God damn, you’re an idiot.

Also we want to make sure the vaccine is safe and effective in the average individual before giving it to pregnant people, who are considered one of the special groups for clinical trials.

I have no doubt in my mind these people truly believe this. Just because you hold leftist ideals doesn’t preclude being a raging sexist. Consider how many male Marxists never think to clean their own house if there’s a woman there to do it for them. Some far left politicians and political candidates have been willing…

I know this is a bizarre thing to comment on in your story, but the horse hair in the walls isn’t actually that weird, since people used to use it to make plaster walls a lot stronger and less liable to crack. The horse hair was used to reinforce the plaster and allowed for greater flexibility of the plaster when…

Safety testing. We need to make sure it’s safe for kids. You need to prove it’s fine for adults, then for older children (12-18), then for younger children, and farther down, depending on how young we’re going to give it to people. I can’t remember the guidelines exactly, but I think there are more restrictions the…

The J&J vaccine has excellent protection against the variants. There’s an ongoing study for doing a boost, but the vaccine does what it’s supposed to do with a single shot. It was tested at a different point in the pandemic than Pfizer and Moderna, so we can’t directly compare the results from the clinical trials yet.…

I thought the comic acknowledged the existence of trans people? Wasn’t there at least a mention at some point of someone’s friend or lover dying because they were a trans woman? I could have sworn there was a conversation in the section where Yorick is chatting with people at the Washington Memorial. I also have a…

Obviously they’re referencing China’s history with opium. However, I highly doubt it wasn’t also a reference to Marx, given that the ruling government is the Chinese Communist Party. The “opiate of the masses” quote is one of the more common-knowledge ones and honestly tracks with the point being made a bit better…

You do realize that for a hell of a lot of chronic illnesses, medication is the treatment, right? Like, I can think of several off the top of my head that require constant, lifetime medication.

Thank you for missing my entire point. Some notes:

The tension between medical ethics and the public good is what I was referring to. It’s unethical—as a doctor—to perform a procedure on someone without obtaining the appropriate consent. Vaccination is generally enforced by requiring people to have certain kinds for employment or going to school, etc., since it is a…

For sure, but that’s also a different scenario. She was arrested because she refused to stop working as a cook despite being a known carrier of typhoid. I was specifically only talking about medical ethics. Legally, however, you can bar people from participating in society if they are a risk to public health, which is…

Wow, you’ve again stumbled upon why this is one of the most frustrating problems in medical ethics.

Welcome to one of the most frustrating problems of medical ethics, because it’s unethical to force medical treatment on anyone who does not consent to it.

Wouldn’t Dash Con be worse than a McDonald’s ball pit?

That’s kind of what I assumed, personally. Some of the “zips” looked a lot more like a series of hooks and eyes, given the way the fabric was pulling in some of the dresses. I don’t make period clothing typically, but I made a (cosplay) coat a couple years back that had one section pull like that because of a closure.

I’m not talking about the whiter bit there. That could be from some sort of lining or inferfacing or even just that part of the fabric pattern hitting the light a bit differently. I’m talking about the actual fabric pattern. You can see clear transitions where there are seams and darts such as where the gold pattern…

The vertical lines on the back of that dress are darts, though. You can tell by the pattern on the fabric, and the horizontal lines on the back are from seams from a band of material, which is also clear from the fabric pattern?

That all the Democrats in the US Senate could walk out, and there would still be a quorum to conduct business. Thus, the Democratic senators cannot do what the Texan Democratic senators did, because instead of gumming up the system, it would be handing it over to the Republicans without contest.

Which means what was said wasn’t actually a joke and is instead just a shitty comment made by an asshole. I’m genuinely astounded that anyone working in a healthcare setting would hold those sorts of opinions, and I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this sort of nonsense. I’m pretty sure if the three people you’re…