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Micas wrote on Dec 8, 2021, 13:56:Good to know.
The Get Back documentary is incredible.
Bent wrote on Dec 8, 2021, 14:36:
Yeah, the Louvre is incredible. You could spend days just trying to see everything.
I'd strongly recommend not waiting in the incredibly long line to get a quick peek at the Mona Lisa. There are better things to see there and better uses for the time you have.
After more than three decades as a physician, the Q maniacs have succeeded in driving me out of providing care to patients. I, like many of my colleagues, am moving into medically-adjacent work, where we can continue to apply our training and decades off knowledge without ever having to come in contact with sick people.
I've been able to deal with the years of patients who attended Google Medical School, and the hours wasted explaining things such as why cinnamon cannot be used to treat diabetes, or that garlic and beetroot can't treat HIV. And Lord save me from essential oils.
COVID and Q finally proved to be the one of amateur "experts" that was too much for me. The horrific deaths are beyond what you might imagine. They emerge almost unrecognizable to their families. Since June, I have never seen a horrible case of someone who was vaccinated. I have seen people struggling to breathe through lungs that have hardened to near uselessness, begging us in their ignorance to give them the vaccine now. We can tell, almost without fail, which ones will die when they come through the door of the ICU, but we do everything in our power to keep them alive - BIPAP, ECMO, ventilator - knowing we are stretching out the inevitable. We use paralytics with ECMO and ventilators, then ease them off to see if they can function. And as the drugs wane, the look of terror emerges, the tears. We try to calm them, to swallow our desire to scream at them: This is your fault! This didn't have to happen! Often, their spouse or their uncle or neighbor is nearby, dying along with them. And we work hard for those rare cases where we can pull them back from the edge.
RedEye9 wrote on Dec 8, 2021, 15:35:The alerts said Flood Warning, which based on the constant rain-induced whiteout conditions of the past 24 hours, I could pretty easily deduce. But better than nothing I suppose.jdreyer wrote on Dec 8, 2021, 15:23:Glad to hear you fared well.
We survived the floods, thanks RedEye. Lost power for about 10s only, but most of downtown had no power for a day (literally starting with the block next to my building). That said, it looks like the spike may have fried one of my external hard drives. Despite being connected to a surge protector at the time, I can't get it to connect to my PC now. The worst part of the storm was the constant cell phone alerts. Got half a dozen, the last one coming at 11pm.
Cell phone alerts are next to useless. Unless they can give you 8 hour advance notice of a tsunami.
jdreyer wrote on Dec 8, 2021, 15:23:Glad to hear you fared well.
We survived the floods, thanks RedEye. Lost power for about 10s only, but most of downtown had no power for a day (literally starting with the block next to my building). That said, it looks like the spike may have fried one of my external hard drives. Despite being connected to a surge protector at the time, I can't get it to connect to my PC now. The worst part of the storm was the constant cell phone alerts. Got half a dozen, the last one coming at 11pm.