Coded Artist @coded_artist@gameliberty.club

@bonifartius @catmanmancat @snappler @sun I can't have a cute Japanese car, because exhaust pollution is calculated in relation to the car size, so the smaller car is legally more polluting, even though it produces less exhaust gases.

@bronze @meowski That, and some medication that is just incredibly expensive or unknown to most.

I found that out 1st hand.

My grandfather was suffering from cancer, and my mother, being a nurse, went researching recent literature and patents to find something that could help him.

It was $11K (USD) per box, that lasts for 6 months.
Burned through savings, as it was only partially covered by insurance, and only because my mother got a doctor at her hospital to sign off on it (another thing most of us can't do).

Gave him 5 years of good living, worth it.
99% of people couldn't have found it, let alone afford it.

@meowski Refusing all modern vaccines, is definitely the right way to go, I can't argue with that.

The industry, like most other industries, rushes products to market, so if it's not a decade old, I'm not touching it.
(Ozempic is a good example)

You're right about comorbidities, infectious diseases are more of a tipping point, not the exclusive cause.

They do however burn through nursing homes like a wild fire, which is why procedures there are very strict, and why average life expectancy is 75 to 84 throughout Europe.

Human biology didn't change that much in a few hundred years, but life expectancy rose dramatically.
And with few exceptions, it's hygiene, nutrition, heart stents, exercise, and finally isolation, that contributed to that change.
More or less in that order.

Past a certain age, we just don't have effective treatments (that don't cost an arm and a leg) to push life expectancy further.
If you're crazy rich though... you might notice that many ultra wealthy and well connected people tend to live to 100 on the regular.
They have access to procedures that we don't.

@Terry @randbot Even I know it's not called the Menorah, that's another candelabra looking thing.