I thought that was your implication above about a bullet to the head being your retirement

Then why aren’t you saving for retirement?

But do you have an in-demand skill?

Im a big fan of masks and staying home when sick. Always have been. My whole life. Covid included.

You’re way off base here.

The person suggested that everyone should be staying home and I was genuinely curious how they thought the world would run if no one worked.

You’ve got me labeled and nothing I can say will help you hear my position and discuss in good faith so this can just stop now.

The WHO and IOC have rules. Athletes aren’t breaking the rules.

Dont mistake my realism with lack of compassion.

I don’t feel that we need an ideology middle ground. But I do feel that my having individual positions on individual policies leaves me siding with different preformed “teams” quite often.

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Im being very genuine. Thanks for your time.

I’m not trolling. I’m just confused it seems. I feel like I walked into the twilight zone.

Are you suggesting that everyone needs to be staying home and not working? If everyone doesn’t go to work, how will people survive (food, water, climate control)?

If racism or sexism is normal or accepted where you are, we are truly in different worlds.

That aside, look, it’s clear that your walkway in life is vastly different than mine right now and I feel that disputing each others norms is fruitless and impossible.

I appreciate your perspective.

I lost an uncle and a grandmother to COVID. My heart goes out to all those with loved ones dying from this and all causes.

I’m fine with some rules about basic hygiene and common sense. The ioc doesn’t have those. Why? I’m not some wild antivaxxer out here spouting shit. I’m in here defending this Olympian who did nothing wrong in my opinion.

And as I understand it, yall will just call me names like fascist and plague rat and told to fuck off - Because I simply feel even the slightest differently and have chosen to question this Olympian being under fire.

If it is ridiculous, why is most of the world behaving that way? I’m genuinely confused on the night and day difference between this thread and the world around me.

And others say we’ll end up with normal and woke.

I’m not on a team and feel like we will indeed end up with just 2 things and it’ll be both extremes. And most people will be stuck in the middle wondering why we have teams.

What are you trying to teach that makes you think I’m incapable of learning? I’m just sitting here providing info on IOC rules.

I never said a majority of stocks are financial. I’m crypto they are tho but that’s kinda obvious given that we are bootstrapping a new financial system.

The internet changed a ton of things!!! Individual investors have so many tools to research now compared to 30 years ago! It’s much easier to get due diligence on investments and confer with others.

Accounting figures are obviously FAR superior with crypto native companies since everything is verifiable.

cryptocurrencies haven’t changed the process for gaining the investment necessary to start a new bakery or other small business and never will provide a pathway to do so

I adamantly disagree with that last part. This is precisely where crypto shines when done right it allows everyone an equal footing on raising and investing in capital projects. Note I’m not saying that it removes risk - it removes friction - admittedly at the cost of risk.

The reason you don’t see this taking off is 100% because of regulations, hoops, lawyers, and capital required to register a security. If I want to tokenize a business plan in the USA, I cannot easily do that without getting wrecked by the SEC.

The elitists can and will continue to do private equity and insider trading to maintain a lead because they have the capital to do so. I can’t speak to how they all feel about crypto. I would assume they would love it too. Free markets are far cheaper than the crap they go through now to do fund raising and such.

It’ll be interesting to see how this goes in the coming 30 years. It definitely benefits countries without a strong financial system already in place way more. Will it outperform the legacy, cumbersome financial system? Time will tell!

I’m pointing out what the rules are/were at the Olympics, and some background on why athletes are not in “trouble” for not mentioning they have an illness. The World Health Organization worked with the ioc to make rules they felt was safe. Was it capitalism driven to make money, or is it simply because it makes no sense to live in bubble wrap forever, I don’t know!

I guess I see it as much of a danger as anything else in life at this point, and it feels as if most people agree.

I’m not denying it exists. It just scientifically seems to be less significant than most other things. I think it is 1.5% of deaths now per some quick CDC research. That’s way less than an average flu season. What’s the stats on long COVID? Is that happening to a significantly relevant amount of people? Genuinely curious. Not baiting or anything.

I don’t “live in a bubble”. I’m just an average dude. I travel a lot half the year in USA and EU and chill in remote areas all winter. I understand my experience isn’t everyone’s and I value your insight.

I looked a bit more into it. The WHO has worked closely with the IOC and IOC President says “It is being treated like flu now, so there is no obligation for any special measures or notifications.”.

So Noah did nothing wrong to not report it. There is no reporting rule.

Also found this info:

COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency according to the WHO, and with much higher vaccination levels now than during the previous two Olympics, it is treated like any other respiratory illness. There has been a surge of COVID-19 globally this summer, but because of vaccination and prior infection, most cases are mild unless people are over 65 or have underlying conditions.

This all reflects my reality where I haven’t heard about or been affected by COVID for years now.

I’m just referring to the experts on this science. I’m not making shit up or reading trash conservative anti science bullshit. I’m genuinely curious about why others feel so strongly against the current WHO position.

I’m sorry you feel that way and lack the ability to disagree and discuss amicably.

Oh I understand you feel that way, and that’s fine. But there are rules at the Olympics and these are the rules.

Not everyone feels that is so clearly ridiculous. As I said, most places on earth treat it as the common cold nowadays.

It already exists. Conservapedia