Vaccination isnt 100% effective. When people talk about herd immunity, the "free riders" it tolerates should be are those that were vaccinated yet it didn't take. If one of them gets sick, the disease wont be able to transmit to the others because of those that are immune. Adding other non-vaccinated people to the mix increases the odds that these vaccinated-but-vulnerable people will be at risk as the disease is able to find enough transmission to stay viable.
Herd immunity[1]. There is a threshold however, and if the vaccination rates get too low then herd immunity is less effective as the free-riders become a risk vector. In other words herd immunity works when the great majority is immunized and can sustain some free-riders but it can't sustain many free-riders.
This always rubbed me the wrong way. Remember back in the day Red Cross doing this and this was before Haiti scandal.
Could be a decent business to pay x amount for people to donate blood and sell it to hospital. People would be incentivised to donate blood, hospital would get more off it and given they are already paying for it.
What usually happens in these kind of things is mistress or partner shares images with friends and someone looks to profit or take vengeance behalf of cheated friend. I'm baffled nobody brings this up.
We mustn't forget, the War Media is always agitating for more military action. "State actor" gets them a lot closer to their goal than "fat dude in his mom's basement".
>In Europe I believe that insurance already may not discriminate on sex: compared to women, men's car insurance got cheaper
That's false. After EU came meddling insurance was raised for men to the same level women had even though men have statistically lower risk of accident.
You've probably heard of the phrase "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
So, I think (though I will admit it was long ago last time I looked this up), that men have a lower accident rate per mile driven but have a higher accident rate per time period (not time period driving). The reason is that men drive more (or at least use to, back when I read these statistics).
There is also the difference between different kinds of accidents. While per mile driven men have less accidents than women, they tend to, as you mentioned, be worse accidents. I forget if this actually made them cost more per mile driven or not, but once you also add in that they drive more, in a given year men do cost more and are charged more. (There is also the impact of younger men who have more thrill seeking behavior, so if you compared men and women within a specific age group you might find the statistics don't match the statistics across all age groups.)
So, thanks to the beauty of statistics, we can say that men are better drivers than women and men are worse drivers than women by using slightly different definitions of better or worse that, in layman English, are glossed over.
> they tend to, as you mentioned, be worse accidents.
This reminds me of red light cameras. People love to complain that they only exist to make money because they statistically cause more accidents. And it's true, they do cause an increase in total number of accidents. But they decrease the number of serious accidents. You get more rear end collisions, but fewer T-Bone collisions which tend to be much more serious.
Could depend on the age group and driving record. In some age groups men can be overly aggressive drivers but overall less accidents compared to women.
For the person who downvoted OP was referring to the EU. Previously men paid less but when EU decided statistics are sexist now both pay the same higher amount. Yay for the consumer
The best I could do in 5 minutes googling was newspapers complaining that, on average, men still pay more... because they drive (on average) further, in more expensive cars.
And rumours that they are setting the rates for different professions as a way to get around the rule... huge differences like this:
Dental Nurse Less than 1pc male £840
Solicitor 59pc male £848
Sports and leisure assistants 56pc male £880
Civil engineer 92pc male £910
Social worker 21pc male £920
Plasterer 98pc male £950
I had an idea that retirement annuities etc, which are a much bigger deal, were much more regulated & could only price based on a few numbers. But I don't have a link.
It was big news at the time in Europe as it affected vast amount of people's bottom line (mine as well). Would be interesting to know if it was lobbied to some extend.
The premise was that women would pay the same amount as men lowering the rate (Good thing). But for everyone who have followed politics knew it's not going to be a so simple. You have countless of examples where companies just skirt around the law and it end up hurting consumers.
Pretty much sums many EU decisions. On paper they can seem decent enough but in reality not so much. And women were affected as well as you might imagine low income families took the biggest relative hit.
Is one person really going to take you out of course if you are doing something you want? In that case you have to figure out what you really want. Getting in shape people criticising gave the added fuel to succeed and storm ahead
Some people have a low self intertia. It takes very little external preasure to change their perception of them selves. They can’t just “fix” that. Many don’t even know they could “fix” it.
It’s like a parent telling a kid they suck at somthing. It has a lasting effect on the persons perception of them selves.
If you’re so afraid of rejection that you’re willing to postpone something, then a few overtly negative responses can certainly dissuade you from trying again.
The author in the article was talking about the reaction of friends, so we can’t say whether or not random internet comments would have meant something to the author, but they certainly do to some people.
I think it’s a valuable skill to be able to save your criticism for when it really matters to you, and then to deliver it in a thoughtful manner. Even if you’re anonymous on the internet. A good rule, for me, especially on the internet is to ask myself what I hope to achieve from someone reading what I post. In that context I certainly hope you’d never write “Is this real? [...] This is dumb and useless.".
