Long-Lived Floating Hospital Is Still Going, Just Not Floating – The New York Times
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I am intrigued by Joe Biden’s proposal to lower the Medicare age to 60. 😷
I am intrigued by Joe Biden’s proposal to lower the Medicare age to 60. 😷
While I have not made a decision yet on who I will vote for come November, I do think lowering the Medicare age is a realistic proposal that builds on the existing system at an fairly affordable cost.
Medicare is not cheap when you consider the cost of the supplemental insurance but it is a lot more affordable to a silver level plan on the Affordable Healthcare Act marketplace. It might be great for those people who can’t return to the traditional workforce after the Coronavirus PAUSE, those who want to retire early or run their own business.
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The Top 10 Moral Panics of the 2010s – Reason.com
Human beings are anxious creatures. We worry about things that might kill us. We worry about things that might kill our children. We worry about things that might get our children high. Even if a trend clearly doesn't create any mortal danger, we worry about the threat it poses to all that's good and wholesome in society. The world faces plenty of real problems, but more often than not the things that pique our collective anxieties are wildly overblown.
Before the 2020s start tossing us a new set of worries, it would be useful to reflect on the last batch of folk demons that we were frightened of and then forgot about. So here are 10 of the biggest moral panics of the last 10 years. Some were real but rare dangers; others were fictions from the get-go.
Moral Panics – Subcultures and Sociology
Moral panics are situations in which the general public experiences an unjustified panic about a specific social issue; politicians and other interested parties?create moral panics to direct what the public worries about and focuses on. In his 1972 book Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Stanley Cohen set the stage for the sociological study of moral panics by examining?the classic moral panic in 1960s Britain of violence between two subcultural groups: Mods and Rockers.?Cohen expressed that the major issue was the “fundamentally inappropriate” reaction to social figures in society to the minor events that occurred (Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994).
A Sociological Understanding of Moral Panic
A moral panic is a widespread fear, most often an irrational one, that someone or something is a threat to the values, safety, and interests of a community or society at large. Typically, a moral panic is perpetuated by the news media, fueled by politicians, and often results in the passage of new laws or policies that target the source of the panic. In this way, moral panic can foster increased social control.
Moral panics are often centered around people who are marginalized in society due to their race or ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, or religion. As such, a moral panic often draws on known stereotypes and reinforces them. It can also exacerbate the real and perceived differences and divisions between groups of people. Moral panic is well known in the sociology of deviance and crime and is related to the labeling theory of deviance.
Been doing a lot of reading about moral panics today
Been doing a lot of reading about moral panics today. I saw this really dumb Facebook post about the dangers of bumper stickers being passed around by some hick town police department and it reminded me how idiotic social media can be. I’m glad I don’t own a color television and have to see all this crap on television.