Month: January 2025

My mother believes that healthcare laws in the USA violate international rules that the USA must follow. She has said for decades that all doctors in the country are quacks, health insurance is a scam, and you’re better off treating medical issues yourself.

She believes doctors, nursing homes, and other care facilities are for people who don’t have living relatives. She believes that medical care is the responsibility of the living relatives, and anyone who went to college should be able to provide medical care to their relatives. She also believes any man could lift and carry any other person regardless of how much that person weighs and how old that man is. Effectively, my mother thinks it is a human rights violation to send a person with living relatives to a doctor, nursing home, or any other kind of care facility.

My mother also believes that health care and other medical insurance are one great big scam, and they might as well not exist at all. In her opinion, insurance companies have a significant incentive to reject all claims, so paying the insurance premiums is a waste of money, and insurance companies have no reason to ever pay any of your claims.

My mother believes doctors don’t know any more than anyone else. When you go to a doctor for anything, she believes you are actually volunteering to be a guinea pig for experimentation by the doctor. Therefore, she believes that if doctors actually had the knowledge to treat and heal people that other people don’t know, then doctors would never get sick or die.

Ultimately, my mother believes current laws regarding elder care are wrong. She thinks adult children should be required to provide 24/7 medical care for their elderly parents without the assistance of doctors, nursing homes, other care facilities, etc. For this to work, she believes adult children should be required to tell their employers immediately when their parents are not well, and employers should be required to fire the employee immediately to provide that 24/7 medical care.

 

 

My mother strongly believes in not flying on a plane (commercial airlines, specifically).

You know how there is a surgeon general’s warning on packages of cigarettes? My mother would like to see a warning on the airline websites and on board the plane.

My mother says it is a fact that flying on a plane is the most dangerous form of transportation, and people should dread getting on a plane so much that they should avoid going anywhere that requires flying on a plane to get there.

So, she would probably like to see a warning about how dangerous flying is and that people should pray for their lives before, during, and after every flight. When you buy your ticket, the airline should ask whether your affairs and will are in order.  Recent incidents only reinforce her belief that flying on a plane is dangerous.

As far as she is concerned, nobody should go anywhere too far by car.

Finally, she says she heard on the news that a massive airline industry labor strike in the USA is imminent, and it will effectively shut down all the airlines.