Lots of people buy those bracelets, I'm sure, without any such expectation either. It's just hot fashion because Shaquille O'Neill is hawking it and everyone on the block has one..."
Then there should be no problem NOT making bogus health claims to sell the product.
I'm not defending scamming..."
Well...in the sense that "Everybody does it, why don't you go pick on someone else?" is a p***-poor defense...hey, you're right! :-)
I've heard of serious issues with this, but I also think common heartburn (no fun either) has, because of this branding practice, become a "worrisome" experience. Before, many more people felt generally healthy except for brief explainable discomfort. That's what gets me about the branding - ordinary and brief health experiences get turned into medical appointments, prescription meds, and actually increase level of worry.
I worked summers as a teen in a mid-sized mid-western hospital in the late 1950's, early 60's, serving largely a farm-based and suburban population. Many of the conditions now branded and worrisome, were at the time considered brief, fleeting, explainable (pulled muscles, wrong food). No one sought medical advice on these. Plenty of people, including farmers who did a lot of hard labor-intensive work, lived into their 80'-90's without joint replacements. Generalized physical labor did not result in wear/tear of 'repetitive' or intense sports activity, so I've explained some of the difference to myself that way - but I do wonder about all the joint replacement!
I, siblings, one parent have had this. It was a family "oddity" long before it was branded. I will agree, it did get promoted way beyond its 'problematic effect'. I've read descriptions where meds might be useful, but I think that is extreme - most people, for generations, have dealt with it without prescription meds. We didn't have a medical name for it, but did call it "restless legs". None of us had it to desperation, but certainly a major sleep disruption when it 'acted up'. I once read it's likely to continue, get worse, with age, but I'm now on the 'senior' side of 60 and haven't been bothered much for some years. I also read there's some thought it's neurological (nerve endings); 'special smoke' helped me back when I indulged.
All that said - I've heard people speak of their meds for assorted common health issues in a co-dependent "I'm so vulnerable" way - I mean people who appear to have ordinary, 'common level, complaint. I'm sometimes shocked at how we've "agreed" that we need meds at every turn!
I wonder if for some people, appointments and meds are how they experience feeling cared for. That raises of a different question about our culture, an important one!!
We've accepted "expert opinion" without first asking some critical questions. (IF after questions we decide the expert advice fits our condition, then meds, or other remedies, might be the way to go. But we've got to THINK first!) :)
I have since (also) checked your reference to amazon and found out that you aren't even telling the truth. Amazon DOES promote them as a magical product.
PLUS, the amazon reference shows that people do buy this product without any such understanding, as there are lots and lots of buyer comments asserting that they just like the bracelet as fashion. Backing up what I said in my earlier post.
Gone hiding, haven't you, without anything left in your argument. It's silly and unsubstantial. You're probably one of the claimants in this ridiculous deep pocket law suit: you bought a bracelet for 4.95 and are now sueing the athletes just as you planned from the beginning of YOUR scam.
Such an interesting and amazing story. It will be exciting to study, research and learn about how Mubarak was ousted by a protracted protest, to understand more clearly how each of these components worked together to open the path toward the opportunity Egyptians now have to create their society.
As far as happening in America though, the idea for a killswitch is the BIG news so to speak, but more invasive and worrisome for our civil liberties on a daily basis is the advent of the military division of CyberCom which will no doubt be instructed to monitor all the social media Websites, blogs and other activist web pages.
Additionally, while it is one thing for politicians to support a en mass protest demanding the overthrow of a leader in a country that is not their own, here, it cannot be expected. In September of 2009 the G20 was hosted in Pittsburgh, PA, activist groups were spied on and their protest permits delayed through the courts and then denied. The National Guard was present and the city imported thousands of extra police officers. Once one crossed the bridges you entered a militarized zone where civil liberties ceased to exist; helicopters circled overhead, blacked-out SUVs roamed the streets and gunboats waited in the river. A small group of protesters marched from a park a mile from downtown toward the center and were attacked with military sound cannons and teargas after only a couple blocks. At night, after 9 the security forces all but instituted a curfew and fired on the gathered crowd chanting "Let's go Pitt" and "Beer Pong" with rubber bullets and teargas. No, for all the calls for restraint abroad, it is easier to wash the faces of citizens at home in sulfer.
So then, how can we learn and be inspired by Egyptians? Who or what is our Mubarak? How can we reshape these revolutions to fit our place?
Then there should be no problem NOT making bogus health claims to sell the product.
Well...in the sense that "Everybody does it, why don't you go pick on someone else?" is a p***-poor defense...hey, you're right! :-)
I've heard of serious issues with this, but I also think common heartburn (no fun either) has, because of this branding practice, become a "worrisome" experience. Before, many more people felt generally healthy except for brief explainable discomfort. That's what gets me about the branding - ordinary and brief health experiences get turned into medical appointments, prescription meds, and actually increase level of worry.
I worked summers as a teen in a mid-sized mid-western hospital in the late 1950's, early 60's, serving largely a farm-based and suburban population. Many of the conditions now branded and worrisome, were at the time considered brief, fleeting, explainable (pulled muscles, wrong food). No one sought medical advice on these. Plenty of people, including farmers who did a lot of hard labor-intensive work, lived into their 80'-90's without joint replacements. Generalized physical labor did not result in wear/tear of 'repetitive' or intense sports activity, so I've explained some of the difference to myself that way - but I do wonder about all the joint replacement!
I, siblings, one parent have had this. It was a family "oddity" long before it was branded. I will agree, it did get promoted way beyond its 'problematic effect'. I've read descriptions where meds might be useful, but I think that is extreme - most people, for generations, have dealt with it without prescription meds. We didn't have a medical name for it, but did call it "restless legs". None of us had it to desperation, but certainly a major sleep disruption when it 'acted up'. I once read it's likely to continue, get worse, with age, but I'm now on the 'senior' side of 60 and haven't been bothered much for some years. I also read there's some thought it's neurological (nerve endings); 'special smoke' helped me back when I indulged.
All that said - I've heard people speak of their meds for assorted common health issues in a co-dependent "I'm so vulnerable" way - I mean people who appear to have ordinary, 'common level, complaint. I'm sometimes shocked at how we've "agreed" that we need meds at every turn!
I wonder if for some people, appointments and meds are how they experience feeling cared for. That raises of a different question about our culture, an important one!!
We've accepted "expert opinion" without first asking some critical questions. (IF after questions we decide the expert advice fits our condition, then meds, or other remedies, might be the way to go. But we've got to THINK first!) :)
I have since (also) checked your reference to amazon and found out that you aren't even telling the truth. Amazon DOES promote them as a magical product.
PLUS, the amazon reference shows that people do buy this product without any such understanding, as there are lots and lots of buyer comments asserting that they just like the bracelet as fashion. Backing up what I said in my earlier post.
Gone hiding, haven't you, without anything left in your argument. It's silly and unsubstantial. You're probably one of the claimants in this ridiculous deep pocket law suit: you bought a bracelet for 4.95 and are now sueing the athletes just as you planned from the beginning of YOUR scam.
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