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Listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast.. if you make over $30k/yr, you ARE in the top 1%.. worldwide.Most of us really just don't stop to think how damn good we have it here
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Listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast.. if you make over $30k/yr, you ARE in the top 1%.. worldwide.Most of us really just don't stop to think how damn good we have it here
This made me laugh so hard. Well done
This. I own both books and if I ever have to run for the hills, bet your bubblegum both books are coming with me.During med courses and dental school, these two books helped me with the concepts of personal care. Of course you would need to jimmy rig some tools together but for the most part, you can have the same education as a Doctor but just don't sue me if you mess yourself up. I would still keep a Doctor and Dentist within my network of friends. If not at least a registered nurse or a certified nursing assistant.
Back in the old days, you'd often just die. A common cause of death was simply annotated as "teeth" by the undertaker.
19th century shtf situation, will almost necessarily demand 19th century solutions... Grab the channel locks and start yanking.
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This may, or may not, have been posted in jest, but yes, I have done just that, thankfully not on myself, for some emergency dental work that needed doing. I remember reading the story of a guy in Alaska who had a bad/broken tooth who ended up taking a knife and cutting the gums open and then prying the broken off tooth root out. Also something I would not care to do on myself.
Troof!I've known a few impoverished people who had no money for such care. Emergency or not. These people had dental issues and they just learned to live with the pain and discomfort until the tooth festered enough to fall out. Or be easily plucked out with the fingers. Yes, there are systemic infections that can result from dental issues. Like cardiac problems. People with no money don't worry about it so much. They have other existential concerns. Until they don't.
These days, there are local government programs for getting dental care for poor people. But there are the usual quantities of red tape, finding professionals who will participate in the program, and long waiting lists. Way better than nothing for people with no money. Some poor people just don't have the tolerance for even these obstacles.
Proper dental care is a luxury for a large segment of the population. Obamacare doesn't cover any dental. If you are financially well-off, you can afford to pay privately. A relatively small segment of the population has decent paid dental care, such as police officers, teachers and maybe the Boeing Company. The truly poor can sign up for care on the dole. There are a whole bunch of people in the middle who work, don't have that much money, and typically have no effective dental care. Dental treatment is expensive. There are a lot of "plans" out there that sound like dental coverage, but are so limited as to annual payouts, co-pays, limits to individual procedures, etc., as to be almost worthless. At least they cover routine cleaning.
I've got pretty good medical care through Kaiser Permanente Wash. I kept it through my employer when I retired. Even though I'm signed up for Medicare now, I still keep the Kaiser coverage. BUT: Like most other plans and insurance, teeth are not part of the human body when it comes to coverage.
SHTF situation, I think people would just have to grin and bear it or go the Channel-Lock route.
Went to Germany and got several procedures done while visiting, and they cost less then 1/4 what it would have cost me here