Corona Virus #4

[Diggin It]

Overweight people better look out they could end up getting taxed by the pound...

ALL vehicles must stop at Weigh Stations, not just trucks?

 

[ovrszd]

The simple solution to making people live healthier and cut down on unhealthy habits...is to hit them in the pocket book...look at the trends in consumer spending...the cost of cable/sat TV has impelled millions to cut the cable etc...

Overweight people better look out they could end up getting taxed by the pound...

Yep. Some businesses and industries are already trying that approach by rewarding those with healthy habits in cheaper insurance rates.

If we use healthy standards and measures and put overweight people on the banned assistance list we'll eliminate a gigantic portion of society!!!

 

[Hay Dude]

The simple solution to making people live healthier and cut down on unhealthy habits...is to hit them in the pocket book...look at the trends in consumer spending...the cost of cable/sat TV has impelled millions to cut the cable etc...

Overweight people better look out they could end up getting taxed by the pound...

Agree with first part. The insurance business has been doing risk assessments on smokers and obesity for a while now. They pay higher premiums. They are in affect being "taxed" for their unhealthy lifestyles.
I believe it should go a step further and make smoking illegal.
The big tobacco lobbyists and their grip on some of our government leaders would of course oppose and put tremendous amounts of money on the line to block any such attempt.

 

[/pine]

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...

 

[Hay Dude]

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...

It would be a step in the right direction for sure, since lobbyists and a decent amount of voters would ensure outright banning is not likely

 

[TnAndy]

I must be old because we do it all the time. I'm the guy with the Sauerkraut thread but we preserve lots of foodstuffs, including meat and not by freezing it all either. Our root cellar is still pretty full of potatoes, onions, carrots, meat in crocks, canned sauerkraut, canned beets, canned tomatoes and spaghetti sauce (wife makes a killer sauce), canned pickles, sweet and dill. We layer carrots in hampers full of sand, they last at least a year that way. We have dried apples and fresh but frozen apple cider in the freezer along with frozen chickens, Elk, deer and bear plus frozen vegetables too.

Only thing we really need is TP......

If push came to shove, I could always kill a steer and butcher that. I cut my own meat anyway. We have well water so no city water to worry about and a back up diesel gen set for electricity if needed.... and yes, we have oil lamps and they are full too. One never knows out here in rural American what you will need to survive.

Sure am glad I'm not an urban rat.

I understand.....
We kill and process our own beef and pork here at home. Here 3 hogs hanging in our homemade walk-in cooler one year.

One of our pantries:

Root cellar:

 

[ovrszd]

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...

At the Drs Office, Hospital, Prescription Drug Counter, etc.??

 

[Big Barn]

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...

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??

 

[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.

 

[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.