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I'm a bit lucky that I bought a barbell, squat rack and bench 2 years ago trying to save on gym fees.

I can't imagine what my fellow strength trainers are doing.

COVID broke up our gym group. I think it caused one of our gym Bros to relapse into obesity.

We did good, then bad, then we are good again.

The long term effects of this virus will be felt in everything but the actual virus.

Efficiency Is Everything

Efficiency Is Everything

On a similar note, I run a popular (and probably the best) personal finance website on the internet.

I use data and math to find the most optimal ways to eat, buy health insurance, etc... And everything is free.

I make trivial amounts of money by donations.

I've seen my competitors are significantly worse quality, downright Dave Ramsey Snowball effect tier bad advice. But they sell advertising space for snake oil, they sell yet another budgeting spreadsheet, books, courses, and more.

Their marketing is pretty interesting "I'm a bad girl that likes fashion, so I invest and save." Or something to give them personality. They claim to make 30k+/yr. But they don't get the traffic and I'm sure they haven't been on BBC.

I'm happy with the thank you emails I get, my day job pays well.

It's just another example of lower quality, but charging money making bigger profits.

USDA says to throw away everything after 4 hours.

Good ol government!

When you buy Apple products you promote their behavior.

I consider it similar to buying BP gas.

You gave them money after they had been doing this for a decade. You can only blame yourself.

Twitter is unusable if you want to avoid Politics. I unfriended almost everyone but all it takes is a single Like from anyone and it's Politics galore.

Medical care.

You want medicine, you need to pay someone who's part of the Physician cartel, a pharmacy, a pharmacist, and whoever has the patent.

With computers and science you often need 0 of these except the manufacturer of the drug.

The question isn't what we should have done, that's easy. What should we do now?

Just to clarify, all patients currently are accepted. There's no selection yet.

There is a difference between hands on care for 1 hour, and 1 hour being divided between 9 people (seriously, there are some clinics that do that).

Mods have deleted this question with no reasoning- Why is the "science" solution to lockdown? This is a prioritization of a minority population at the expense of an overwhelming majority.

Logic would say to prioritize (pick your numbers, I don't care) the 99.5% over the 0.5%.

My hypothesis is that since it's a healthcare issue, the leaders are less math/statistics inclined and more focused on biology.