Europe Is Paying To Be Sick. Nobody Is Paying To Prevent It.

The President of Finland secretly showed up at an amateur triathlon last week under a fake name. He swam, cycled, ran. Finished second. Nobody knew who he was until it was over.That story is the opening of this episode — because it sits in sharp contrast to what the EU data says about how Europe actually manages the health of its people. The EU spends 3.7% of its healthcare budget on prevention and 13% on pharmaceuticals. If every EU citizen exercised 150 minutes a week, it would prevent 10,000 deaths annually and save €8 billion. Germany takes an average of 14–15 sick days per employee per year — nearly double the EU average. And the government's response? The Karenztag debate: make the first sick day unpaid. Punish people for being sick instead of incentivising them not to be.Plus: why signing up for something with a date changes everything. And a quick announcement about The Zoo — a Hyrox simulation on August 22nd in Charlottenburg.Never Start Over Again is your weekly Monday reset — hosted by Rickard Long.