokes cigars, he has an occasional beer, ponies-?? - - - thank God he has his own jet.

We are talking about what you pay for medical services. Or I think that's what we are talking about. The cost of a plane ticket is a sidetrack.

 

[Citydude]

Man up... You can do it.

 

[Hay Dude]

There's a lot more pending legislation now to take your guns than your cigarettes.

Im not a smoker/vaper, but I am a gun owner and a voter.
Although what you say is true from a political standpoint, from a societal standpoint, smoking has really been put under a lot of pressure. Theres fewer and fewer places for smokers and its no longer a cool or acceptable habit in most cases. I remember being younger and subjected to a lot of second hand smoke. Also remember walking on cigarette butts discarded all over sidewalks and floors in stadiums and train stations. That is rarely the case now as the dangers of the habit and few effective treatments for the suffering caused by it are helping the number to shrink. IOW, more people are slowly pulling their heads out of their arses.
I think I read that smoking is down from about 35% in the 60's to about 17% now????
A big improvement, but still a long way to go. And now vaping is on the rise.....

 

[ultrarunner]

I find that the fastest way to learn a lot about a person, system, or society, is to put it under stress.

As Jocko Willink put it (as a balanced, in-context comment during a JRE interview), one difference with modern military conflicts is that civilians back home could ".... still drive to the mall in a big air-conditioned SUV, and buy whatever they want".

As opposed to the Greatest Generation, we are now mostly comprised of people who have never dealt with material shortages in N. America.

My mother was a child during WWII, but old enough to understand what was going on. Talking with her and other people who lived at that time, and reading general accounts of the era, there was much more a sense of We Are All in This Together.

I know enough about people and history to realize that feeling wasn't absolute, and that profiteering has gone on in every war since the dawn of time....... but this era definitely does not have the same level of social cohesion as then.

I hope the CRA (our IRS) keeps track of these people, and hits them hard....

B.C. couple confronted at Costco for buying bulk Lysol wipes to re-sell for profit | CBC Radio

Rgds, D.

True... but Costco was originally set up to supply business....

A business license was a requirement for membership and then membership was extending employees and government employees.

We buy all the Hospital Toilet Paper from Costco and have for decades... recently, it has been back ordered... I have made TP runs to the local Supermarket to have it for the Hospital.

I know all the business models revolve on just in time inventory which works great until there is a problem especially when items are sourced world wide.

As was previously posted... Grainger Industrial supply said the volume of mask orders in the last few days has exceeded the volume of masks sold in 4 years!

Elective surgery is being cancelled and in part to conserve hospital space and supplies...

 

[oosik]

Ah - post #290, #292. But, I agree, it is off topic.