So - we should all be getting solar panels since electricity is so valuable.

I bet he’d fire any of his engineers that took a totally distracting side job that consumed most of their time.   Not a good move for CEOs either.

Of course Apple would never plan such a thing to keep people from using old equipment instead of buying new ones...

Have you looked at local cash prices with the goodrx app or web site? 

You should look at nearby local cash prices with the goodrx app or web site.  A lot of these generic drugs are dirt cheap.   If you take several drugs the Amazon deal is probably good, though.

Users should be verified and held individually responsible for anything they post, and the internet would work just fine. Just like individuals are held responsible for paying for things they order online, or accessing their bank accounts.

The parties have been at war with each other since Newt Gingrich impeached Bill Clinton over something personal (while having his own clandestine affair).  Now any compromise is impossible because it would be cooperating with the enemy. And it can’t ever change.

You know women are allowed to vote these days, don’t you? And they outnumber men. All they have to do is show up and vote for their own interests and they can get whatever they want.

I could never live in a state run by a religious cult.  Makes Kansas look good...

Is it legal for the federal government to require the tech companies to collect and store data for them? Courts finally (after many years) got around to admitting that it was in fact unconstitutional to do it themselves after Snowden revealed the program that James Clapper lied to Congress about. I have no doubt that…

Of course the companies are forced to turn it over. And they don’t just ‘happen’ to have the data in the first place. They’d be prohibited from doing business like Huawei for refusing to spy for the US.

The best government that money can buy...

They aren’t “just purchasing what’s out there”. They are arranging for it to be out there for their access on demand. This was the solution when Snowden revealed the illegal surveillance the NSA was doing itself.

How can public companies hide the amount of money they get from the government, even if it is for spying?

I think if you back out gun deaths and illegal drug overdoses - which aren’t really related to the healthcare system (but perhaps controlled by the same legislative idiocy...) US life expectancy would be more in line with other countries.

Well, alliances with other countries anyway...

I didn’t say it would be any sooner. It was before vaccines. Not so much now. As the chart of ‘all deaths’ I linked long ago clearly shows. This one, in case you’ve forgotten or still irrationally think large numbers of people are dying unexpectedly or early.

First, disabled people can mostly be vaccinated.  Second, the avoidance strategies don’t work.   Please show some evidence that Dr. Fauci could have done something different to avoid it.  And why you know better than him about how it spreads.

Like my initial comment said, everybody is going to get it.  Stay vaccinated, see your doctor, get treated if needed, get better, and move on.  If 79 year old Biden can work through it while isolating, so can you.  People will die with it, but now rarely ‘because’ of it.  Remember back when people just died because…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/joe-biden-speech-trump-covid-b2132509.html