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  • Then maybe get that surgery you’ve been putting off NOW. Before January.

    I’m listing each medical institution I’ve worked with and associated with in the back of my brain and the only locations that come to mind as not non-profit are university hospitals. Most hospitals work the non profit angle. I encourage you to Google your 3 closest hospital systems and see what you come up with regarding non profit status.

    The university hospital issue strikes me as something we should all be considering right now, the contribution of university hospitals in practical hands on research via the educational half of their institutions. Many an experimental or top line not available elsewhere medical treatment is found at a university hospital. The other piece of university hospitals is they are magnets for degreed talent, including doctors, mid-levels, and nurses.

    If anything, I see him leveraging on it, like using section 230 to make YouTube not moderate anything.








  • Remember, the social media attacks and misinfo start now. That’s Authoritarinism 101. You really should listen to the 1A speech. He wants moderation of social media to end, plans to require a court order to ban accounts, wants shadowbans (how does he even know what that is???) to end, and is stating he will set “his” DOJ on anyone trying to “censor” things in such ways. His plan is to pull 230 from YouTube if they moderate content at all.

    Oh, and to punish any platform using the designation misinformation or disinformation.

    Essentially ban the platforms from discussing him negatively without banning the platforms by simply flooding them with trash.

    So I expect activity to that end to appear starting now and steadily worsen over time.


  • Trump isn’t the direct problem, RFK is. RFK is batshit and somehow still managed to receive up to 15k votes in some states. And then trumps lazy potato ass throws RFK a job favor not caring how it plays out since RFK won’t be touching his health.

    Flu is a uniquely adaptive virus. It’s why we don’t have a universal vaccine, and why King picked it as his death virus in The Stand. That said, like with H1N1, they can batch those vaccines out rather quickly.

    Extra info regarding general yearly flu shots: There are a lot of flus. If two different flus meet in the night a third type of flu will be born. So each year, science runs the odds and picks the 3 most likely flus and puts them into that year’s flu vaccine. They’re pretty good at getting it right. Even when they’re 100% correct, flu #4, #5, or #6 can still get through. The biggest misconception is thinking “the” flu or “the” flu shot references a single virus is it’s entirety.

    As with most things human, it’s a probability game.

    H5N1 vaccine can be produced and handed out rather quickly, as they were with H1N1.