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My mother believes that healthcare laws in the USA violate international rules that the USA must follow. She has said for decades that all doctors in the country are quacks, health insurance is a scam, and you’re better off treating medical issues yourself.

She believes doctors, nursing homes, and other care facilities are for people who don’t have living relatives. She believes that medical care is the responsibility of the living relatives, and anyone who went to college should be able to provide medical care to their relatives. She also believes any man could lift and carry any other person regardless of how much that person weighs and how old that man is. Effectively, my mother thinks it is a human rights violation to send a person with living relatives to a doctor, nursing home, or any other kind of care facility.

My mother also believes that health care and other medical insurance are one great big scam, and they might as well not exist at all. In her opinion, insurance companies have a significant incentive to reject all claims, so paying the insurance premiums is a waste of money, and insurance companies have no reason to ever pay any of your claims.

My mother believes doctors don’t know any more than anyone else. When you go to a doctor for anything, she believes you are actually volunteering to be a guinea pig for experimentation by the doctor. Therefore, she believes that if doctors actually had the knowledge to treat and heal people that other people don’t know, then doctors would never get sick or die.

Ultimately, my mother believes current laws regarding elder care are wrong. She thinks adult children should be required to provide 24/7 medical care for their elderly parents without the assistance of doctors, nursing homes, other care facilities, etc. For this to work, she believes adult children should be required to tell their employers immediately when their parents are not well, and employers should be required to fire the employee immediately to provide that 24/7 medical care.

 

 

My mother strongly believes in not flying on a plane (commercial airlines, specifically).

You know how there is a surgeon general’s warning on packages of cigarettes? My mother would like to see a warning on the airline websites and on board the plane.

My mother says it is a fact that flying on a plane is the most dangerous form of transportation, and people should dread getting on a plane so much that they should avoid going anywhere that requires flying on a plane to get there.

So, she would probably like to see a warning about how dangerous flying is and that people should pray for their lives before, during, and after every flight. When you buy your ticket, the airline should ask whether your affairs and will are in order.  Recent incidents only reinforce her belief that flying on a plane is dangerous.

As far as she is concerned, nobody should go anywhere too far by car.

Finally, she says she heard on the news that a massive airline industry labor strike in the USA is imminent, and it will effectively shut down all the airlines.

Wow! Time really goes by fast.  I had no idea it’s been three and a half years since I last made a blog post.  While someone I know believes that the pandemic still rages on and the 2020 pandemic restrictions should still be in effect, I believe most people believe the pandemic is long over.  Nobody is self-isolating, traffic on roads is back to normal, businesses are going back to working in the office, and pandemic restrictions are gone.  I don’t think people even care about getting COVID-19 anymore.

As far as I know, I made it through the pandemic without ever getting COVID-19, but it is possible it was just so mild that I had no symptoms or anything.  I’ve gotten the COVID-19 vaccine doses, including booster doses.

Onward to the main topic for this post.  Someone I know believes that federal labor laws need modernizing.

One of their suggestions involves hiring.  They believe that employers should be limited to only hiring people from within about a hundred miles from the workplace.  Their justification is that a move from a larger distance harms relationships, is too traumatizing, and is bad for people.  In addition, people should not be allowed to move out of their parent’s house until the day they get married.  This means their job should be close to their parent’s house.  Employers whose job location is too far for a daily commute from the prospective employee should not hire that person to avoid harming them by putting them too far away from their parents.

They also believe that federal jobs should be limited to one President. Every time there’s a new president, the new president should appoint new directors for all federal agencies, and all existing federal employees should be given one last year of employment to train the new employees hired by the new president’s agency directors.  So, all federal jobs would only last five or nine years, depending on whether the President got one or two terms in office.  They base this opinion on a former member of the US military who became a college professor and told the students in their classes that federal employment is meant only to be a “stepping stone” toward a job in private industry.  In other words, federal jobs should be temporary ones that give you experience in private industry jobs.  This would also let each President have only people working for them that they or their appointed heads working for them want.

They also point out that some people regularly change jobs and might work as many as a dozen jobs over their lifetime. They believe that this should be normal and that all Americans should regularly change jobs.  This is assuming that each job is at a different employer.

Finally, they believe that each person’s mother should be the most critical person in their life.  So, they believe labor laws should require employees to report to their employers whenever their mother is not doing well.  Employers would then be required to lay off the employee so that the employee becomes unemployed and has the ability to spend 24/7 taking care of their mother.  Not doing this would be an indication the children have ill will toward their mother and would rather their mother be dead.  So basically, if your mother is not well, then you should be unemployed and care for your mother 24/7 until they either get well or die, and then you get a new job.  And this would apply to all of your mother’s children.  So if your mother has five children, then that’s five adult children taking care of her 24/7.

Anyhow, that’s it for now. Hopefully, I will write another blog post soon.  At least in less than three and a half years. LOL