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@mountain_goats
Oct 2, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
like, I'm a nurse by training. Patient education is one of the most joyous of nursing duties. If you can help a person take care of themselves, that's the best feeling
and if you try and try and the patient says "well, 'hypertension' whatever, you guys use a lot of 50-cent words but you're no smarter than me, and besides, Big Pharma is evil*, I have to follow my own path"
*people don't say this without cause, mind; however, etc
then it's much more frustrating than satisfying when the patient ends up on the ICU. "the patient" here isn't the president, it's the people who listen to him and who react to the state of play; they're not going to suddenly embrace science,
they're not going to suddenly say "maybe the weaponization of CDC data for political ends is Bad, Actually,"
they're just going to spin conspiracy theories, as will plenty of people from the other side of the political spectrum
the patient just doesn't want to hear about the actual problem
and we can't isolate the patient, so the infections, along multiple branches, spread. Hi, we're the Mountain Goats /thread

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gotta do a little preaching on a thing I keep thinking about, be warned this is one of them God-bothering THREADs
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so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited
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please do not pile on the original author though because! she is almost certainly right if you're trying to quote a big-name artist who has sold their publishing! loose thread here
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I don't lack the language for much, but the gratitude I feel in my heart for the well-wishing I've been receiving since yesterday leads me to that point. however will I not try to make some words of this feeling? yes I will, herewith a THREAD on the Christmas spirit
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