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  3. Howdy

    I read your comment about your feelings about Wim Hof. So I got a question. When you had the opportunity to personally meet him did you share with him your long bicycle trips?

    What are the chances that Hurricane Fiona goes up the East Coast and makes a hard left turn (ala Hurricane Sandy) into Washington DC this weekend?

  4. When I am deciding if I should spend time listening to someone’s ideas about politics, culture, money, or health, I look for the acknowledgment of God in their frame of reference. It doesn’t have to be overt but it is the only source for a compassionate and generous view of the world.
    Colossians 2:8 ESV
    See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

  5. I second the notion of creating a Disinformation List or sorts, describing each scam and why all signs point to it being so. We’re all on a learning curve while being blasted with a firehose of information/disinformation, so it is helpful to get guidance from those who’ve been studying this longer than we have. Discernment develops over time, as critical thinking skills are honed, and one finds time to check primary sources of information. I find that vetting any new source, and giving time to only a trusted list of sources, saves time and error, but I wasn’t born knowing this. A refresher on how to discern truth might not only teach but get a most interesting discussion going amongst us.

  7. This comment is a little off topic but wanted to pass on some information I’ve found the hard way. The Health Information Exchanges (HIE) worry me a lot, as someone who’s worked in the admin end of the industry for a long time. Recently, I went to an urgent care center with an ear problem (started that day after a family member got vaccinated). One of the forms they asked me to sign was a consent to have my information go out on the HIE. I refused to sign it. The HIE is buried in all the consent HIPAA language. They refused to see me. I asked for my copay back. They saw me then. Though I had not consented to the HIE, when I visited a doctor 5 days later for the same ear issue, the nasty front desk person, staring at her computer screen said, “so you went to an urgent care 5 days ago”. No way they could’ve known that unless my information went out on the HIE, despite me refusing consent for it. A dentist office recently basically refused to see me when I refused to sign a form attesting to having seen a data privacy policy that I had not seen, and which the front desk person produced at my request, with a display of disbelief and then anger that I wouldn’t consent to a privacy policy I’d never seen. They handled their fury by making me sit in the waiting room a half hour before I finally just walked out. It seems to me that there must be $$ incentives for them to bully us into giving up our health data, and with the HIE, it seems we are giving our data to big tech and big government, no matter how they try to dress it up as “for your own good”. It’s not for my own good. I found a way to “opt out” here https://healthshareexchange.org/patient-options-opt-out-back/, for myself and anyone else interested. I also had to opt out in writing at the state level because my state has its own health information exchange, which is truly creepy. Opt outs can be found by an internet search “opt out, health information exchange”. This has all become very, very creepy, in my opinion.

    1. This is great insight. I just sent you an email for permission to use on Money & Markets and Financial Rebellion on an anonymous basis.

    2. I had the same thing happen to me. I refudpsed to sign something with a QR code and a “gene therapy” related to cancer or something similar. It was at my gynecologist (of a all places). When I refused to fill out the info or scan the QR code, the mood changed (they were quite aggressive) and they treated me like a petulant child telling me I wasted their time by not filling it out in the waiting room and it is required and Yada Yada…. I told the lady to write whatever she need to on the form but I wasn’t completing it. She then told me I was listed as noncompliant for not seeing about my lower back issues. I pondered and said “you mean the chiropractor?” She said it wasn’t her business but that is what my file said. I told her I go to the chiropractor when I need to go. It was bizarre. I was then given a bright pink paper to take with my bill. The clerk who checked me out was instantly rude. They tried to force me to go to schedule a mammogram and I said no. So I am labeled “noncompliant” now. Badge of honor I guess.

      1. Tara,

        The doctor’s offices are bullied into bullying you. I believe the “quality standard” is a mammogram every two years (though the time frame on the standard may have changed since I last saw it). If a certain percentage of the doctor’s patients get their mammogram on time, the doctor gets a financial bonus (on the taxpayer dime) and if not, the doctor gets labeled “poor quality” of care provider. Under the HITECH Act, there seems to be some sort of financial incentive for doctors to get you to buy into/sign on tech and government collecting your data. They are likely mad because your “non-compliance” might mean loss of bonus money for them. Seems to me that the “non-compliant” label gets passed from doctor to doctor through the data sharing you probably unknowingly agreed to. Thats’s my sense, is that my covid-19 vaccine refusal and refusal on mammograms ect is following me around. I never show up wearing a mask. I just get left in waiting rooms until I walk out and I get a lot of subtle attitude. I recognize the attitude because I work in the system. I know what terminal waiting room means. Anyway doctors get incentive dollars when you get a PAP smear, mammogram, take a statin drug, get your children vaccinated, take certain blood pressure drugs… thats why you get pushed to do these things. Money.

        1. Thank you for taking the time to respond. You are exactly right. Money is the root of all evil. I almost asked her if it was required because they get paid but chose to take the high road. I left and was really upset with witnessing these previously nice people turn. I understand the pressures they have whether they are willfully participating or are trapped because of loans, financial pressures, etc. I pray for them to get back to the human underneath which I know is there for some of them. Thank you for your perspective.

          After my gyno confronted me about my chiropractor visits, I did go into my insurance carrier account log in and found my “health history” designed to “make sure I address conditions and stay healthy” BS. It went back to 2008. I was astonished. I deleted it. Thank you for the link you also provided.

          1. Have to disagree with you there. The expression is that the love of money is the root of all evil. Money is a tool. It has no emotion. It is the human desire and use that adds the punch. In my experience financial greed is down the scale on the root of evil. It is the love of power and demonic pleasures that drive killing and harming that represents much of the evil in this world. Money is merely a tool used to help attract others into helping.

            Yes, beware health records.

      2. Sounds to me like a place to avoid in the future. You need to find a gynecologist you can trust.

        1. The data sharing thing started out well intentioned enough. For instance, a person discharged from a hospital on a Friday, develops problems on a Saturday morning, such as they couldn’t pick up their medications from the pharmacy because the insurance doesn’t cover it. Patient calls primary doctor who can’t help because he/she doesn’t know what happened in the hospital, and patient has to return to hospital emergency room for a new prescription and out of control blood sugar or heart rhythm. If the primary doctor has quick access to the hospital records, said doctor might be able to assist and avert a return to the hospital. What started out a well intentioned “good idea” has morphed and ballooned into something else entirely though. Tech and government collecting and controlling the data and data flow worries me and I don’t like it. One doctor might use an exaggerated diagnosis to “upcode” your visit and get a higher payment from the insurance company, but now the patient carries an inaccurate diagnosis through data sharing- this happened to me with an asthma diagnosis that follows me everywhere but I don’t have asthma. The mental health diagnoses especially are problematic in netting higher payments for providers in billing but may haunt a patient who may be unaware that a doctor used the diagnosis once, years prior. Heath care staff are not so impartial/non-judgmental as they’d have us believe.

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