You are literally just describing a government

I’ll never understand why middle managers care so much.

Trying their hardest to help the companies bottom line which doesn’t even help them

Ya, I’d also disagree.

The big part like other have mentioned is it’s a Noir detective series written from the thoughts a ~25 year old man (at the start) who has almost no “dating life”. Later books when the pov matures and short stories from other perspectives (including a dog) are way different.

Also it’s a fantasy series and he is regularly interacting with literal sex vampires, magically beautiful Fae, and more. Pointing out the attraction and how you have to fight to stay focused while dealing with them is part of the plot.

That said, it also isn’t perfect. There are still some time where it goes a bit overboard in my opinion

Insurance will cover it if it is cheaper than expected long term costs of not having the shot. Paying $10k a year (after you pay the first $5k deductible of course) is lot cheaper than paying for long hospital stays, limb amputations, and other infection related issues.

I’m sure the companies making the shot will set the price to just below the calculated long term costs of not getting the shot.

That’s the “joy” of privatized medicine. Pharma companies set high prices, to suck as much money from insurance as they can. Hospitals set high prices to suck as much money from insurance (and patients) as they can. Then the insurance companies set prices to suck as much money from people as they can.

Executives everywhere get rich and the public all gets poorer and gets poor access to healthcare that costs too much.

Ya that sucks for people who can only afford the old car they have.

You know what else sucks even more? 4000 people dying a year from pollution. Cars need to be disincentivized and public transit/bikes needs to be funded and incentivized. A fee to pollute the air other people have to breath seems relatively minor compared to people dying because of the pollution.

I mean, those are literally the laws for Chicago.

That doesn’t mean people obey the laws. It’s like cars with speed limits, or trucks with weight limits, or noise limits on vehicles, or any other number of things that are regulated but not regularly enforced.

It’s hard to enforce a lot of regulations, including a speed limit on an electric bike. Especially when it can be sold as an electric bike where the limit is only digitally set and you can just turn the limiter on/off. But any sort of other regulation on motor size is gonna be equally silly. A motor that can go 30 mph for a 100 pound woman might only be able to go 20 mph with a 300 pound man carrying deliveries.

I mean, I can only speak for my city/state confidently.

But if it has pedals and is electric it will be treated as an e-bike. It will have classifications based on top speed unassisted, but it can be an artificial limit.

Which to me is a huge benefit. Ebikes don’t have insurance, registration, or license requirements. And can be on bike lanes. The top speed of 25 mph isn’t ideal always, but in a city you rarely would be going faster and being able to use bike lanes and paths more than makes up for the speed reduction.

So it can legally be an electric bike and ride in bike lanes without motorcycle license. Depending on top speed.

Since it has pedals it’s will likely legally be an electric bike. Which various states and cities already have laws for. Most are related to “top speed” which classifies and regulates them accordingly. Usually 20-25 mph unassisted is the limit.

But if this goes faster they could also just have a way to switch on artificial limits. Set the scooter to bike mode and it can only go 25 mph but is legal in bike lanes and without a motorcycle license. Set it to scooter mode and it can go faster but legally you need what you would need for an electric motorcycle.