Wonderful article, spot on.

...let alone not deliver at all for days due to "inclement" weather. Makes you wonder how Scandinavia or Switzerland cope...

Spot on

Agreed. Also overlooked: Cuban pharma industry https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8565042/

A "bit" one-sided - as is to be expected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

How do you spell that? ;-p

For someone who may have illegally obtained his green card/citizenship https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/insights/legal/immigrat... he is pretty vocal about what other countries should or shouldn't be doing. Immigrants are a top issue for AfD.

Same here, just had one in the US and I refused to be sedated as I knew from previous one in EU that it is tolerable. You should have seen the song and dance of the provider trying to convince me to get sedated. In the end they accepted my decision. Afterwards about everybody in the clinic came to see me as if I was a hero of sorts. However,the whole episode gave me a good insight as to why US healthcare is so expensive.

I'll turn 70 next year and am about to do my first single arm pull up. I think, if you set yourself a goal - even an ambitious one - and keep pursuing it, by defintion you will improve your physique and ability. Just keep at it.