Steve Yun posted:

hmm pretty big difference between these two

Steve Yun posted:

oh no the economyyyy

Insanite posted:

100%. if i see a duckbill, i assume that is someone who knows their poo poo.

Steve Yun posted:

oh no the economyyyy

Steve Yun posted:

oh no the economyyyy

Hashy posted:

I gave up on covid precautions and I have been mysteriously sick in one mildly debilitating way or another ever since. Keep up the good work thread

Hashy posted:

I gave up on covid precautions and I have been mysteriously sick in one mildly debilitating way or another ever since. Keep up the good work thread

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

tbh I always figured that was a side effect of living in a city during the industrial revolution before anyone started thinking maybe everyone choking to death and dying from drinking nearby water might be bad

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

tbh I always figured that was a side effect of living in a city during the industrial revolution before anyone started thinking maybe everyone choking to death and dying from drinking nearby water might be bad

Steve Yun posted:

ironically the more money you had the more poisoned poo poo you could expose yourself to

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

https://twitter.com/TheVertlartnic/status/1771646411597062477

FistEnergy posted:

Or how every other US president from the early 1800s died from drinking poopwater due to the open pits a few blocks from the White House. "Got too cold and took a chill" "Ate too many cherries" nah it was doodoo ingestion.

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Cold Case: When a fever spikes, anxiety shouldn't. Sometimes, no treatment can be the best medicine for kids.

The antidote to fear-based reactions — and having confidence that fever is not, in itself, an enemy — is education

As soon as a child’s fever spikes, so does parental anxiety. The medicine cups fly. Someone’s drawing a bath. There may be a call to the pediatrician’s after-hours line.

Here’s the tough love: In most cases, those are overreactions.

“We don’t treat fevers just because you have a fever,” said Todd Wolynn, pediatrician and co-founder of Kids Plus Pediatrics in Squirrel Hill, Pleasant Hills and Cranberry. “Fevers are the body’s sign that it’s responding to some sort of situation, whether it’s infection or a revved up immune system from a vaccine.”

Samuel Glompers posted:

Hell of presidents, high point of the podcast medium

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BRADENTON, Fla. — Colin Holderman might be the only one down here who missed the grind of spring training. For the Pirates reliever, it was much worse.

Holderman was hit hard — really hard — by the illness that made its way around the Pirates clubhouse over the past few weeks. So much so that he went to an area hospital to receive additional fluids and lost roughly 15 pounds.

Although he’s back and on his fifth day throwing, including a bullpen on Saturday, Holderman told the Post-Gazette that he expects to open the season on the 15-day injured list due to all of the time missed.

“Had a rough go of it,” Holderman said. “Had a fever for about seven days. We’re trying to claw back. Gained about five pounds back already. Still have some work to do.

“I am feeling better now. My bullpen was almost the same as beforehand, so I’m not too worried about it. Just have to get the weight back.”

Plenty of Pirates players missed time with the flu, but Holderman’s case was the most severe.

He actually thought the virus — he said he was told he was Influenza A — had returned on St. Patrick’s Day and considered going back to the hospital. But he ditched the idea when there were no available beds.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

https://twitter.com/TheVertlartnic/status/1771646411597062477

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How a Pandemic Malaise Is Shaping American Politics

Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch.

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Philip D. Zelikow, the lawyer who served as the executive director of the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 terror attacks, said the Biden administration moved too quickly to put the pandemic behind it.

“Since the Biden administration never conducted an investigation of the crisis,” Mr. Zelikow said, “and also the Biden administration never developed a serious package of reforms to react to the crisis, the administration basically left the impression that it accepted that the government had failed, but just didn’t want to talk about it anymore.”

Mr. Zelikow, who describes himself as a political independent and says he opposes Mr. Trump, led a nonpartisan team of more than 30 experts called the Covid Crisis Group that investigated the pandemic response and published its findings in a book, “Lessons From the Covid War.” He said that the federal government’s failure to explain how the pandemic happened had accelerated distrust in institutions, and that such an erosion would most likely benefit Mr. Trump, who argues — often falsely — that American politics and government are “rigged” systems.

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Julie Fry, a public defender in New Jersey, spent months pushing administrators and politicians in her state to reopen shuttered public schools. Three years later, her young daughters are thriving in school.

But she feels angry and resentful — at politicians from both parties — when she recalls those long months of home-schooling and the mental health toll it took on so many children.

“I feel like Trump was a mess and Biden was a coward about doing what was right for kids,” said Ms. Fry, who describes herself as a staunch liberal. “There were no grown-ups willing to speak up for what kids needed.”

Mostly, though, Ms. Fry is trying to move forward.

“I try not to be bitter,” she said. “I just have to live with the fact that this happened and people who I thought were allies and had the same values failed me and my kids.”

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/us/politics/pandemic-politics-malaise.html





The problem is that we did anything at all to keep people from dying

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

quote:

He actually thought the virus — he said he was told he was Influenza A — had returned on St. Patrick’s Day and considered going back to the hospital. But he ditched the idea when there were no available beds.

Mola Yam posted:

https://twitter.com/JoePajak/status/1771360307094704167

Bastard Tetris posted:

Force these teachers to get sick and die because I can’t be bothered to take care of my own kids!!!

Steve Yun posted:

eyedrops to make your eyes bigger? deadly nightshade

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/us/politics/pandemic-politics-malaise.html





The problem is that we did anything at all to keep people from dying

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Ahahaha what the gently caress

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2024/03/24/how-to-treat-fever-kids/stories/202403240010

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Why Am I So Tired posted:

my dad (who was wearing an aura) said no because COVID is always exploding then. The doctor rolled his eyes and said there's no point in masks (they don't work!)

Why Am I So Tired posted:

My dad just called for the first time in awhile - his GI doctor wanted him to schedule an endoscopy for January 2025, my dad (who was wearing an aura) said no because COVID is always exploding then. The doctor rolled his eyes and said there's no point in masks (they don't work!) and he doesn't even bother getting the shots anymore because the best thing you can do is keep getting infected for the immunity (!). He decided to switch doctors after that (sorry mods, I can't make him Listen to His Medical Professional).