Using the most recent data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information on hospital bed costs (2016), Huska’s time at the Oakville hospital likely cost over $450,000 - ($3,592 per day for ICU care) with an additional 61 days in a ward bed which likely cost about $1,200 a day A liver transplant in Ontario is pegged at about $71,000 to $100,000 in Ontario based on data from 2019.

I’ve come to the realization the only ones getting us off the dark timeline is us. I’m in USA, ready and willing. Thinking through what beginning steps I can take.

In a sane world, this would apply to every government.

Okay and that happens with OTC medications, too. I have a family member who’s solution to everything is a *pill. Always taken in half or double, triple, quadruple dosages. Older and runs to the doctor for a sneeze too.

You can lead a jackass to water, but you can neither make them drink nor prevent them from drowning. Or in this instance, giving themselves hyponatremia.

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Lab synthesis had it’s own set of problems. Imo, isolation of the"active" agent being one. Slippery elm and white willow teas don’t taste good, but maybe the “inactive” ingredients work with the active ingredient in ways that are simply not studied.

The “right one” would be open access by governments. But that’s socialism, and bad for reasons ($$$$).

Freely accessible knowledge is abundant, for now. For instance, someone with overly high BP wouldn’t want to consume much ginger, for digestive issues. Or simply, “contraindications of ginger”.

I mean if you’re going to die without access, roll the dice.

Quite frankly, the contamination from pesticide and polluted air, water and dirt on everyday foods (and of course my herbs) are a bigger concern. They’re ubiquitous and unavoidable, now, thanks to big business and apathetic, time-constrained, overworked individuals. So I’m not that concerned by home remedies, although I really only trust my own. Some herbalists/root medics add turpentine to their remedies, for internal use. So I’ll stick to my own or vetted suppliers.

The schools are in shambles and books are for the monied elite. Time to donate to your favorite archive site. A buck here, five there can make a difference.

You’re welcome.

White willow bark and devil’s claw root contain naturally occurring salicylic acid, similar to aspirin. Better, but it tastes funky.

ETA: https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/herb/slippery-elm#:~:text=Slippery elm contains mucilage%2C a,throat%2C stomach%2C and intestines.

Nothing wrong with homemade medicine. Just know what you’re doing. I’ve used many, on myself and now adult child. Grandparents on both sides taught me. Their’s taught them. I’ve used comfrey to heal deep wounds on friendly strays.

Four Thieves vinegar was supposedly used by four grave robbers to protect them from bubonic plague, each thief added their own herb to the infusion. It apparently worked well enough, they negotiated their freedom by giving up the recipe.

Nowadays, people vary the herbs, garlic is the constant.

It’s no secret herbs like oregano (most savory herbs actually) have antimicrobial properties. When you’re poor and a doctor’s visit is a day or more lost pay, the daycare is paid regardless of attendance, then the uninsured cost of the visit and pharmaceuticals, you learn.

Was thinking that may be why it’s taking so long. It’s akin to knowing you have to train your human replacement before you’re fired. You can’t possibly teach a program or human everything you know in a limited time; and a great many don’t want to do.

I wonder if this is the same Sabo that was a a fed who infiltrated certain politically active hacker groups?

Casting illusions works on some people, usually those with defeatist or “not worth the trouble” mindset?

Yes, I literally laughed aloud. The sheer arrogance in certainty projected is a dead giveaway.

I don’t really know what life looks like in Vietnam, but I’d like very much to know the workings, of government to the regular people.

Damn. LL, I’ve not spoken with you in a really long time. Where are you? I hope you’re safe and well.

That’s on you

In some ways, loss leading can be done in more or less ethical ways. For instance, a small mom n pop hardware loss leading on lumbar or hammers and taking a reasonable profit on ten penny nails. Or something, maybe a better example is the Costco 1.50 all beef foot-long dog and soda but their memberships are reasonable profit for those who would go often enough and buy enough to make it worth it. It’s late and I’m tired, I hope you get the general gist. But yes, doordash is just double-dipping on the sleazy. And maybe loss leading isn’t ever acceptable, but I’m simply unaware/haven’t thought of reasons that make it so. I’m willing to hear any argument against any of it, though.

That’s your takeaway? It’s like Walmart moving into a town and undercutting indie business prices until the indie businesses close, then raising prices.

What doordash is doing is scraping restaurants’ websites for prices, taking a temporary loss, then going to the restaurants saying, “We got all these orders, it’s a win for both of us!” to sell the contact, then raising prices and tacking on extra fees, making money off the restaurants and the customers

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/27/doordash-pricing/

It would be easier to pass by 'what had been argued as" qualifier in front of “justified.” I’d also add something about people who discriminate against different socioeconomic groups as being uncultured, while gatekeeping culture.