**A Critical Look at the Healthcare System**

As we navigate the complexities of our healthcare system, it's essential to acknowledge its shortcomings. The system is often criticized for being dismal, and while Jamaica's healthcare system may fare worse, ours still has its flaws. One significant issue is the lack of transparency and communication with patients. In some cases, patients are unaware that they need insurance or don't have to inform anyone about their health status.

**Security Breaches and Data Loss**

The recent security breaches at various travel companies have left travelers' personal information exposed. The most egregious example was a Jamaican company called Jamaica's Jam Co., which had its headline pulled offline after three security lapses exposed the data of millions of people. This highlights the importance of robust cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive information.

The breach occurred when foreign travelers were asked to provide their contact information, including where they were staying during quarantine. This information was then stored in a database that was poorly secured, making it vulnerable to hacking. The data was later leaked online, further compromising the security of the system.

**Vaccine Data and Exploitation**

The rollout of vaccines has brought about new concerns regarding data collection and exploitation. CVS and Walgreens have been collecting vast amounts of data from vaccinated individuals, which they plan to use for marketing purposes. This raises questions about the ethics of using this data, particularly when it comes to sensitive information like health status.

The companies have acknowledged that the data will be used to identify new customers who never filled a prescription or subscription at CVS before receiving the vaccine. This highlights the potential for data exploitation and raises concerns about the privacy of these individuals.

**Pharmacies and Data Collection**

Small local pharmacies may struggle to deal with the demands of collecting and storing vaccination data. They lack the resources and infrastructure to handle such vast amounts of information, making it difficult for them to ensure its security.

In contrast, larger companies like CVS and Walgreens have the necessary systems in place to collect and analyze this data. However, even they face challenges in keeping this information secure, as evidenced by the recent security breaches.

**The Importance of Transparency**

As we move forward with vaccination efforts, it's essential to prioritize transparency and communication with patients. This includes providing clear information about the risks and benefits of vaccines, as well as ensuring that patients' data is collected and stored securely.

In some cases, companies like CVS and Walgreens have been criticized for their lack of transparency in collecting and using patient data. It's crucial that we hold these organizations accountable for their actions and ensure that they prioritize patient privacy above all else.

**The Hard Stuff: Alcoholic Root Beer**

After discussing the complexities of our healthcare system and security breaches, it's time to talk about something more enjoyable – alcoholic root beer. While there isn't such a thing as truly "alcoholic" root beer, some brands offer flavored beverages with a stronger kick.

As someone who prefers not to drink poison (i.e., hard liquor), I opt for these flavored drinks instead. However, I must admit that they can have an unexpected effect on my head, making me feel a bit lightheaded after an hour.

In contrast, enjoying a glass of apple-flavored vodka is a different story altogether. The combination of sugar and alcohol content may not be ideal, but for some people, it's the perfect way to unwind.

**The Bottom Line**

As we navigate the complexities of our healthcare system and security breaches, it's essential to prioritize transparency and communication with patients. We must also acknowledge the importance of data collection and analysis in public health efforts.

While there are no easy answers, we can start by advocating for greater accountability from companies like CVS and Walgreens. By doing so, we can ensure that our healthcare system is more secure, transparent, and patient-centric.

And when it comes to enjoying a cold drink on a hot day, it's all about personal preference – whether you opt for the real deal or a flavored alternative.

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well it great company and they have a great product you know who maybe doesn't have the greatest products at least not yet is electric vehicle companies and one of the big sticking points there is where do you charge it if you charge it at home now you've got a radius and people don't want a radius so what are we going to do about it our fearless leader has the answer rs technica reports that biden is pushing an ev chargers utility network thingy they're planning a unified network joe biden has called for 500 000 new ev chargers by 2030. this seems ambitious but it's really not a lot of uh car dealerships want in on the whole you know electric vehicle charger thing so they're really excited about deploying this kind of stuff now you're wondering what do those colors mean well it's a bunch of different companies this is not really a standard or a consortium in terms of like everybody's doing the same thing everybody's doing their own thing they're just agreeing geography and geographically on where they're going to do it and they're all going to kind of work together to give you ev chargers yeah and it's there's also a you know variation of standards so there's like you know the 400 kilowatt ones and then like the 250 kilowatt ones and you know sometimes you can't even like the grid won't even give you that electricity that's the other really interesting thing about some of these ev chargers right now is that the charging station might support the high capacity but if you show up on a hot summer day and everybody's got their air conditioner on it's not going to charge at the fast rate because the grid doesn't have the capacity that's the other thing a lot of people are saying hey i don't want to hang out at a gas station for 30 or 45 minutes does it make more sense to put ev chargers at a restaurant or a grocery store i think it does i think so too of course you're gonna have to kick in something well maybe not i'm sure that they would love to have those parking spots yeah because you're guaranteed to have someone in the store for 30 minutes at least yeah probably going to the deli it'd be perfect you know for grocery shopping trips absolutely so uh this might end up being a move that we just end up with abandoned chargers because no one cares because they're everywhere because the market dictates it because the market dictated it not the leader that's how it works biden also weighed in on another big tech matter and this one's bigger even than amazon i mean amazon's big but this is even bigger than amazon i'm surprised he weighed in on this one to be honest really yeah what about his history uh the corporate donors nah he's got a panda to his base plus they got the they got amazon by the balls what's amazon going to do yeah biden expresses support for amazon union vote in alabama make your voice heard also it's very important what you're not realizing here like you're not reading between the political bs he didn't say vote for the union he just said vote yeah make your voice heard yeah but i think yeah it's clear what he wants you to do i mean to be sure like unionization is a big part of uh american history and a lot of the time it is the tool the only tool that workers really have to prevent from you know being completely 100 and unilaterally screwed it's just that a lot of the modern rules around unionization are designed to handicap the whole idea of collective bargaining did you hear about the uh schools in california i think it was uh where they were like we should you know collectively bargain and then it was like no that's illegal well maybe but the latest thing is they're fighting not to go back to school because they say that minority children are overly affected by that and that white and oddly enough middle eastern parents are pushing to go back i don't know how the middle eastern parent's been in there but anyway the leader of the union weighed in on that and you know they were talking about it and he was like no this is murder if you go back and then he was caught dropping his kids off at preschool well maybe he doesn't want his kids i wouldn't either that's a good point but when you're in you know a position of power you should have to follow the rules and you should have to follow them to the letter you should have to practice what you preach which is what the u.s navy has failed to do the u.s navy is indeed liable for mass software piracy and appeals court rules so the u.s navy had some software they wanted to use it was a german company and they deployed it and the agreement and it was not there was no signed contract but the the agreement that the court was able to piece together was you can use it but you got to keep track of the licenses and how many licenses you have and then pay for that and so the lower court or the first ruling was well the navy had a right to use it yeah but you never paid the company based on the usage so they had to go to the appeals court and the appeals court said okay the lower court said that you had the right to use it okay that's correct but the right to use it without paying the german software company that's not actually correct you actually should have been keeping track of the licenses so you didn't hold up your end of the bargain and because of that you're liable for software infringement and it was a crazy number of installs it was like 500 000 yeah well they just installed it on all their computers because they didn't want to think about who actually needs it i get it i get it but each of those should have been a license yeah and that's what the court is said which is why that big number is coming out there now of course if you are american and you feel good about this story why that's your money it's going to germany and it's only going to germany because a huge mistake was made by stupid people meanwhile in arizona they are attempting much like california to move the state of the legal system by being the first to legislate on something and there are two particular companies who are very very interested in the outcome of this arizona advances bill forcing apple and google to allow fortnite style alternative payment options the bill hb 2005 opens the door for alternative payment system so basically if you're a developer and you live in arizona and you receive payments from these platforms they would be required to give you an option i think it's if you're a user or a user well a user has the option to pay the developer directly if they reside in arizona yeah so this is the first article where it occurred to me what's really going on here these legislators this is not the first time we saw this remember we reported on this a couple of weeks ago and it's like this is a trend there's a sea change here thing blah blah what's actually happening here is lawmakers are using this as a cudgel with uh apple and google in order to collect sales tax for their state the point of this is not to help the citizens or the developers that live in their state the point of this is to get apple and google to collect sales tax they haven't asked for that yet but that's coming mark my words that would if you had piecemeal state level laws that would make sense but if there's a federal law yeah you wouldn't have to do that so i'm sure the lobbyists are getting plenty of overtime all those states will be like yeah you totally have to use google as your payment option as long as we get our cut because they will get a cut of that if the developer is local to the state for sure so that's not the only thing that states are trying to change when it comes to tech law and this one has to do with the whole like who's liable for an online platform who controls it who decides what is the truth really when you drill down to it this is the ministry of truth digital communication regulation in the colorado general assembly none of these people have read 1984. or they have a copy at home that's highlighted and you know like got little markers in it it's like a great idea great idea definitely do this they talk about misinformation and the usual suspects of like why online free speech is bad and they're saying that if you are a big enough online company you're going to be registering with them you're going to be providing them with stuff at your cost and then you're going to be liable if anything goes wrong against their rules i like how literally nothing we've seen so far addresses the real problem which is that it is very very commercially viable to be dishonest online like it's commercially advantageous it's capitalistically advantageous to be dishonest online none of these things address that head-on but also i think tied in with that and tied him with so many of our problems as a country is mental health yeah because you're never going to eliminate the worst one or two percent who do most of this stuff yeah because they have mental problems and we don't sometimes we elevate them to billionaire status yeah or put them in government we do that a lot across the pond they have some laws that aren't so bad in fact these are actually uh pretty decent at least relatively although kind of a narrow scope for this one eu law requires companies to fix electronic goods for up to 10 years there's a lot of asterisks and gotchas and things that make this completely impractical but um yeah that's the thing it's it only guarantees it for certain appliances right yeah it's like uh tvs tvs washer dryers hair dryers refrigerators i imagine other stuff gets caught up in that but like where's the crossov does it air fryer is that an appliance it's really down to just parts availability and documentation and the thing that you know makes it make sense do we really want you know you you know the old uh motorola phones that you would hold up to your ear and it was like holding a book up to the side of your head it's like do we really want those to still be you know operational like the technology to support that just doesn't make any sense but who decides that was a one of the other kind of disturbing things about this is so there was two big things here obviously documentation which they try to hide and parts availability you have to make parts available for was it 10 years i think but if a part is considered like high uh skill level installation they can then gate that behind state licensing so that only professional shops can get those parts yeah they do that with uh hvac systems but most modern hvac systems are to the point where an idiot can install them you can literally order a mini split system off of ebay that's pre-charged and if you can solder a copper pipe you can install it you don't need to know anything they disagree yeah they do they really do vehemently and like with like spit on you as they're talking to you and in france a similar argument now france has this law and they say that you need to be scored on your repair ability and some companies don't often score very well so they don't like to display that but the french government says uh you will do it the verge has this amazing article apple forced to add iphone and macbook repair ability scores to comply with french law so we've got the screenshot here is of the iphone which amazingly somehow scored a six out of ten it's not that repairable they pointed out how why that was like there's a so you self-report yeah which is come on but there's a bullet list and if you lie you know france is going to nail your balls to the wall so they are very careful to like exactly to the letter do everything they can minimally to get above the five samsung they pointed out buried some stuff on his website somewhere and they got like a point out of that because there was documents on how to do stuff good luck finding it but it's better than nothing i guess we've put it on the internet behind a password and told google never to index this good luck remember when uh when i can when we gave it away when we gave away our power and everybody said listen this is that's not political this just makes sense we would never like just decide who can and cannot be on the internet we would literally never politicize the numbers and names authority of the internet you're crazy if you think the u.s giving this up is a bad idea this is good for the world icann refuses to accredit pirate bay founder peter soon i don't know if i got that right i'm sorry due to his background according to torrent free now torn freak rightly points out that on the accreditation application to become a registrar it asks you know have you ever been involved in criminal fraud well peter soon was convicted of criminal copyright infringement but that is not a fraud crime and so it was rejected and so his commentary on here is like this is basically a cabal and they won't admit me to the club because my past makes them uncomfortable which you know this dry sound effect is is in effect here this is not you know for their own rules that's not a valid rejection reason but you're leaving a lot out i mean he that was the first email was like you lied on your application and so then he successfully argued what you just said about the fraud thing and they were like yeah well we don't like you yeah and we respect copyright in other words you know we're in the pocket of the copyright cabal and um we're just not gonna do it we don't care for you i like copyright too i don't like copyright lasting for a hundred years it should be like a patent how is copyright more valuable than a patent but the other thing here is he started a company that does domain registrations and i think it's becoming fairly successful so it's not just him they're affecting here yeah there's a whole bunch of people that are being affected by this that's arbitrary disgusting also doesn't that doesn't that say with the market well not just the mark that is rigged but there is no path to redemption yeah once a copyright offender you might as well just keep doing it right once a copyright offender you're basically right up there with murderers and blah blah blah you know what we should do we should do some digging because i bet you one of the people that was involved like enron or lehman brothers or somewhere like that i bet you one of them has got some kind of a business that has some kind of an ethical requirement for this and arguably those companies had way way more uh stuff in the fraud category than pirate bay and they're probably like how about the bush family i think there's anything in their past that might prevent them from you know like running a company or a country a little bit of nose candy never hurt anybody i'm not even worried about that so uh the other thing that our glorious leaders are a little bit concerned about and probably rightly so is the arms race and no i'm not talking about military uh you know weapons and that type of thing because we're clearly ahead on that we're talking about yeah we spend so much money i'm sure china is like way closer than they should be considering the the spending deficit well but the thing i'm thinking about is like as soon as we've got really amazing ground to air lasers suddenly our air force doesn't matter i don't think we have those well i don't think anybody does anyway that's not the thing we're talking about we're talking about is the ai china will dominate ai unless the us invests more a commission warns well yeah china's got more people with an iq over 120 than we have people so the more they can educate them and the more that they can drive them to working on stuff like this the more of a problem we're going to have if we measure our economic worth and stuff like that as to what we're doing with ai it's also true you know there's that old saying that uh for all the ills of slavery it does get stuff done and china you know they got the whole uyghur thing and they have a situation where in their school system they can motivate their students by basically you know like threatening their families or telling them that you know lower their social score or cattle product if you want a future you know what you have to do in china and you really have to apply yourself maybe not the case in the u.s because we have more freedom and more of a safety net but do we give that up to win because then does that not mean the whole world becomes a uyghur camp yeah these are questions we are not qualified to answer ultimately i think what they wanted with that story was to get a bunch of tax dollars yeah for ai and chip fabrication and all that kind of stuff which i mean i guess it's probably better than you know spending it on dead technology gender studies yeah it's better than gender studies i think global foundry should like there should just be a matching program like somebody there should be a ledger somewhere and it's like all right we gave 4 billion dollars to gender studies we're just going to cut the check to global foundries right now for 4 billion oh you're such a big china is definitely leading the world in one aspect i don't think anybody else is doing this now everybody's floated some balloons but china is right on the precipice of actually doing it china charges ahead with a national digital currency the electronic chinese yuan you were correct about that it is it's like yuan but you know i don't think the on is i think it's like you wouldn't yeah it's like you say it really fast yeah it's yuan said really fast because i always because i would hear people say it and i was like are you talking about the japanese yen no it's like it's different it's it's got a little bit of the french component because like you know with like french words it's like you have to like you know fruit and your basil so i don't know somehow it's magical but the alternative i guess you know the for the english speakers is remember or remain to be here it's also incredibly difficult did that's it's fine there was a minor mishap off camera anyway oh i didn't change the thing yeah yeah uh china is charging ahead with the national digital currency according to new york times yeah we read that we read the headline oops it's fine um this is sort of fun but the new york times basically copy paste the article from china which reads kind of like propaganda which basically just said hey this is not any different than using you know digital currency the government sent me thirty dollars and i used it to buy some some raymond or something which is my take away from there yeah i know it was just like wow this seems kind of like it's whatever so there's a lottery did you understand that i did you have to register or they just already know who you are i think they already know who you are so randomly some people got 30 bucks and a message is like go spend your 30 bucks and let's see how this works yeah so because we want to track it and you and everything that you do from now on which really doesn't sound a lot different than what we would call in the west a visa gift card except more trackable you know who's got to be a little bit upset about this although i doubt he will voice that fact is uh jack ma it's like i came up with this idea he didn't just come up with it his version is already there everybody's using it it's fine oops poor jack i guess he can console himself with his billions of dollars moving on to security oh wait no this is still government because this is china well it's it's an excellent bridge story except this i don't think this is the bridge maybe it is it is look what i did unintentionally so uh china you know we do blame them for a lot of hacking and they probably do a lot of it they probably deserve it their latest uh target is a big one u.s has issued warning after microsoft says china hacked its mail server program all federal government agencies have until noon friday to download the latest software update to block the uh perpetrator they literally just modified this right before we went live to say that if you haven't patched by now unplug your server and they're serious yeah and that means they probably saw some stuff already now i saw one report on the solarwinds hack that said that they did actually download some source code related to exchange i don't know if they're related but i really think that we should be looking at the whole solarwinds source code did they get source code because this is zero day and zero days in exchange is there actually a relationship there because if it does it suggests some collusion between russia and china or possibly that we got one of those actors wrong or no remember how solar winds had two intrusions could easily be the other one that china came in afterwards and they're like yeah we'll take some of this yeah but if exchange is compromised what do we do uh the cloud version of exchange was somehow hardened so you know your on-premise exchange people that's welcome to your second class citizen experience so microsoft is loving this yeah yeah it's like we're finally going to drive more people to the cloud this is totally not intentional uh that's disgusting although people running exchange on premise they're gotta have a little bit of stockholm syndrome anyway it's that's not the best now that's if you're going to hack or you know attack people digitally sometimes you want to go after microsoft you sometimes you want that big juicy target that's maybe if you've got a nation state behind you because otherwise what are you going to do with that exchange data but if you're just a little ham and egg hacker you know working out of ukraine you might want to pick an easy ripe cherry hanging from the tree who what are they going to do about it really rob for extortion navajo national or navajo nation hospital targeted by large-scale ransomware attack there were a few publicly available details about the hack which highlights how hospital staffers are often caught in the middle of ransomware attacks look hospitals i.t generally a mess this is you know serving not a not an incredibly wealthy hospital let's see 20 000 patients a year and they were almost all navajo yeah so there's not a lot of and not for profit it was subsidized yeah not a lot of cyber security here this is actually one like i don't think that i'm for more government regulation but i think that you know there should be a hotline or something that you could call when you're a hospital to be like hey can i get some help here but see i think this is a situation where it was probably like okay we don't make money and we're working off of subsidy so i have to make a choice here i can cure these little navajo children's tuberculosis or i can upgrade the server yeah what are you gonna do yeah you're gonna be running that surfer on uh bailing wire and duct tape from now until the end of time and you're gonna get ransomware yeah overall that might be worse for the people but when you're in the when you're looking at those kids what are you gonna do yeah well a lot of the time i mean the modern times is that we don't have people with a level of skills to automatically be the defenders in that situation the people are literally helpless there's a threat that they didn't even know was there they're in a high crime neighborhood they don't realize it we should start like a navajo i.t non-profit don't make a ton of money doing that or just just a like a cyber security non-profit and get some federal funding no you just lost all of our funding you have to target it to a special specific disadvantaged group yeah that's how you're going to get that's how that gofundme is going to get sweet and rich the battered women's cyber security i i wouldn't mess with gender right mothers against denial of service has there already been something called mados sometimes hackers do things uh for good remember the guy who was destroying the routers that had been compromised it might as well i'm just sweeping trash off the internet what are you talking about other times they do things for good on the way to doing something bad hackers exploit websites wordpress to give them excellent seo before deploying malware cyber attackers turn to search engine optimization techniques to deploy malware it's like oh you've got a you you run a local salon and spa you just need to deploy some seo things make it come to the top of google and then you can just deploy that malware this is that malware and they're getting so good at it where it tracks the ip traffic so it only infects you the first time you visit and it looks at a variety of things about you to determine if you might be a threat to it and if you are it doesn't show you the malware and uh mine's a little monero in the background you know well it can payload whatever it wants equal opportunity malware true equality well not really because it's it's uh get a little bit of self-preservation there it's profiling basically maybe not racially digitally profiling that's what it's doing to you also uh every once in a while we get these this is definitely just an arms race it lasts for days but i like seeing it it's good hackers release a new jailbreak tool for almost every iphone yeah so the the other takeaway from this is any iphone currently in law enforcement possession now no longer predicted oh oh did it did it lock up well it's not locked but oh yes oh there it goes it's crashing this is not anything new we get this about every six months uh it might in this case i this wasn't mentioned in the article but i read something on a chat room that suggested that they did actually offer this to apple and apple did not want to pay them what they thought it was worth i don't know if that's true or not but since there are transactions like that going on with apple where it's like hey i found some stuff do you want to buy it an apples like no yeah i mean we'll fix it three days after you release it yeah and sure the guys in the basement won't get to go home for a weekend but what do we care yeah that's apple this is an interesting thing um they just did describe this as high tech i don't know if i agree with that no it's not really high tech and it's not really anything new but i guess because of the situation that we're in with the pandemic they're just seeing way more of it popular los angeles restaurant closes after high-tech dine and dash scheme so basically you put in an order and then you say the order never came and you do a chargeback and in one case one of the orders was for 700 but they he picked it up they picked it up they actually came and put down a credit card yeah and just charged it back yep so this is really really terrible credit card processors should be required by law to do more in these situations especially when there's a there's a whole run of chargebacks and investigate the whole thing as a whole a lot of the time this is done algorithmically and in the most half-assed way possible so that restaurant had to shut down and uh they didn't go fund me but they only go funded her debt which was like 60 grand yeah so the restaurant's still not coming back running a restaurant is brutal yeah well especially now yeah remember spectre it's been a long time since we talked about spectre there for a while that's all we talked about if you're a vmware administrator every time you log into vsphere it's like by the way all your servers are crap and the thing about spectre is it was this big story i remember was like oh my god but nothing ever happened and we became complacent again and inevitably first fully weaponized specter exploit discovered online is actually a clickbait headline um a security researcher submitted a couple of pieces of malware that were capable of reading the shadow file on linux which is like where the encrypted passwords are but there's no evidence that these have been used as part of a larger malware campaign well they had a windows one too oh yeah there was a windows version but like you say in the wild does that mean it was actually affecting somebody or yeah yeah so it's maybe not his alarm it's kind of like the whole the spectre thing was always like this it was like the headline came out and everybody was just running around on fire but in reality yeah it's bad but so far nothing's really happened give it time solar winds suffered quite a bit of embarrassment and if they weren't embarrassed enough about losing everybody's data and being the next big company to be synonymous with failure they also had that embarrassing password but solarwinds123 they are not taking responsibility for that former solarwinds ceo blames the intern for solarwinds 123 password leak which signals everything that you need to know about solarwinds as a company and that they're not willing to take responsibility for their stuff and you probably should find another company someone is going to come and buy them and maybe it'll be better but for right now for the tools and the level of expertise they have obviously the people that built the company are no longer there the people that had any idea what they were doing are no longer there and they're probably not a company worth doing business with now here's the question that i had and see if you got any uh more clarification from that article they said that he was responsible for the leak because he put this on github and plain text that part maybe i believe but did does that mean that he was not the one who came up with the password or was he i think that that's a deflection a distraction and it's an excuse so terrible that it's like you know if it weren't for my horse i wouldn't have spent that year in college it's like and now everybody's thinking about just how terrible of a take that is when the reality is that they just this is just they need to suck it up and say you know what we made some mistakes we're making some structural changes to prevent these kinds of mistakes in the future we really learn some stuff they need to have a little bit more humility blaming the interns is not but there's two possibilities i see here either you let the intern come up with the password which is probably not good because this was a high-level password it let them get to everything or you came up with a terrible password and then gave it to an intern who then leaked it on the internet so there is no path where you did the right thing there i don't think and there were some process failures that ultimately resulted in an intern doing what interns do in in some ways the intern helped them harden their infrastructure they learned some things the intern was their black swan event and they can learn from that that's how you read team i bet that intern does not exist yeah microsoft has for a while now been decrying the end of the password they want alternative authentication and they want your identity to be immune to all this leak stuff how do you do it well their plan involves that beautiful keyword that everybody loves right now blockchain microsoft's dream of decentralized ids enters the real world the company will launch a public preview of its identification platform in the spring and has already tested it at the uk's national health service basically you're carrying around a token that gets more stuff added to it constantly so you can't steal it because nobody has the current version of that token except for you so basically what they're doing is they're setting up your entire identity to operate the same way that facebook operates isn't that exciting and i imagine when you submit that token to various places online they will not track that definitely will not track that how horrifying is it going to be when you go into the hospital and they're like you know welcome to the hospital and it's like oh we're a modern hospital we don't need to see your insurance card or anything like that just log in with facebook on the terminal here or you walk into the hospital and they're like please step onto the green conveyor and then the green conveyor just sends you back to the parking lot because you don't have insurance and you didn't have to tell anybody about that they already knew but our healthcare system as uh dismal as it is i mean it is it's bad maybe not as bad as jamaica's maybe we're just a little higher than them still jamaica's jam co almost said the headline pulled offline after third security lapse exposed travelers data so you gotta you gotta have proof of immune immunization you gotta do the contact tracing the contact tracing is the real big one here because that's where they lost so much people's personal information because it was all loaded into this thing that was horribly insecure and probably built by an intern sorry interns well they mentioned the firm that built it their interns like they actually did hire somebody to do it but uh you this was the kind of thing where i think if you you could manipulate the url yeah so you could get whatever just you could just guess and get people's information and included where they were staying during their quarantine so you could get somebody killed with this pretty easily yeah and it was all the foreign travelers nice this was also i think last month they leaked to the entire database insecure database setup so they lost their database they recovered from that and then they found out that the whole thing was on the web anyway oops i wish i could do a jamaican accent so i could make a joke about that but i can't i think that would have us end up being canceled oh you might be right if krista were here she could get away with it i think probably what's because of her jamaican heritage that's fine and finally our last story in security um if you'll think back during the pandemic when we started talking about a vaccine and people were like man i don't know about this vaccine stuff because the thing i'm worried about is you're going to treat me different if i don't get this and they haven't really been tested a lot and uh well we got some questions and they're like you're out of your mind track you for getting a vaccine are you stupid we would never do that that's crazy we just want you to get it we just have to flatten this curve that's all that matters and now the vaccines are rolling out and we get this headline cvs and walgreens looking for big data reward from all the vaccinations here's the alternative headline that i would have gone with cvs and walgreens looking to exploit the data they've collected from giving people vaccinations now this wall street journal article is not painting this in the light of wow that's bad yeah they're painting this in the light of oh are you a cvs or a walgreens investor because they're really going to make as much as they can out of this data they even pointed out that cvs noted in one of their investor calls the number of people who had never filled a subscription or prescription at cvs but did get the vaccination they're like look at all these new customers we can engage with we can market to these people yep it's great yeah yeah yep try to if you've got a small local pharmacy try to deal with them instead going through this because they don't have the they don't have the big data they also point out that if you want to get this vaccine like just walking in and be like all right here's my insurance no no you register they have to have a phone number they have to text you you have to confirm so they're picking up all these data points as they go along yeah and they're keeping it and again like if you can go for the small pharmacy because they're not going to be able to do anything with that data once everything's done well let's sell it to cvs that's all we got for this one what do we got tomorrow tomorrow we got business and i don't remember neat we'll see you tomorrow without krista and it's time for me to move on to my going into the hard stuff huh delicious root beer delicious non-alcoholic root beer see ya i was going to say is there such thing as alcoholic root beer but there's alcohol like everything yes yeah hard mike's hard lemonade kind of thing yeah i had some of that strongbow stuff it was really good that's the apple stuff yeah yeah yeah alcoholic apple juice is delicious but the sugar content and the alcohol content i find that's a bad combination it's a i got a little bit of a headache after an hour so i don't like things that mess with my head that much it's the difference and for me there's no reason to do the first one it's the difference between enjoying alcohol and abusing alcohol yeah and i go right to the second one because why else would you drink poison sometimes it helps you poop we're definitely ending on that\n"