Yes, because, fires aside, it’s really creepy to fixate on the immature genitalia of an unborn child. Forcing friends and family to attend a “party” to join you in your obsession is weirder. Finally, calling it a “gender” reveal party is weird af since gender is one thing you have no damn clue about before the actual…

Yeah this logic, or lack thereof, is driving me bananas. If you’re 80 and get in a car accident, you’re way more likely to die than a 20 year old. Your bones are more brittle, you’re more likely to be on blood thinners, you cannot tolerate blood loss as well... That doesn’t mean an 80 year old who dies after getting…

I’m an emergency doctor. I’ve shown up for work since this pandemic began. I show up even though I found out a month in that I’m pregnant, and exposure increases my miscarriage risk. I show up even though the repeated exposures mean I haven’t hugged my family in months, or ever touched my now 4 months old nephew. I…

The decision to stall on disbursing money to tribal governments is ugly beyond belief. The Navajo Nation has a worse per capita death rate than Brooklyn. I work in one of the adjacent hospitals, and I don’t know a single Native person who hasn’t lost a handful of family members. The reservation is about to go into yet…

When I was an infant my single mother made her money as a potter. She had some commercial commissions, but mostly hustled doing trade shows in NY, often in the parks during good weather months. Being without affordable child care, she’d just put a blanket down behind the table and set me on it with a few toys, turning…

Emergency doctor here. Fentanyl is more of a respiratory depressant (can make you so sleepy you stop breathing, basically a synthetic and more potent version of heroin), which can lead to cardiac arrest. However, generally someone enough under the influence to stop breathing wouldn’t be as alert as George Floyd…

I think one problem is that they think their constituents are really, really stupid. It takes time for the virus to spread, and then it takes time for people to become symptomatic. Therefore they can open now, and not see the shit reeeeally hit the fan for 2 weeks or so. Given that Trump can change his position…

Wow, I was wondering what was causing the “redistribution of mentals within the body.” Mystery solved.

Surprisingly most hospitals are furloughing staff currently unless they are actively in surge. Most hospitals have cancelled elective procedures, non-essential lab draws, and in-person office visits. Most people are also not coming in to the ED for stupid stuff they generally would, like ingrown toenails, stomach pain…

Feel free to tell your mother, from an active emergency room and tent worker, that is complete bullshit.

With you 100%. I’m an ED doctor, in an area that’s heating up very, very quickly. My loathing for the CDC recommendations right now is so strong that every time I think about it bile rises in my throat. There isn’t enough equipment. I understand my job and its necessity and will work anyway. However, the BARE MINIMUM…

Counterpoint, if you get past the having more space and the blessing of being able to truly self-isolate without fear of poverty I think it might kinda suck to be a rich person at home. Your life is designed around having other people do all your shit for you, which means when this strikes you’re at home with NOTHING…

Meh, most of them will likely go the way of Air Canada and offer the loan of free ipads pre-loaded with the available content, which honestly makes more sense to me because they’re easier to maintain.

I think you’re looking for: “the pleural of anecdote is not anecdata.” No idea where it comes from but I use it all the time in medicine.

Exactly, I mean I too am excited to stop our slow slouch forward and instead return to needing to have guides like the Green Book so that we can all know where our kind is and is not welcome.

I don’t think that spending most of their formative years grinding out grades and accruing debt wildly instead of learning about budgeting, 401Ks, and other sensible things helps much either. In general, and I say this with fondness in my heart (also a doctor), doctors seem to be pretty bad at most things besides…

Accurate (I’m a doctor). Also yes to the IT comment for doctors below although in our defense, rarely do people say, “I want to spend 11+ years in school, ostensibly to help people, but then waste >66% of my time nowhere near patients filling out forms and searching futilely for actual information on computer programs…

But, but, I thought heterosexual marriage was so sacred and irrevocable and important - isn’t that why the homosexuals can’t have it? Mind blown, Sarah Palin.

I think it’s basically “poor white”, i.e. prior indentured servants, etc.

Watching Trump bluster endlessly about Hurricane Dorian and Alabama is so very painful.