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Originally Posted by Jammer
Safe enough to say we are on opposite sides. I sure wish I was lucky enough to never get sick, and I do everything I can to stay healthy. I eat right, I take vitamins, I just had my flu shot, and I am waiting for my SWINE Flue Shot, if I ever get a chance, and I happen to have a Chronic condition. Nobody stays healthy forever at any age. If and when you get sick I hope you have like a few million $ laying around.
We all have the right to die from lack of medical care, few will argue that one.
Cheers.
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I get sick, I just don't go to the dr's for every little thing. When I get a cold, I keep going to work. The last time I had the flu, I kept going to work, except I took more precautions to prevent myself from infecting others, like wearing a surgical mask.
I haven't had a flu shot since I was still in school, I think maybe about 10 years old. I haven't had the flu but once in that time. I don't have any chronic conditions, but I don't trust most medical professionals, either.
I look at it this way: I can treat myself for most things. If I happen to need a prescription, I shake a doctor's hand, let them do their thing, and pay them for it. There has only been one time in my life that I've been sick and the doctor diagnosed it as something other than I thought, and he was actually correct. I had a sinus infection, it was the first one I'd had. I thought I had the flu, but it didn't seem right, which is why I went to the DR's to begin with.
I don't take vitamins, either. Not that I see anything wrong with it, but I feel that I'm getting everything I need from my food. If I'm not, I should be eating better foods, not supplementing with artificial products.
I also won't use synthetic treatments. If it can't be made from 100% natural ingredients, I don't take it. I don't take narcotics of any kind, including pain killers. I guess I'm kind of a hippie?
I've already accepted the fact that even though there is an unmarketable cure/treatment for cancer, I'll never be able to afford it. Even if I could, I'm sure it involves some procedure which is either unethical or unnatural, so I wouldn't want it anyway. I accept the fact that if I get sick enough, I will die.
What I don't accept is that ANY company should be required by law or any
stretch of the imagination to provide healthcare benefits to their workers. If the workers want healthcare, they can surely find their own form of it, and if they're the kind of people who feel they need to see doctors, they should have the proper financial availability to do so, whether that be insurance or cash savings.
Me, I'll stick to being me.
I honestly believe that the reason I don't get sick that often, or stay sick for very long when I finally
do get sick, is that I stay active, exactly the opposite of what most doctors recommend. Too many people are all about resting at every chance they get... resting from what? Their "hard" lives? Please!