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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 29, 2020 11:11:33 GMT -5
Nearly fifty years on and very little has really changed.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 29, 2020 12:46:55 GMT -5
I was in the bank the other day and it really did feel a little bizarre to have a face mask on in there. Mine was a white basic surgical type but a black one would really feel wrong, reminds me of some of those window smasher types in some past 'protests' like WTO in Seattle. I see those on tv so somewhere must be making them but they are very rare around here, or anything other than various white or faintly pale blue types. I'm of the two wrongs don't make a right school but I can see when people have been pushed beyond breaking and have just given up. Excessive force applied to that probably just reinforces this.
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Post by brutalis on May 29, 2020 13:46:31 GMT -5
Begs the question: what respiratory/medical facial masks are you CCF'rs wearing? Work won't allow me wearing my Darth Vader or Spider-man or Batman full face masks. Since it seems long term around the hospital and I don't do patient care, I can wear any kind of cloth facial as long as it isn't too wild/improper. Received just this week 2 that I ordered from Amazon about 4 weeks ago. First one arrived was a mask with the Byrne 70's montage of characters with full body Spidey front and center. Second one is Scooby Doo with all the team in full figure in front of the Mystery Machine. Awaiting a Third masks arrival which is another Scooby Doo one which is a blue/grey with circles covering it and all the circles contain different Scooby faces. I mean if we need to protect ourselves and wear one, why not do it in style while promoting my nerdiness proudly!
Be safe, wear a mask! There I said it!
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2020 17:12:26 GMT -5
I have a 2 Batman, 2 Joker and a TMNT bandana rotation going on for work.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 29, 2020 23:48:16 GMT -5
I have a company-branded cloth mask (well, one for each day) at work, since we exist to be walking billboards for billion dollar companies. Around town I have bandannas in rotation.
When it comes to banks, the thieves were always back in the office, wearing suits.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 30, 2020 5:54:02 GMT -5
It should be universal law for people age 18 and up, if their body is capable of, to exercise at least 45 minutes every single day. I do wonder if in 100 years society will be so far up it's own ass with people basking in their own vanity via social media platforms like Instagram that will all collectively feel the need to be in better shape in fear of being looked down by society. Maybe we will all have a social credit system in place by that time, and your status may become in jeopardy if your fitness level starts to dip. I know it sounds like a dystopian Black Mirror episode, but if everyone was collectively in better shape/made better food choices wouldn't things be better?
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 30, 2020 7:20:42 GMT -5
It should be universal law for people age 18 and up, if their body is capable of, to exercise at least 45 minutes every single day. I do wonder if in 100 years society will be so far up it's own ass with people basking in their own vanity via social media platforms like Instagram that will all collectively feel the need to be in better shape in fear of being looked down by society. Maybe we will all have a social credit system in place by that time, and your status may become in jeopardy if your fitness level starts to dip. I know it sounds like a dystopian Black Mirror episode, but if everyone was collectively in better shape/made better food choices wouldn't things be better? It does sound like a dystopian Black Mirror episode! Not that it wouldn't be good for everyone to exercise daily... but if it's made mandatory, where do we stop? Being fit is good, but so is being politically literate, being involved in the community, being fiscally aware, knowing how to fight, spending time with one's elderly parents, learning a new language, knowing how to debate, playing the violin and so on... Where do we draw the line? Even a well-meaning totalitarian state can't force people to devote half an hour to all such endeavours daily, because we wouldn't have time to do anything else. I shudder to think of a world where I would be forced to attend sensitivity classes!!!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 30, 2020 7:22:00 GMT -5
For sure if people did exercise and ate better, less people would have contracted the corona virus.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 30, 2020 8:55:13 GMT -5
For sure if people did exercise and ate better, less people would have contracted the corona virus. Unlike all other diseases.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 30, 2020 9:55:08 GMT -5
I’d like a government, and not just an occasional First Lady, that promotes, subsidies, distributes and educates it’s citizens on good food choices. We are literally what we eat. And better health starts with better food choices, and yes exercise too.
But America’s epidemic of obesity and diabetes start with the ease of bad food choices that all around them. An economy that supports them and a government that promotes them to line their pockets.
It’s depressing and sad to see people that have gotten so big they’re using a motorized cart to move around the store. And one glance in their basket and their making the same food choices. It’s like a smoker trying to get that last drag before the paramedics put him on the stretcher. Or an alcoholic homeless on the street begging for money.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 30, 2020 12:44:38 GMT -5
It should be universal law for people age 18 and up, if their body is capable of, to exercise at least 45 minutes every single day. I do wonder if in 100 years society will be so far up it's own ass with people basking in their own vanity via social media platforms like Instagram that will all collectively feel the need to be in better shape in fear of being looked down by society. Maybe we will all have a social credit system in place by that time, and your status may become in jeopardy if your fitness level starts to dip. I know it sounds like a dystopian Black Mirror episode, but if everyone was collectively in better shape/made better food choices wouldn't things be better? It does sound like a dystopian Black Mirror episode! Not that it wouldn't be good for everyone to exercise daily... but if it's made mandatory, where do we stop? Being fit is good, but so is being politically literate, being involved in the community, being fiscally aware, knowing how to fight, spending time with one's elderly parents, learning a new language, knowing how to debate, playing the violin and so on... Where do we draw the line? Even a well-meaning totalitarian state can't force people to devote half an hour to all such endeavours daily, because we wouldn't have time to do anything else. I shudder to think of a world where I would be forced to attend sensitivity classes!!! In this universe we stop at just 45 minutes of exercise a day. Now, you don't have to do it, but then you'd face punishment in the form of an annual fine. Or maybe no one gets fined, but if you meet the required annual 45 minutes a day (with let's say a month worth of days missed because life gets in the way) then you'd be eligible for extensive tax breaks or whatever. Every other activity you can do or not do. But yeah, when I'm king of the world this will be universal law.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 13:37:53 GMT -5
It should be universal law for people age 18 and up, if their body is capable of, to exercise at least 45 minutes every single day. I do wonder if in 100 years society will be so far up it's own ass with people basking in their own vanity via social media platforms like Instagram that will all collectively feel the need to be in better shape in fear of being looked down by society. Maybe we will all have a social credit system in place by that time, and your status may become in jeopardy if your fitness level starts to dip. I know it sounds like a dystopian Black Mirror episode, but if everyone was collectively in better shape/made better food choices wouldn't things be better? Government edicts and laws don't change behavior. They just create criminals. How many simple, common sense laws are on the books that get ignored/broken every day? People won't change just because some institution tells them they have to. All it will do is create an expensive need for monitoring and enforcement, the creation of agencies to try to enforce it, and a sister campaign to the wars on poverty and drugs that have had so much success achieving the desired effects because once the government said it, people just simply stopped being poor and doing drugs, right? Lasting change is not implemented from the top down. It has to grow from the bottom up. The only time governmental changes like that find any traction is when they are reinforcing popular movements already in motion, not trying to impose unwanted change. -M
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Post by beccabear67 on May 30, 2020 13:59:16 GMT -5
I look really healthy, I have trouble being taken seriously by a new doctor sometimes until they check out my paperwork. I struggled with keeping weight on for a couple decades. That was the one thing they would focus on, that I might be an anorexic or bulimic, especially after Karen Carpenter. The first time I ever gained any extra weight was living in the U.S. and relying on convenience processed stuff more than normal, so much stuff seemed to have corn syrup added or brominated vegetable oil... and I was an honour student in home economics class which included a test of the Canada food guide. We had to learn about food groups and percentages of each that were recommended. If government were to do anything it should be regulation with actual enforcement of what can be added to or sold as food. I think ours just made snack products meet a lower level of added salt and sugar to things, the U.S. version seemed to be some states taxing such items? You can be heavy naturally and be totally healthy however. Often it's the dieting trying to fit something the person actually can't that causes heart damage. I think besides drug use it was extreme diets that made Cass Elliot's heart weak (the ham sandwich story was always total bull, one reporter saw an untouched ham sandwich in the flat she died at not knowing the liquid narcotic much closer to the site of death). She died officially of a heart attack and they even circulated photos of her heart from the autopsy to try to promote weight loss.
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 31, 2020 3:09:36 GMT -5
It should be universal law for people age 18 and up, if their body is capable of, to exercise at least 45 minutes every single day. I do wonder if in 100 years society will be so far up it's own ass with people basking in their own vanity via social media platforms like Instagram that will all collectively feel the need to be in better shape in fear of being looked down by society. Maybe we will all have a social credit system in place by that time, and your status may become in jeopardy if your fitness level starts to dip. I know it sounds like a dystopian Black Mirror episode, but if everyone was collectively in better shape/made better food choices wouldn't things be better? Government edicts and laws don't change behavior. They just create criminals. How many simple, common sense laws are on the books that get ignored/broken every day? People won't change just because some institution tells them they have to. All it will do is create an expensive need for monitoring and enforcement, the creation of agencies to try to enforce it, and a sister campaign to the wars on poverty and drugs that have had so much success achieving the desired effects because once the government said it, people just simply stopped being poor and doing drugs, right? Lasting change is not implemented from the top down. It has to grow from the bottom up. The only time governmental changes like that find any traction is when they are reinforcing popular movements already in motion, not trying to impose unwanted change. -M I think I'd take my chances with creating those agencies to monitor people's health compared to what we have now, which is like 80% of people in bad nutritional condition. Something has to be done. In this fantasy of mine it would be like 100 years from now with the technology to actually monitor people's health in a manner that is seamless. Maybe devices on your watch, in your car, or in your household to analyze your month to month body health. To see problems coming before they arise. That's an invasion of privacy, yeah. But the current situation of leaving people to their own devices with the freedom of modern day convenience obviously isn't the solution to better health globally. Something needs to be done. Like I said it could be done in a way where you don't have to enforce it for punishment, but if you do meet the established national recommended health outlines annually, you could get some type of bonus to your credit or whatever. A reward for being healthy in addition to the reward to being healthy in itself. Also, if something like this were to birth opposition agencies that are against governments trying to implement better health with a more strict stance, then so be it. I think that goes down the road of "body acceptance", which I don't necessarily agree with at face value, but that's another talking point.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 1, 2020 18:51:23 GMT -5
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