You remind me of a friend of mine who is Navajo. We were discussing the most recent Radiolab episode where a Lakota Sioux mentions how it’s better that his nation doesn’t keep written records because it can adjust to change better than a nation like ours with a constitution. My friend’s response? “How’d that work out…

Let’s not forget why hospitals are rationing PPE and weren’t prepared for a pandemic despite years of evidence that one would occur: hospital administration is more interested in profits than doing the right thing. We and our insurance pay out the ass for medical care, and yes doctors make $$$ and malpractice…

The gun thing was very sad. It was sad for me and for my neighborhood that a children’s park could be used for such nefarious things. On the regular there were hypodermic needles, homeless encampments, used condoms, and bullets. There’s a lot to unpack there like systemic poverty, gentrification, injustice, lack of…

I received no punishment whatsoever :) 

Not small at all. And my company was very large and on the other side of town

At my old house in downtown denver, on one side I bordered a public park that was the location of several murders, we even had a couple guns thrown in our yard, one of which our daughter (age 1) found. But that’s not my worst neighbor story. My worst neighbor was the guy who lived on the other side of us. He ignored…

We mountain towns do have lots of orthopedists...probably not the doctor you want treating Covid though! 

Unless they worked for The Weather Channel

Agreed. I’m in a sort of mountain town and our cases are directly tied to second home owners fleeing California. I certainly am lucky to be in a nice place for the quarantine with a home, plenty of recreation, and the ability to isolate myself, and I know it would be horrible to be in NYC for this, but NYC can handle…

Martha Stewart has been a true hero in this pandemic. She’s mixing helping with staying on brand. Someone called her out for posting about her product line asking what she’s done to help abc she resolutely responded about the care home she opened with Mt Sinai. She also posts on IG with the spelling, photo quality,…

Completely understand. I believe some hospitals are using UV to sanitize PPE and some lab studies have shown that properly sanitizing reusable PPE can kill the coronavirus, but I think there’s a difference between my anesthesiologist friend in Utah being told to reuse her standard issue N95 mask for multiple days…

From a legal perspective, this will be interesting. Gunnison County, CO, home of one of the highest cases per capita and a hospital that is so small it doesn’t even have a pediatrician, closed to second home owners a while ago. It also did the same thing during the Spanish Flu, so it’s not unprecedented. But I think a…

Thank you for this, as a person dealing with infertility. My clinic’s entire staff was furloughed and they aren’t contributing to Covid care so they’re just sitting around unemployed, our hospital has enough PPE (thanks to a local outdoor goods company creating reusable PPE), and our state has (fingers crossed)…

I’m not sure why you’ve commented so many times on everything I’ve said. I’ve made it clear I take this pandemic seriously. We all do. But we can be sad about the things we’ve lost too. I didn’t sign that petition and I wouldn’t but there are situations where it’s complicated, people have put a lot on the line to…

Like I said before, having children is the epitome of hope, believing that there could be a future for this world. I didn’t say I’m smarter than you or whatever, so not sure where your snip about “advanced lawyer satire” came from because my post literally said that was tongue in cheek as I said it. You seem to have a…

That’s why I said it was tongue in cheek... wanting to have kids is the ultimate expression of hope that the world isn’t so bad. It’s the reason people in war zones and refugee camps still procreate. Insteas of saying that, what I did say was a flippant way for me to respond to all the “people shouldn’t have kids…

Thanks so much. I am happy to sacrifice for the greater good here but appreciate the acknowledgment you mention. I hope to god not twins. I would have loved a 2 for 1 the first time but not the second time!

You’re right but that sort of complication would arise well after the peak point of cases in the US. The complications that occur early may require a pill abortion, or routine monitoring, but rarely more than that

Thank you. There’s worse things happening right now than not having a baby but this specific article is about not having a baby. People can be doing everything right (social distancing, not hoarding, etc) and still be upset they can’t have a baby because of this

Wow! Procrastination? Did you meet your husband at 25, start trying at 28 and get pregnant before 30? If not, you’ve definitely fucked up and it’s your fault. People can’t always start trying early enough to gave the time advantage. It can also take a long time to save up for fertility treatments. Or they could be on…