Would we? I am not convinced the amount of idiocy would be low enough to prevent problems. Most of the arguments I have seen have been "this is a hoax" type or other arguments not based in reality. I agree there is an arugement to be made over whether or not to close based on death rates and whatnot, but I do not hear those arguments that much.
The people screaming that it is a hoax and its their freedom I generally assume would react similarly to a even more severe crisis. Maybe I am over estimating their numbers based on the fact that they are loud, but assuming they will realize it is really serious in the cases you describe is a leap I am not willing to make.
I know someone working at a VC funded startup for a few years, they have way more employees than they probably need and seem to be paying 20-30% above the going rates to attract talent. That combination makes it hard to turn a profit. Yet they keep getting more cash infusions even though they are losing money.
My initial thought on Ibuprofen is just correlation not causation. How many people who get a fever will try Ibuprofen to try to lower the fever? Probably quite a few. When these people die its easy to say "well they all had Ibuprofen". That doesn't mean it had any effect.
On the flip side, NSAIDs do reduce inflammation and inflammation is part of the body's response to various stressors; I could see that lowering our response leads to worse outcomes when sick. I have always thought that cold medication increases the duration of a cold just from my own observations, so I do find it at least plausible.
I agree on the high blood pressure, if you are on it that means you have hypertension and are likely in poorer shape than someone who does not take it. I can somewhat see diuretics having an impact though as those can flush needed minerals out of your body when your body is in need. They also dehydrate you, so if you are on one and don't get properly hydrated and have a proper mineral balance, I can see that being a big negative.
Even if you are right, in the US almost all old people vote and a small amount of young people do. Guess what that means for politicians? They do what is best for the old. Not to mention a lot of young people don't really want to watch their parents and other elderly family members die en masse so they would probably be against this too.
There is a hobby shop by me that strictly enforces it, as nerds and hygiene don't always go together. I have seen them kick multiple people out. It doesn't seem to negatively impact their business, and I prefer going there to play games over one that is closer that does not have that rule (plus the other place tend to be hot which makes it even worse).
I wasn't out of college long, but I managed to survive two layoffs where I worked. We had almost no turnover in developers for a year or two because basically no one was hiring, normal for that job at that time was probably around 20% per year if not higher. There were no jobs to have, some of the people that were laid off didn't get jobs for upwards of a year, and some of those I know that did, ended up moving to get a job (I am not in one of the top 3 cities for it). They also really didn't give raises or promotions during that time either.
When I was in school, the comp sci program was so full it was hard to get into classes, hard to find a computer free in a lab to do the assignments/projects. The same college a few years later didn't have that problem from people I talked to. I never looked up the numbers, but I would imagine the number of people going into it dropped quite a bit, at least if the anecdotal stories I heard are to be believed.
Where I worked had nothing to do with experimental tech or anything, we lived on selling somewhat specialized, expensive software and hardware. The problem was, no one wanted to spend money.
It was somewhat demoralizing, as the second round of layoffs really hurt and it wasn't a fun job anymore, but I couldn't do anything about that for awhile.
I also know people who invested poorly that had all of their savings evaporated. Some people were paid partially in stock that pretty much went to 0 very quickly. It wasn't the best time.
I would never upload my DNA profile, but I have relatives who do. So I am not broadcasting the info, but other family members may.
I am generally alright with law enforcement using public information like this, but it could be used against me without me ever making said data public. So I find your argument invalid.
If one or two doctors missed it, I would be ok, but basically everyone I saw ignored it. My neurologist thought something else might be causing it and sent me somewhere else to get it looked at. That was about half way through the process, so the doctors were being told that someone thought something else was going on and they still missed something rather easy to see.
I have had other issues where doctors thought I was lying to them, although no others that ended up with any serious consequences, just having to go see someone else.
I also had a doctor recommend dangerous surgery for a condition I ended up not having. Which, yes, getting a second opinion is good, but had I not done that, I would have had major surgery on my head that has a roughly 10% chance to deafen you for life.
I have the misfortune of having multiple rare issues (on more than just my eyes) and as a result, dealing with western medicine sucks.
My father has similar issues, so I have seen it with him too. For example, doctors let his appendix explode inside of him after he went into ER twice complaining of extreme pain in his abdomen. It exploded a few hours into the second visit and he almost died.
I went through an annoyance with my vision. I ended up having two separate conditions (well a total of 5 things were wrong with my eyes, but two acive major ones and two that will eventually cause more surgery later but aren't a big deal yet and one that was minor), but because the first one seemed like it was causing the problems, it took me almost a year to find and get real treatment for my issues so I could be able to see properly again. It was really depressing as my vision just kept getting worse and eye doctors were not helping. Right before my surgery my eyes got to the point I couldn't legally drive (bear in mind that I was under 40 at this point) even with glasses.
I just kept trying different doctors until an intern assistant to one of them saw the actual issue and got me referred to an awesome specialist who confirmed the diagnosis (and found the other problems I had not known about yet) and got me to a surgeon who did surgery to fix it. As a result of this, I strongly distrust doctors and I think they can sense that when I see them.
For those more curious, I had Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension as I am rather large. Due to being large and doctors being able to see that problem, they just assumed it was the issue and they never looked at anything else. They put me on NASTY drugs to fix the issue, but my eye sight just kept getting worse. I have no idea why it took an intern to see the problem, but in the end I had ABMD (also known as Map-Dot-Fingerprint Dystrophy). I believe a total of 6 eye doctors and two neurologists completely missed it. I really should have gotten the intern's name and properly thanked him, as who knows how much longer I would have had to go without a diagnosis. IIH can cause blindness, as it will slowly destroy your vision (or in some cases quickly), so I kinda understand why they may not have seen it, but from what I have read, it sounds like ABMD is pretty easy to see if you look for it, and none of the real doctors did.
So I hope no one out there ever has multiple problems causing similar symptoms, because doctors can't be bothered to think about that possibility, at least eye doctors.
Vote 3rd party, participating in the 2 party system is contributing to the problem. I realize there can be issues with some of the candidates but if none of the main 2 do what you want, vote for someone else. I rarely vote for one of the 2 major parties, I would guess 1 out of 10 times I may.
I completely agree. At my first professional programming job, I had to follow a style guide that forced me to code the verbose way. It drove me nuts and I found another job about 6 months later.
The less lines of code, the faster you can read a code base, apply fixes and have less bugs. Obviously you can take that too far and make code so dense no one can read it. It is finding a balance between the two. Comments can go a long way towards making complex code understandable within reason.
I am going to guess its more than just getting the new cert. They need to get the new cert, they need to resign all addons and then they some how need a way to force everyones browser to re-enable them. This could go on for quite some time if they have no plan in place to handle this sort of thing.
And if they were good at planning, this would not have happened in the first place. At least give us a button or something for "I don't give a shit if it isn't signed, enable it"
Hopefully management being fired. This reeks of management not letting the technical team automate something or other bad decision making that lead to this. If one person was in charge of it and they messed it up, that is as much the fault of whomever gave that important task to only one person as the person making the mistake. I don't want the low-level person punished, I want the one who put them in the place to be able to make such a bad mistake without any sort of redundancy or contingency plan.
The people screaming that it is a hoax and its their freedom I generally assume would react similarly to a even more severe crisis. Maybe I am over estimating their numbers based on the fact that they are loud, but assuming they will realize it is really serious in the cases you describe is a leap I am not willing to make.