I can’t blame them, I took my toddler to the National Museum of Natural History, and the takeaway was “I saw a big dinosaur poop”

I don’t necessarily object to him sending the stuff over there - after all, if China were able to stamp it out quickly, the likelihood of it spreading over here would be lower. The issue seems to be that there was no strategic vision - nobody with any decision making power seemed to have any idea of what we had in…

I’m legitimately worried that the COVID19 situation is going to be used for some serious census fuckery by the the Republicans (even more than the usual), but at the same time very impressed by how many people are working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen. Got a message from my barber a few days ago- his business…

Ben Franklin was an exceptional polymath who shared his ideas in publications and letters to colleagues and contributed to vigorous and fruitful scientific debate. He didn’t create a 1700s version of an app to find a prostitute to help you electrocute yourself to make the syphilis go away. 

I totally agree that interdisciplinary interactions are key to a lot of the scientific advances we take for granted. That’s why historically and currently there have been so much government and private investment in bringing together people from very unrelated disciplines to help facilitate these kinds of…

The harm is people like this genius needing medical attention at a time when medical resources are occupied with other things. And some well-intentioned attempts to help can have unintended consequences. One of my friends works in an urgent care, and they got a batch of donations of “reusable” hand-sewn masks with…

While I appreciate that everyone has used their WFH time to get google university degrees in epidemiology and critical care medicine, people just need to leave the expert shit to people with actual expertise. We don’t need every bored person with some intelligence and money doing the COVID19 version of the Elon Musk…

Was the Bud Light knight buried next to the bottles?

I’m a bit conflicted about this. On one hand, the end of med school is basically just an expensive waste of time, and it’s nice to see that these students want to help. But they’re going to become the grunts at the bottom of the totem pole who (along with nurses) will face a lot of demands with few protections. Fully…

If only there was a government agency focused on disease control and prevention to provide reputable information, perhaps at regular briefings given by this “presidential” leader you’ve dreamed up

Yea I feel like it’s going to be a huge disaster for the EMS community and all the focus on doctors and nurses ignores that (source: doctor and former EMT-basic). In other countries, EMTs and paramedics are being equipped with respirator at a minimum and full body hazmat suits in a lot of the cases. Here I think at…

And after you’re done, you can just join the nearest water gun fight

Nah, he’s just going to deploy poor people to manually ventilate patients with a little squeeze bag, in exchange for their unemployment benefits. Without PPE of course!

So while other countries have widespread testing and containment efforts, we basically have an online tool to tell you to either get fucked or call your doctor (who will tell you to go to the hospital to die or tell you to get fucked). America is just winning so hard these days I can’t even take it. 

I hear all the Republican politicians who think the old people should sacrifice themselves for the greater good are signing “do not intubate” orders for themselves, refusing PPE, and are volunteering to hand-ventilate the sick patients to save money on ventilators. Anything for the greater good!

I’m OK with the Republicans pushing this point of view as long as they all sign do not intubate orders for themselves and refuse all PPE. It’s always easy to make sacrifices on behalf of others

But won’t someone please think of the virtue-signalers? 

I wish someone would take a giant coronavirus shit inside this man’s gasmask. 

Fucking around with dangerous wild animals really seems to be an American white people thing. My very unscientific survey of my friends and people I shared that video with shows that immigrants and non-white people would also get the fuck out of there

I saw that and it made me very upset. I will not be trusting these people will my breakfast