No-Electronics Detox: Discipline Hit a Real Ceiling

March 14, 2020

I tried to limit electronics and act more disciplined, but detox only exposed how much my routines, urges, and thinking loops were tied to screens, work, and private self-soothing habits.

Hello Juan ████████

1. Seems like you're really passionate about this. I saw you liked the other comments agreeing with you as well, so, I decided it'll help if I respond.

Q1. Can you show me evidence of your claim that "the government developed over 50% of medication and unlike the private sector which is constantly removing medication off the shelves due to rush development"?

2. I'd appreciate if you share articles from reliable, known newspapers or even journals or studies. If this is true, I'll change my views because I was under the impression that the private sector via R&D develops medicines. I tried to search for this evidence because I was surprised, as I thought the private sector develops about 90% of healthcare innovation, but I couldn't find the evidence you might have. If you're not wrong, it might be a misconception that the private sector develops all or 90% of new medical innovation.

3. I also think that the pharmaceutical companies in India or elsewhere produce generic drugs. These generics can probably lower costs. However, certain medical innovations are protected by patents, which drive up the costs to acquire these drugs. This sadly made it tough for AIDS patients to get treatment.

Q2. How do you propose the private R&D companies working on new medicines be compensated for their work developing drugs, if not for their patents? Have you got an alternative model?

4. Well, I can only agree that it is more fair to:

(a) inform patients or if they are on an operating table -- then their next of kin prior to performing services, unless an emergency;

than the alternative which is to:

(b) not charge them, and then perform expensive operations or treatment, and to then charge them.

The second option isn't fair because then they need to declare bankruptcy. With option one, they can at least find alternative places or strategies to receive care which are more feasible.

Q3. How are the hospitals supposed to pay their doctors, staff or for the equipment, medicine or other fees -- if they're not paid?

5. Based on your Facebook comment reply entry: "(I) want poor people to die because the idea of paying taxes scares (me)", I sense, you believe that in response to my Q3, you would reply the government and therefore the taxpayer has to pay for the expenses incurred by the hospitals, right?

Okay, in such a case, can you please suggest:

Q4. Should taxpayers also pay for private healthcare providers? Or this should just be for state run hospitals?

6. I think most hospitals are private in the US and that it's either insurance or if no cash, no healthcare at all, right? In the UK, there's the NHS and then the more effective private sector. Universities often try to develop cures and treatments in the UK. In Singapore, there's substantial subsidies for locals and permanent residents, as foreigners pay the full price. There's also equivalents to Medicaid or other schemes as people fall through the cracks.

Q5. Again, kindly expound what system works best or is supposed to work best in your view? Subsequently, if possible, how do you or how are you supposed to determine success criteria?

7. Yes, I already pay for healthcare costs by paying taxes and even donate to charities that help the sick. However, I humbly don't see how doctors should be forced to treat patients for free. Although you and I disagree, it shouldn't be that everyone pays an unfair amount in taxes to pay for other people's health. I'm happy to put money into it too because the UK's NHS, although imperfect, does a great job.

Q6. How is everyone else supposed to manage if they have to lose most of their money to the government to pay for sick people?

Q7. Isn't it unfair for everyone else to pay too much? What proportion is fair in your view? Clearly, you'll vote Bernie or more likely available Biden, than how I would vote Trump, but I'm keen to learn more from you.

Sat 14 Mar

12:15 p.m.

I watched some videos, learned the news, replied to some irrelevant Facebook comments about healthcare, etc.

I'm having fun. I need to go get breakfast or lunch. Jeez, I often miss breakfast, I need intervention, I need some leadership support, I'm sure I'll eventually be okay. I'm having a lot of fun and learning things very quickly. I need to watch 176 CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) videos today.

12:30 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

I had lunch. I don't like lamb or mutton liver, I don't like it. It doesn't taste so good. I talked Uwin. I did 5 minute elliptical machine run. I had coffee. My eye sight is really bad now. I can't read two metres away clearly. I'm listening to Freddie Mercury and I think I can do his I was born to love you and Made in heaven dance now.

5:00 p.m.

I'm sleepy. Today's a bad day. It's a very sad thing when there's so much sickness and death. I think my brother Milan is missing too. I hope he's okay. Hehehe even if I claim██████████████████, I probably wouldn't do it.

6:30 p.m.

I was practising my 3rd Degree Freemason lines for upcoming Thursday when I'll be acting as the Inner Guard. I said it out loud 5 times. I'll do it every day, and I should manage to get it right.

8:15 p.m.

I was listening to music. I like Freddie Mercury, Don't Stop Believing, that kind of thing. I'm really sleepy. I'm so tired. Yuck. I need a fresh pair tomorrow. I hope they do laundry. I also need to take back a towel that my sister's taken.

I remember I threw a birthday pool party, and I think Buddesh De Silva also used one of my towels. What the f*** is wrong with people? Like seriously. I'm so traumatised. Jesus f***ing Christ. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

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8:30 p.m.

Muhammad was just like me. I also plagiarize and blatantly steal everything, and then put my own special twist, and then apply my branding, and sell for profit. Muhammad, wrath be upon him, just changed Solomon to Salman, Abraham to Ibrahim and ███████████████████████████████████████████

8:45 p.m.

I'm so sleepy. I like my Earl Grey tea. I'm so grateful to the De Worms family, cousins to the Rothschild family, (but I mean, they only incest anyway, so, they're all cousins -- except for marrying Amartya Sen) for giving us tea. I love tea. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

I hope Softlogic Dell Repair Shop has fixed my laptop. I love Softlogic. They're in trouble because the market is bad, but I think they'll be okay. I like Prashan Pathirage a lot, and his mum and dad Ashok Pathirage uncle. I don't trust anybody and he's bright, so, I feel lucky he's around.

He's like Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross and died on the cross on behalf of Jesus Christ. Except nobody dies or anything hehe. I noticed there's some damage to the wood in my bathroom, somebody has to clean that up. It could be termites or aging. My mum can get people to clean it up.

I need to read this Chris Voss book Never Split the Difference. It's a great book. I really like it. I wonder what's going on with my friends. I hope Sohli's sister Perrin is okay. I heard she's sick. Everyone dies, except Jesus who disappeared suddenly, like his body, and Simon of Cyrene.

I'm really happy to be Christian. I just think the bible was a metaphor and you need to see it as a parable and not a literal instruction. I like the idea of not being reincarnated as a chicken/ cow for all the chicken and cows I eat so happily. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

9:00 p.m.

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