See also: premature babies and adults with COPD. Oxygen toxicity is a thing.
Chetzemoka
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Even the flu is not "just" the flu. I think a lot of people mistake nasty head colds for the flu when they say "I get the flu all the time " I've only had flu twice in my life, and trust me, it's way worse than most respiratory viruses. Covid was the same for me recently. Trending very badly in just the 24 hrs before I started Paxlovid
Have a feeder out when they're young. I have one particular bluejay and one particular woodpecker that I can distinguish because they were born in the forest behind my yard and started eating at the feeder when they could barely fly and looked like super awkward tufts of fuzz. Whenever I refill the feeder these days, I notice those two show up first
If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.
I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.
Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I'm told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I'll never forget it.
That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.
I'm happy to accept a juice box to the face as part of my end of life nursing duties. To Valhalla with you all!!!
The 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution affirms citizens' right not to talk to investigating authorities. It's what they're referring to when you see cops in movies tell people "you have the right to remain silent"
Scrubs is well known to be the only really accurate depiction of American hospitals. Mostly because it's the only show where nurses even exist.
Today's high temp and humidity in Rio gives them a Wet Bulb Globe Temperature of 77⁰F, which is not great. WBGT of 80⁰-90⁰F is the danger zone, and recent research has suggested that WBGT 85⁰ is probably a more realistic upper limit of human safety.
Sources if you would like to do some doom math yourself:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/br/rio-de-janeiro
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021
Not gonna lie, being a nurse during a pandemic with that jackass as president broke something in me
The secret ingredient is 🌈⭐ misogyny⭐🌈
I'll insult fascists until the day I die.