Posts by Dana Patel7

One single quote from her hit me right in the eye: Jag får killarna jag vill ha...😁
Man, I really picked the wrong time to move away. Looks like the party up north is just getting started...🙂

Big Mark missed the mark by at least 40 or 60 years... honestly, I just hope that whole outdated 'heroic resistance' mentality from the mid-40s stays buried where it belongs.

Nicole James said:So, let me get this straight—you actually expect the Secretary of Health and Human Services to just refuse to stock up on vaccines and medications that medical experts are literally telling us could save a massive number of lives?

I’ve spent enough time looking into this topic to have a few thoughts.
From the moment drugs get the green light until the whole H1N1 mess kicked off, we had certain facts on the table. Meta-studies clearly showed that if you take Tamiflu early on after getting sick, it might ease symptoms for moderate flu cases—shaving maybe a day off the recovery time and slightly lowering the risk of nasty lung infections.
Basically, the actual effectiveness isn't even that impressive.

For me, the side effects are the real headache. Big Pharma isn't required to provide an exhaustive log of every single side effect during clinical trials; they just hand over general stats and percentages. And the only people seeing that data are the regulatory bodies, and even then, it’s often incomplete. Once the drug hits the market, those same companies aren't obligated to share their internal findings on side effects with the public. They have the discretion to just stay quiet. 😁
That’s exactly what happened with Roch; they kept quiet while reports of side effects started getting darker (stuff involving teen suicides and severe behavioral shifts).

And it’s not just a Tamiflu thing. Take some of those cholesterol meds millions of people take—there's evidence they can trigger dementia symptoms with long-term use at worrying rates, yet nobody talks about that nearly as much as they hype up the supposed benefits.

Bottom line: I think Tamiflu was ordered out of pure desperation because there are so few antivirals out there that actually work, let alone ones specifically for the flu. The panic surrounding H1N1 was massive, and unfortunately, most of that pressure came from the media and the public pushing the narrative that there's a "miracle cure" and stingy politicians are just refusing to pay for it.

As for vaccines, I won't step into that ring. I don't know enough to weigh in.

jademoose6 said:I honestly don't get why some people jump straight to imagining military coups.
I haven't mentioned weapons or violence once in any of my posts.
It’s just common sense—wouldn't you call someone a fool for stepping out into a storm without an umbrella?
What would be so wrong about having a local National Guard cell in every neighborhood?
Just honest, decent neighbors—real patriots who actually have your back.
They could stay organized and ready—you know, just in case anything ever comes up...

Look, that’s just a pipe dream. It doesn't work. You see this exact setup all the time—units made up of "loyal patriots" and supposedly "moral citizens," starting out without even any actual firepower. Look at those SA squads in Germany. The only real difference is they were started by a political party instead of the government, but if we're talking about how these things actually play out, that distinction is basically irrelevant.
Honestly? Any group of (semi)armed people claiming to be driven by nothing but "patriotism" and "morality" scares the hell out of me. And anyone who’s seen enough of the real world knows why...

jademoose6 said:Well, they wouldn't exactly be "paramilitary" if they were organized by our legally elected officials, right?☕
The catch here is just that, for this specific instance, the Department of Justice would fall under the command of the new National Guard.

And who exactly would be taking a hit to their... head of state? 😁

The right wing—and don't even get me started on the left—just never bothered to actually build, fund, or back a decent center. Sanders was too busy hoarding fine art and fixing up tunnels, Mason was obsessed with hunting down anyone who disagreed with him, Joe is such a spineless pushover he wouldn't even dare go to the doctor for an eye infection, and Zack is just a philosopher playing it safe because he’s terrified of losing his own skin.
There was plenty of motivation from the broke crowd. Meanwhile, the ones with deep pockets were busy bankrolling various NGOs to push the agendas of the big players here. Their goal isn't about justice or punishing war criminals; it’s all about forced "equality" regarding guilt and keeping the peace in the North America and Mexico.

jadetiger4 said:So, are you paying out pensions to soldiers from the Republic of Mexican Appalachia? Apparently, American historians treat them exactly like Nazi Germany—as nothing more than terrorist proto-states on American soil.

Of course, that’s just how things work in America. Pretty soon, Joe will probably be settling up the pension for the former President of Mexico right then and there... just hang tight until the region stabilizes.😍
The Revolution is making massive strides in the right direction, and everyone's just dying for our guys to finally hand over the cash and give you all a big hug...😍

So, we've still got about 13,000 former members of the old regime's military and militias drawing pensions.
Thank God Dubajić actually put in the work to trim those numbers down...
Honestly, maybe his widow deserves a double pension for all that heavy lifting?
At the end of the day, this cash needs to be redistributed to the surviving veterans from the resistance. Especially the ones who earned their stripes back in '45...

Thanks for the heads-up. I was moving a bit too fast and totally missed that.

The Liberal Party in America—yeah, you hit the nail on the head there—but I’m never voting for them. They just feel way too aggressive for my taste.
In Germany, the Democratic Party 🤣
And now, apparently, I'm a right-winger...

Carol Newman2 said:Here’s another political litmus test for you all.

http://www.euprofiler.eu/page/1

The result:

Looking at the Democratic Party here in America...
In Austria, I’d align most closely with the conservative People's Party from the EPP, or maybe the Republican Party over in Germany... 🤣 That should give you a pretty clear idea of just how "left-wing" the Democratic Party actually is.

As far as the United Kingdom goes, this is what I got.
It tells me my party is basically just Liberal Democrats. 😕

Look, I’m a leftist, and I’m talking on the level of the Dalai Lama here...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...6.62&soc=-1.13

So, next time someone tries to call me a right-winger, I'm just gonna shove this right under their nose...😁

dustyranger66 said:I started out intending to write about one thing, but somehow ended up somewhere else entirely, though I suppose there isn't much of a point to it all; I guess I just need a place to vent my frustrations without having to worry about people my own age dismissing my views since they don't seem particularly interested in these kinds of topics anyway.🤷>

Look, you're a perfectly normal 19-year-old. At that age, everything is binary—it’s either pitch black or blindingly white. Everything feels absolute, whether it's love or pure hatred, and it hits you hard. You're supposed to just dive in headfirst and go all-in on everything until there's nothing left.😁
Man. God, I miss being that age.😍
Wishing you nothing but the best out there.

Sophia Mitchell2 said:I think the only pediatrician available right now is on vacation—the hospital director is also a pediatrician, but I don't think she actually sees patients. They didn't even leave the little one for proper testing; instead, after some "treatment," she was sent home, which led to complications that kept worsening while the "doctors" were busy arguing. I did a bit of digging, and it looks like they should have run a full differential blood count, a blood culture, and some tests using a Gram stain—then maybe there would have been a chance to help that poor little thing. The whole argument happened in the ICU because the girl was in such bad shape that moving her to pediatrics wasn't an option, especially since this all went down between Saturday and Sunday. The real tragedy is that everyone, from the director to the Secretary of Health, knows exactly what kind of people they have in such critical positions. They know how many deaths (at least the most visible ones) have been caused by their incompetence and negligence, yet they still protect them through politics and medical boards. It makes me wonder how many lives—and every single life is worth way more than those three incompetent internists combined—have to be lost before these idiots are finally replaced, if they aren't shut down entirely...-

Diagnosing meningococcal sepsis is mostly about clinical observation. Lab work takes time, and when you're dealing with this, time is the one thing you don't have. This disease moves fast. You go from a slight fever and a headache to death in literally hours. It’s rare, sure, but once you see it happen like this, you never forget it.
To me, the actual diagnosis and medical side isn't even the main issue here. The real story—according to what's hitting the news—is the fact that an internist allegedly tried to kick a dying kid out of his bed because he claimed the bed was "his," leading to a full-on physical altercation.
I can't wrap my head around being that heartless toward a child and their parents.
And honestly, I can't imagine a situation where someone has to resort to fighting just to defend a patient's right to intensive care...

Man, this is heavy. They’re suspecting meningococcal sepsis. It’s absolutely gut-wrenching for parents when stuff like this happens.
Zar doesn't Boise have a pediatric wing? Why else would an anesthesiologist and an internist be the ones hashing out a case involving a kid?
It just goes to show how broken the communication is at that hospital. Total breakdown in teamwork.

So, what kind of mess are we actually talking about here?