Here is a fall boy in a sweater to warm all of us as the nights begin to chill:

The whole point of ending the conservatorship is that Britney's life and career decisions of all sizes are hers to make, and hers alone. It shouldn't have anything to do with anyone else.

This case and other cases that develop from it are setting an important precedent for guardianships/conservatorships across the country. It may be instrumental in preventing further abuses within the probate system.

Sedation lasts until the med runs out and requires careful monitoring. With the staffing shortages and additional stresses added on by the pandemic, it may be that the ICU nurse had more patients than they could properly monitor (before the pandemic, ICU patients were always 1:1 with their nurse, but these days, being…

I don’t think Joe Rogan is for free thinking at all. He talks about it just enough to convince his audience that they are all on the same side, but people actually thinking independently means having a high potential of disagreeing with him, and that is bad for his business. And he opposes or ignores the results of…

Hear, hear!

Yes, and given short-acting paralytics as well. In most cases, though, if you are sick enough to need an artificial airway, you don’t have much fight left in you. Sedation, usually with propofol, continues as long as your body needs to heal. We intubate people a lot of the time if we’re able to bring them back from…

Yeah, where are the twenty-year longitudinal studies about vaccines that have been available for 11 months or less? Huh? Your silence speaks volumes. /s

Three hundred days is an extraordinary accomplishment! Congratulations on continuing to progress with your sobriety. 

She had surgery of some kind and will be out for six weeks.

Amen and hallelujah. But don’t waste your time any further on this one. They will not be convinced, and balancing priorities is something that might make them short circuit.

I know more than you do, as your lack of reading comprehension missed that the solution is to build manufacturing in the countries where the vaccines are needed, which is the solution the companies are working towards to avoid doses wasted due to a lack of local infrastructure. The current donor process is not…

I do seem to waste words on you, as it took three entire comments to convince you that, as a frontline healthcare worker in the middle of a surge, does in fact need all the protection afforded me. Try as I might, I can’t make you less obtuse.

Come down from your high horse for a minute and talk to me about the logistical realities of cold chain storage. It’s a big and nice-feeling thing to say that the US should be shipping doses to places that need them, but you and anyone else arguing for that clearly does not understand and/or has never had a job where…

Thank you for this insight into the lives and minds of a certain subset of straight women.

Twins, so...two blobs.

Me taking into account the risk I am exposed to every day working around COVID-19 patients does not mean ignoring the world. It means that, just like in my ED, I have to prioritize. And I’m sure it doesn’t matter to you at all if I get infected and suffer lifelong consequences and also reinfect my immunocompromised…

A lot can be done under an EUA.

It’s like I see an immediate threat to my health and that of my coworkers on the front lines of the pandemic and need to address that first. It’s also like the US has a greater share of the virus deaths and cases per capita than the rest of the world, and we are so responsible for this that our travel is limited by…

Forgove me or not, but when hospitals in my area are having two hour ambulance waits in their EDs, meaning the ambulance brings you to the hospital and the medics and EMTs wait with you at least two hours for a bed to open up in the ED, and when my hospital is at peak census every day because of all of our COVID…