Atilis Gym Bellmawr was stripped of their mercantile license by the state.
In other NJ news, the state rejected ~10% of mail-in votes for protocol violations, and may compel citizens to unlock their phones despite the 5th amendment.
This may be the most amazing and yet obvious suggestions I've seen so far: 'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good. To me, it seems the problem of coronavirus defectors could be solved by moral enhancement: like receiving a vaccine to beef up your immune system, people could take a substance to boost their cooperative, pro-social behavior. Could a psychoactive pill be the solution to the pandemic?Even if these factors were achievable, they still require the very cooperative behavior that’s in short supply. The scale of the pandemic is simply too great for any of this to be possible. It seems that the U.S. is not currently equipped to cooperatively lower the risk confronting us. Many are instead pinning their hopes on the rapid development and distribution of an enhancement to the immune system – a vaccine.
But I believe society may be better off, both in the short term as well as the long, by boosting not the body’s ability to fight off disease but the brain’s ability to cooperate with others. What if researchers developed and delivered a moral enhancer rather than an immunity enhancer?A "bioethicist" cannot understand the scale of this bullshit "pandemic." Once again: This is not about a disease. It is about control.Another challenge is that the defectors who need moral enhancement are also the least likely to sign up for it. As some have argued, a solution would be to make moral enhancement compulsory or administer it secretly, perhaps via the water supply. These actions require weighing other values. Does the good of covertly dosing the public with a drug that would change people’s behavior outweigh individuals’ autonomy to choose whether to participate? Does the good associated with wearing a mask outweigh an individual’s autonomy to not wear one?
Cool story bro.
I grew up working class in Britain, did pretty well for myself during my mid 20s to mid 30s and have lived in the US for the last 3 and a half years, so I can do a first hand comparison of the US and UK health care systems.
The British system is cheaper because it's not as good as the US one. Wait ages to have someone decide whether it's a good use of resources to give you a treatment, or whether they should just send you home to get sicker and pat themself on the back for being thrifty. Then if you are doing well enough to have private healthcare it ends up being a lot more expensive then in the US, and often only available in major metropolitan areas.
When I was poor I had teeth go bad because the NHS dentist could only claim for so many fillings and knew he'd run out before the end of the month, so wanted to save them for people in worse health than me who couldn't cope as well with dental pain. I knew people who were denied therapy for depression just because they were male and some studies suggested it was a more cost effective treatment for women. I knew someone who was denied heart surgery because he was 55 and he was likely to live 5-10 years without it, so it wasn't a good use of resources.
Then when I had money there were no private general practitioners within 200 miles of where I lived, and the NHS ones wouldn't consider referring me for the right treatment for a shoulder injury because the NHS didn't offer it. I ended up driving an 800 mile round trip to get the procedure done even when I was paying a lot of money for it.
But hey, the NHS was free - well except for the extra taxes that were used to pay for it - so maybe it was worth all the unnecessary pain.
And those of us that have been paying attention to this for the past 30 years already know this. It amazes me that socialist vermin keep trotting out the theory in the complete absence of the facts to the contrary. They do this because they are not particularly intelligent, and they assume everyone else is also not particularly intelligent. This clown is a perfect example.
This better be satire.
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