Watching Your Health

I have a minor health problem, and I'd like to look it up. Going to a corporate health clinic just results in some tests to determine which other tests they'll hand out next so that they can make a menu, and ask the patient to pick. Since I'd have to pick from a menu of tests, I may as well look things up myself now, before paying.

Once anyone starts searching for their health problems, umpteen trackers and spiders and all manner of eyes turn to face the inquirer, find their entry in a dozen databases, and put labels on them. The labels might raise prises for health insurance, or alter health plans, or may do nothing. Nobody knows what their labels are, or what they do. We only know that we all have a name in a dozen databases, and our entries get labels when we search for things. So I'd best use the Tor Browser and avoid those labels.

Armed with super-tech knowledge and a brilliant browser, I can search here and there about my new health problem. The first site looks like obvious bot-generated slop, so we can ignore it. The second has links to some Tarot-healing articles. By the third I can't say one way or another. I can tell you about spam scams and what's not-really-a-journal, but I can't say if all medical sites link to official journals. And if they do, I can't use that source, as journals have paywalls. Perhaps they should link to Wikipedia? But I can barely read those articles on biology, so it would hardly help.

This is far too much work for someone who's not very well. So I'm going to just lie down and ignore it.

It's probably fine anyway.