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Dearest trolls of the interwebs. . If you post online on your page or in a comments section and tell people the vaccine: 1. Will alter your genetic code 2. Can cause infertility 3. Is more dangerous than COVID
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4. Will not help because , flu, or something, without the basic understanding of antigenic drift/shift and how that affects the search for the vaccine. 5. That this technology was just invented and cannot be trusted.
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6. That you have done your “research”, when you know good and damn well that your bullshit research consists of message boards, Facebook memes and YouTube videos...
You are:
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1. An asshole 2. Potentially the cause of someone else not receiving the vaccine, leading to their, or someone else’s, death 3. Still an asshole.
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Stop it. You got a Q about the vax, find the smart people. Find the PhDs in virology, immunology and PH. I’m not them, but I speak their language and I can translate it for you. But keep your murderous agenda to yourself, because the country is suffering and YOU are the problem.
Assholes.
~fin
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College 2020. My daughter went to school, moved into sorority house. Next day, many girls go to frat party (not my kid). Within 4-5 days she has to quarantine back here. Within 3-4 more days, her whole house is on quarantine. 1/
She is banned from campus due to contacts. We move her into an apt off campus with 3 other negative friends. Finally she gets to go back to campus for her ONE in person class. Day 1 AFTER class, a kid walks up to the prof and tells him that she has been feeling poorly. 2/
She has a headache, fatigue and has lost her sense of smell/taste. And oh- all her roommates have the same. Professor was like 👀. Of course she was at the closest desk to my kid. And yes, she tested positive. So now my daughter awaits her second ban from campus. 3/
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it is unfortunate that easy to say slogans can wipe out an entire movement. “Defund the police” does not mean “eliminate the police”, but unfortunately, it can be used as a weapon against reform since the vast majority Americans don’t read beyond slogans and headlines.
I wish it was “re-think the police”, “re-imagine the police” or something like that.
I see police’s problems much like the problems nationwide in emergency medicine since EMTALA made emergency departments nationwide the dumping ground for all of society’s ills.
I’ve always identified with cops more than even other doctors, because i see the same frustrations with our jobs and our “clients”. Let me explain-
Both of our professions are trained in a particular skill set. Mine is identifying and stabilizing immediate life threats.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Twitterverse. I am an emergency physician. COVID has not hit where I live yet, but it is coming. Because of people needlessly hoarding N-95 masks, my ER has 2 boxes, with no estimate as to refill date. I will be literally covered in virus. 1/
We are the only ER in a small city. The virus is highly transmissible. If my partners and I go down, we will be unable to care for patients for 2 weeks. There is no backup. There is no plan to be made to replace us if more than 1 go down at a time. 2/
Care of heart attacks, delayed. Care of your momma’s pneumonia,delayed. People will suffer, I will have 2 weeks off with a bad cold, unable to help. Give us our fucking PPE back. If you’ve hoarded masks, donate them to your local ER. They will not help you. 3/
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I’ve been to war, twice. Iraq in ‘09 and Afghanistan in 2011. I am just a fucking ER doc. But it was there, in the deserts far,far from home, that I made my bones as a newly board certified ER doc. It is around that time, I think that I lost my capacity to feel joy.
2/ Being in war is a strange place. As an ER doc, I wasn’t out kicking doors or taking small arms fire. I was back in base at the level 1 trauma center, waiting for the wounded to pour in. As far as safety went, I was about as safe as you can get there.
3/ Safety is relative. Because we were frequent targets of mortar fire in Iraq, mostly rockets in Afghanistan. My base in Iraq got shelled so often, it was dubbed Mortaritaville. In fact 1 missed me and my buddy by just a couple of minutes of us standing right where they landed.