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But also, with 8 billion people, there should be a system in place for people to stay home when they get sick without losing their job, housing, or food security.
You should be able to go to the hospital whenever you need to, get as much medical care as you need, leave when you want, and still have employment waiting for you when you leave. And if there aren't enough doctors or nurses, then you should train more.
But that's not on the voting menu. So we did fail that test. The ongoing test is thus: For decades, the American people have wanted more affordable housing, healthcare, and education. Every year we vote for this, and every year the politicians we vote for fail to implement the policies we want. How many years of voting and not getting what we want will be required for people to recognize that voting is never going to result in changes we seek?
When you engage in the "Democratic" process, and you never get a single thing you ask for, what you're doing is participating in a ritual of supporting the internet endless cycle of samsara. Which I don't really oppose, but what we're told is that there are other planets in which people have some past-life memories, so even if they have technology to be immortal, they choose to die and reincarnate, because they enjoy being able to be children, and they enjoy having children.
Morpheus offered Neo a blue pill or a red pill, and the eventual result of taking the red pill was Neo taking thousands of blue pills. Why did Morpheus even offer a blue pill to begin with? Why couldn't Neo have abstained from taking any of the pills?
I got Covid right after getting my second vaccine, spread it because I had a job that didn't offer healthcare and didn't offer you as much time off as you need, now I have lumps in my lips where I had oral herpes.