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Most catastrophic health insurance policies are less than a dollar a day and cover you in the event of life threating treatment. Much cheaper than traditional health insurance.

The rest is lifestyle. Stop being a fatass and you won't need big government up in your health business

Just because we have healthcare doesn't make it a health system

https://www.sbis.ca/should-you-have-catastrophic-health-insurance.html

Dragon's Cry - A Voice In The Thunder (Christian Power Metal
https://youtu.be/MBcJTjVIkAY

FEMINISTS say "the future is female"

Not if the trans have anything to say about it

I swear if they ever turn me into a robot I'll go full terminator on their ass

so they change into glacier ice that flows down the valleys into the sea and breaks off into the icebergs that are the delight and dread of the transatlantic tourist. Thus we have in fact as well as in the hymn-book "Greenland's icy mountains"'

- Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Friendly Arctic, 1921

These being the facts, it seems strange at first that people should so universally have the idea that the lands of the far north are covered with glaciers. The explanation is simple. There is one land in the north that is covered with glaciers and from it all the rest of the North has been pictured by analogy. Greenland is a mass of high mountains in a region of precipitation so heavy that the heat of summer does not suffice to thaw all the accumulated snows of winter,

Geologists tell us that a few millenniums aga there was a sheet of ice covering England in Europe and New England in America. At that time what are now the cities of New York and London were covered by an ice sheet, but there was no ice sheet covering the low plains of northern Alaska, and the never has been since. The explanation is that northern Alaska is low, flat land with a precipitation so light that the snow which falls in winter is all thawed away in the spring

forming icebergs that float away to be rapidly melted by the warm waters of the Pacific. But if you travel seven or eight hundred miles overland from the glacier-infested south coast northward you come to the prairies bordering the Alaskan north coast. Here is a comparatively cold climate; but on the great triangular coastal plain of Fifty thousand square miles there are no mountains, consequently no glaciers.

British Columbia is the warmest province in all Canada, and yet it contains three-quarters of all the glaciers of continental Canada, again because of the heavy precipitation. The south coast of Alaska has a climate not very different from that of British Columbia or of Scotland, though somewhat more rainy than Scotland. A comparatively warm country, southern Alaska contains huge glaciers which in some instances reach to the ocean and break off,

There are known to be huge glaciers in subtropical Asia and lesser ones in South America. They are eternal on the mountain tops of Mexico; in California they come a little nearer sea level, as they do in Switzerland. They come lower yet in the state of Washington, not primarily because it is farther north but chiefly because of the heavier precipitation.

In the process of removing the imaginary Arctic from our minds, we come to the proposition that all land in the far north is covered with eternal ice.
Permanent ice on land is another name for a glacier. When we stop to think of it, glaciers exist in any part of the world with the proper combination of the high altitude and heavy precipitation.
Mount Kenya in Africa, the top of which is considered to be about seven miles from the equator, has "eternal ice" upon it, a glacier of considerable area

But false views when strongly held are as powerful in their effect upon human conduct as any true views can be, and this has been another reason why men brought up on the shores of the Atlantic have striven into the polar area with the latitude of 90 degrees North as their goal, but with the practical result of progressively uncovering vast areas that lay between.

But that bit of knowledge has succeeded in maintaining itself as the exclusive property of a few specialists, and the world in general has imagined the North Pole to be to the Arctic what the mountain top is to the mountain. That analogy is true when applied to the Pole of Inaccessibility but not when applied to the geographic North Pole.