Just saw a news item that a woman was arrested for stabbing a hospital worker yesterday, and the “worker was able to return to work hours after the incident.” That’s fortunate, but I think if you get stabbed at work you should get the rest of the day off.
@JillianMHurley
Henry VII (Henry Tudor) mother was 12 when he was born. Never had another child despite two more marriages because she was injured during his delivery.
@hottamali02
Are you stupid? Crash test dummies are primarily men sized which doesn’t account for women and forces on them or safety belts for smaller people.
I think we should normalize people being okay with masking on public transport and extra HEPA air filters everywhere. Am I a doomer? No I just think it’s amazing we learned how to kill the flu, at least for a while.
@benryanwriter
@carryonfolks
fetish account more than influencer I would say, either way, good for her if that’s her bag, but hardly “tradwife” really.
I’m now being chloroquine-splained. Chloroquine was in my first pharmacology book in medical school 22 years ago, flubros. Don’t let my bright smile and lack of wrinkles fool you.
@DispondentDavey
@RayRedacted
My sister’s husband was a fireworks enthusiast and his club stuck a few of his ashes in the biggest firework they make and blew him up over the desert.
[many expletives deleted] Mom is in the hospital with COVID pneumonia. She is triple vaxxed but is 80 and was in a skilled nursing facility following a stroke. She was recovering from the stroke until last couple days. Dad was only visitor so she must have been infected by staff.
@pourteaux
My kids toes! Saw the dermatologist yesterday morning on Telehealth. She says we all had COVID in Feb. Both girls affected...we’re all well now (no tests available for non hospitalized when we had other symptoms)
@DrJenGunter
My great grandmother, Jessie Skelton Butler, died of an ectopic pregnancy, leaving two young children. She was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of her college. One of the first women to do so.
Coffee studies are fun because people who drink more coffee tend to smoke more, drink more alcohol, exercise less, and do all sorts of unhealthy things so the healthy user bias that plagues most dietary research is absent.
Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day was linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee.
• 27% lower all-cause mortality - ground coffee
• 11% lower all-cause mortality - instant
• 14% lower all-cause mortality - decaf
@RadioFreeTom
I went to Trader Joe’s in Massachusetts, and there was social distancing, a cleaned cart, a squirt of hand sanitizer on entry, universal masking, and no whining.
If you go out into public, wear a mask. A doubled over bandanna. Anything will help. This is how we get out of this quarantine sooner. This is how we move forward. Wash the mask, wash your hands.
You should see what we dress them in during the cold winters here. I’m amazed they survived the mental shock of wearing a scarf over their little faces 🙄
I talked to a police officer today. He said a child was shot and killed in Florida. The child had covid after blood testing.
He was marked as a covid death.
If this is true, this madness must stop.
My husband was telling me some advice he got from his manager at his McDonalds job at age 16: “Remember someone always has another person they feel safe confiding your secret to.”
@J2tellem
@sparksjls
Reminds me of this story of the guy who had NONE as his plates, and he got a ton of tickets mailed to him because when police ticketed a car with no plates they wrote NONE
Has anyone else noticed a steady decline in productivity? Back in March I was exercising every day and eating really well, and now it takes me 3 days of planning to mail a letter.
It’s perfectly fair to require health care workers, fire fighters, police, EMS who have close contact with vulnerable to get vaccinated and wear masks during the pandemic. You signed up to serve and protect.
Good ventilation and air filters works for every variant and flu and all the other droplet and airborne nasties. It's not 100% but large scale could improve lives and decrease winter health costs to the system by a lot.
@elaine_stritch
wasn’t that the whole point. He was trying to embarrass and humiliate the company and highlight Christine as the only one with any talent.
55 of 89 attendees at high intensity fitness classes got COVID. They were spaced and brought own or used own cleaned equipment, gym 25% capacity, but masks not required during exercise
Fwiw getting a successful vaccine out at global scale within 15 months of the first appearance of this thing will be one one the greatest scientific achievements in history 🙏🏻
Dear everyone: yes we really needed to shut down everything in March/April/May 2020. We didn’t have good testing and it was spreading out of control and already brought NYC to its knees and very nearly overwhelmed Massachusetts hospitals.
It’s not judgmental to say that if you get hospitalized with COVID and had the opportunity to be vaccinated and didn’t do it, it’s your fault. Doesn’t mean there aren’t mitigating factors and empathy but it’s just a fact.
As Florida hits another COVID hospitalization record, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) defends the unvaccinated who are getting sick:
“I’m sick of the judgmental stuff … Nobody’s trying to get ill here.”
@Swilua
there's a whole psych overlap that is poorly studied too (I'm not saying that PCOS is in your head I'm saying PCOS is correlated with anxiety, insomnia, depression etc)
Thank you OptumRx for refusing to fill a generic FDA approved medication for my patient's condition because I didn't respond to the faxed PA questions fast enough MAYBE BECAUSE OUR OFFICE IS CLOSED AND I GET FAXES ONCE A WEEK BECAUSE THERE IS A GODDAM GLOBAL PANDEMIC GOING ON
Prasad blocked me because I told him he was a dick 🤷🏻♀️ and his bad takes were on days ending with y. So my take on the Atlantic article is…he’s a dick and it’s a day ending in y.
reminder that measles infections wipes the immune system of former memory, leaving the child vulnerable to repeat infections from other preventable illnesses. Vaccination prevents this.
1/n Birmingham Children’s Hospital inundated with measles cases. Keep in mind that not long ago measles was the single leading killer of young children globally. That’s why we vaccinate. The measles-mumps-rubella MMR vaccine is both safe and effective.
@IwriteOK
It’s women who are constantly scanning for threats. What do you do at the gas station? Do you wonder who might approach you or take advantage?
@MollyJongFast
I can’t prevent them from running into the wood chipper, and I don’t have any emotional energy left for them. It’s all for their loved ones and health care workers.
@GeogCynthia1
@keithboykin
It’s not just the doctor. You need to get an operating room and an anesthesiologist and nurses and surgery assistants and a scheduler and if it’s not a legal procedure and you could all get your license taken away or sued…
#IRefuseToApologizeFor
supporting pro-life policies & efforts to restore a culture of life in our country, where every human life is respected and protected as a precious gift from God.
#prolife
@jaketapper
One observational study that contradicts the findings of several well-run randomized controlled trials, which are a higher standard of evidence. Please reconsider.
I have to say even people I know up here in highly vaccinated Massachusetts have a hard time finding nursing aids for home health who are vaccinated. Its a big hole in the societal protection for the vulnerable.
The data is unequivocal…vaccinated can still spread COVID but for fewer days and less likely and lower levels than unvaccinated. Multiple studies have shown this. Other studies are of one time point and didn’t do infectious assays and are otherwise misinterpreted.
@MollyJongFast
“highly effective at preventing severe disease” means no one who tested positive after 7 weeks post vaccine (when full immunity response is achieved) was hospitalized. This is terrific news.
@notcapnamerica
One time I flew out of Dallas with my kids...turbulence was crazy, the overhead bins were opening up and dumping stuff...I was aisle next to my little one and the older one at the window was crying...a lady in the row upfront grabbed her hand and prayed with her.
Doctors in 1918 tried high dose aspirin, quinine, arsenic, camphor oil, digitalis, strychnine, Epsom salts and castor oil, and when none of these helped, fell back on bloodletting.
Tweeps: I follow many various people with many views, some objectionable. Some of this is for work so I can see what various segments of society are focused on for discourse. If you try to shame me for my follows, you will be blocked. Get a life.
Melbourne, Australia:
Sarah Kelly, a 22-year old Covid patient with Down Syndrome was admitted to hospital.
She needed help to breathe — but was fearful of the nasal mask.
Then
@TheWiggles
found out - and sent her a video.
It saved her life...
Well I’ve been labeled white supremacist for suggesting different cultures and languages have difficulty with pronunciation of other languages and we should be gracious and open to learning new ways of speaking and saying words and names.
I mean, we’ve learned some things. Or relearned them. We can use our knowledge for health strategies for future winters, we can filter air better in building codes. This is a good thing! Not doomerism.