Again, thanks for the informative reply. This was years ago, before the pandemic, and the ICU was relatively empty. I don’t know the full details, because by the time I visited her she was in a deep, medically induced coma, and unfortunately her situation deteriorated from there and she passed away. My other…

I think part of ableism is treating people with disabilities as “diseased”. Someone can have a disability, be it physical and/or mental, and still be perfectly healthy. Yet people will avoid them like they have plague or talk down to them like “oh, you poor dear” type shit. It’s maddening. 

Thank you for your informative reply. I wasn’t sure because of the situation I described in my reply to the OP’s reply. The way it was described to me at the time sounded like they hadn’t kept her sedated her at all, and I was horrified. I experienced a lot of horrifying situations when I was working with people with…

What was interesting to me about the Spaniards I know that hated Franco and fascism to intently is that they’re not even remotely “radical” (not anarchists, not socialists nor communists) - they were just regular folk (albeit on the more intellectual end of the spectrum). One of those friends would try to draw me into…

Thanks for the reply. I’ve visited one person who was in the hospital and intubated, and they said they had to increase the sedative because she kept waking up and freaking out chewing on the tube. Why wasn’t she properly sedated in the first place? I’m guessing because she was developmentally disabled and completely…

RIP Deadspin. Long live Defector (even if it’s behind a paywall). Fuck spamfeller.

Bortles?  There’s a name I never thought I’d hear again, lol...

Even getting intubated is a horror show. Are they sedated do they don’t freak out and try to yank the tube out?

Your point about human nature is important, and equally important to remember is that when things get bad and people are fighting over resources, they have a tendency to support/vote for authoritarian “strongmen”. We’re already seeing a rise in fascism around the world, and this tendency will only increase as the…

To the person who replied to me in the greys: Yes, of course other people who didn’t know her and her wonderful personality probably shunned or treated her badly. That’s not the fucking point I was making, and I state specifically at the end of my post that we need to put an end to that shit. Jesus fucking christ,…

I think a lot of those pastors preaching an actual end date are using that as their retirement date after they’ve grifted enough money from their followers to coast on comfortably for a while. Some of those get stuck, though, and have to come up with a reason it didn’t happen and designate a new end date. Those are…

Idiocy without end.

There’s a great scene in SLC Punk! (that doesn’t seem to be on youtube) where SteveO is giving his dad shit about the porsche he drives. “It’s made by Volkswagen - Volks Wagen ‘the car of the people’”. Nazi nationalist automobiles...

Yeah, right now hospitals themselves are a high-risk area for contracting covid (among other things - like MRSA or c-dif). I would think you’d want to be vaccinated prior to going to one, at this point...

My mother was born very sick and nearly died. She also had only two fingers on her right hand and was blind in one eye (this may or may not have been due to thalidomide or some other drugs her mother was taking). Thing is, it was completely normal for her, and it was completely normal to us kids growing up. We never…

That’s a fair point. I just think the notion of any slack-jawed yokel filing a flimsy lawsuit against someone seeking medical care would be anathema to those who want all the power, as they’re getting cut out of the loop, so to speak.

Absolutely. It’s like in football, when a player retaliates against the player that hit him in a cheap shot, he’s the one who gets penalized.

The large corporations won’t give a fuck because fascist governments subsidize the companies they like (which is part of the reason they’re so eager to kiss republican ass).

Which is crazy because all the Spaniards I know fucking hated Franco and fascism in general. They are extremely tuned in to what is or isn’t fascist over there. Americans could learn al lot if they ever bothered to listen to them.

If it’s moving that fast, I wonder if that creates a sort of cavitation bubble on the opposite side of the object...