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??? why is RFK Jr. going to the doctor for a surgery when he could simply eat a variety of weird meats at his injury
To the contrary, I appreciate late diagnosed lower support needs autistic people b/c they add so much to our understanding.
And also, if he has to hate Muslims for being anti-gay, could he really stop there? Wouldn't he need to want practitioners of other religions who *also* hate gays? Including (or esp) those that predominate US politics, & make his being gay harder than Muslims ever will?
Schrodingers war. Simultaneously very complete and just beginning.
Fine for a thought experiment. Not ok for actual war 🤦🏻♂️
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
Green energy is too expensive, amirite
Not 4D chess...
So, it wasn't "immunity debt" after all! Whodathunkit?
(I did. We knew from measles that this was a predictable result from viral infection, and the US had very little resembling true lockdowns).
The GOP would rather spend trillions in an unnecessary and unpopular foreign war than a penny on people like us. And I use "like us" liberally. It describes the 99% of us who don't have billions to throw around to keep them in power.
The notion that medicine wants people sick collapses under the slightest glance at history.
@terrysimpson.bsky.social
#medsky
Tired of unqualified hacks running the U.S. public health system? I sure am.
Sometimes it feels like there is nothing we can do to fight this.
But right now, we can write letters to our Senators to oppose Casey Means as Surgeon General to prevent yet another quack from gaining power.
KRAS is the key to defeating not just pancreatic cancer, but also many other fatal adenocarcinomas with origins in many other organs. This is truly groundbreaking stuff that has the power to change and save lives.
This is *really* cool. But PLEASE do not handle bats! Especially if the bat appears sick/is not flying away. There are too many cases of people handling sick bats and then getting, worst case, rabies which is 99.999% fatal.
What a stain on UCSF. High pick me energy from what should be a premiere institution of higher learning.
Me too! It just shows the depth of the antivaxx cult, IMO. And I say that as a person who was so excited for the new vaccine technology that I was in the Moderna COVID Phase II trial. B/c as a layperson, I saw the tremendous potential.
Man who never had to listen to "no" faces consequences of his choices.
There's a reason we have the vaccines we do folks! It's because the diseases they prevent are actually PRETTY TERRIBLE. Much harder to communicate, get info back then, but these were the diseases out of all of them scientists chose to prevent. It's because they're supremely unpleasant!
Our 1st family vacation was Disneyland last October. It was ONLY possible b/c of the Disability Access Pass.
I really hope they don't change the current policy. It's the only way some ppl will get to be a princess & meet Mickey. When you're little, that matters a lot! share.google/xZS6yJ4hnsWj...
Also, for many, many reasons, home care is sometimes not an option. And facility space is already way, WAY too limited.
Please think carefully before you deploy “home care is less expensive than a facility/institution“ messaging in this moment because the fairly obvious next move from Paragon/HHS/CMS is to say “that’s absolutely right, which is why we have to crack down on facility reimbursement rates”
Is he antivaxx enough *now* for the media to drop the pretense and just call him antivaxx?
This will, however, allow the senior memory home worker, the nurse administering mom's chemo, or the neonatologist or janitor working in the NICU w/your already critical newborn bring in diseases they can't fight off.
If successful, this will usher tragedies into the lives of all our families. 5/5
AND it's UNNECESSARY in Arizona for school children. We have medical exception (good), and "religious and personal beliefs" exceptions. You sign a paper that says you don't want your kids to be vaccinated, and the school has to let them in anyway, health of the other kids be damned. 4/
To be clear: medical ethics already prohibit medical professionals from TREATING a patient who is capable of making their own decisions against their will (or their caregiver). So this is not a "medical freedom" bill. Its *only* conceivable application is against vaccine requirements. 3/
Information on the proposed constitutional amendment, HCR's supporters, legislators who don't want more measles encephalitis (brain swelling) in babies, and news/opinion pieces are available here. 2/
fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/...
AZ's "Freedom to get Sick and Die" HCR 2056 can still be stopped. Write and call your state senators. Let them know that you are pro science, anti disease. 🧵
Contact info is available here:
www.azleg.gov/findmylegisl.... 1/
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
I had friends whose parents were in NYC, & we all got updates on the towers falling in an all-school auditorium. And we went back to class.
Gen Z and alpha are raised with lockdown drills, and too many have experienced one (or more) shoptings. It's not just hypothetical for the "woke" generations.
This #WomensHistoryMonth, it's important to remember that the disability rights movement would not be where it is today without so many women, ranging from Pat Wright to Judith Heumann to Marca Bristo to Chai Feldblum.