“To me, there is something morbid about an excessive preoccupation with health. “
I hear ya, I have been seeing it steadily increase over the years since the early 90’s.
Every other commercial is “Take our product or you will die.. oh and talk to your doctor”
Or
“eat this or you will die” and so on .. its like we as a nation went on some kind of health kick over the last few years.
I am wondering if this whole govt run healthcare thing is not behind it.. ya know, slowly whip the sheeple into a frenzy about health, make them run to their doctors for this and that, become scared of every illness and get checkups 4 times a year.. all setting us up for Big Brother health care because once the govt controls and pays for your healthcare.. they control your life.
Not sure if how I typed it makes any sense.. but there has to be SOMETHING behind this massive decade long health kick they have been trying to put people on.
Me, I find those that see a doctor less end up less “Sick”
I have watched people get on the “doctor-mill” as I call it, take one pill for this, a second for the side effects from the first, and another for the feelings the second gives them.. next thing ya know.. the start looking and acting like they are 80 years old in their 40s.. me I smoke and feel just as good as I did in my 20s.
I've seen this too, eXe. And pretty close to home at that.
I can't tell you how sick I am of being bombarded with pharmaceutical commercials — though some of them are pretty funny in a macabre sort of way. They tick off the potential side-effects, which for certain drugs include "increased risk of stroke, or even death." Jeepers. Looks to me like the treatment could be worse than the disease....
I suspect many sheeple who are frenzied about their health are simply not reconciled to the fact of their own personal mortality. It's my sense that people of religious faith generally do not obsess as much about this matter as people of no faith. Less anxiety, better health....
The present administration is orchestrating this widespread anxiety in support of its single-payor healthcare plan. There seems no doubt about that. We are now told we have a "civil right" to healthcare. The sheeple just lap that up. What they don't realize is the single-payor system is guaranteed to lead to rationing of healthcare services, and people in the age 70 and older cohort have good reason to worry about that. The typical person wants low-cost or even "free" healthcare so they can extend their lifespans. But if the rationing board tells you, "Sorry, you're 72, so we can't approve your kidney dialysis because it would be a waste of resources [so go home and start dying]," obviously they are far less concerned than you are about extending your lifespan. To put it mildly.
It's always unwise to bargain with the devil. He seduces with pleasing words, the very words one most wants to hear — and then jams a knife in your back....
Wake up sheeple!
eXe, thank you so much for your excellent observations!