My son is a former mortician, and I am SUPER glad he isn't in that business anymore. I mean, morticians face real health risks every day. My son got exposed to typhoid or some kind of nonsense like that a few years ago when it made the rounds in the jails. He also had to pick up a woman who had died and bled out everywhere. He said it looked like the walls were painted in blood.
There is no way to safely preserve a body that has died of this virus, so there won't be any open caskets, no cosmetics, no restorations, no service. So no, I don't think that this will be a boon for the funeral home business. It will put mortuary workers at great risk. All the bodies will be cremated, I should hope. Probably buried in mass graves, should this continue.
I'm really, REALLY glad my son isn't practicing his profession anymore.
Since the governor of Michigan criticized him, she's been having difficulty getting deliveries of supplies. Tell me that isn't trump and I'll tell you you're a liar.
Some things need to be actually seen and evaluated. When the primary closes their office at 5 pm and the weekend, a walk in is the perfect resource to use. I had an attack of Bells Palsy on a Friday evening and couldn't reach my doctor and even if I did reach him for liability reasons he understandably might not want to just take my word for it that I had Bells and not a CVA, so went to the walk in and got my acyclovir and medrol dose pack right away. Problem solved at a $75 cost and did not clog up and ER and leave with a couple grand worth of debt. So many other examples...... and for my daughter with no insurance the walk ins are a godsend. Stay well.
Snippy. Yeah ppl are snippy about a Needlessly dead boy. God damn right.
I work in healthcare. I can’t stand Bernie. I have mixed feelings about M4A. But this is a super gross take.
Ppl need to see and hear how the status quo is not okay. At all. Incremental reform may be all we get. But you better look it in the eye. Any “moderate”changes to the current system will still lead to many ugly cases of horrible suffering, even if this one issue is fixed.
If “moderates” are truly the adults in the room, at least have the decency to look your choices in the eye.
Like the padded crime stats in Chicago, they'll just chalk the deaths up to a lesser cause. I.G. snatching a cell phone out of someone's hands on the El is now 'confiscation of mislaid property', 'breaking and entering' is now 'unlawful entry'.
and the lesson that people should take from this is go straight to the emergency room if you've got no insurance.
- but there has got to be more to this story - CA is a medicaid expansion state, did his parents just not bother to sign him up for health insurance? it can't be because he was undocumented. from NPR:
"Since 2016, California has allowed children under 18 to receive taxpayer-backed health care despite immigration status."
It may cheer people up some to realize that when I was a psych nurse (in the 1970s) a hospital administrator wanted to discharge a patient because she had no money. We (the staff) threw him off the floor.Of course, this was psych, and they feared us. We might have locked the administrator in with some of the patients!
My son is a former mortician, and I am SUPER glad he isn't in that business anymore. I mean, morticians face real health risks every day. My son got exposed to typhoid or some kind of nonsense like that a few years ago when it made the rounds in the jails. He also had to pick up a woman who had died and bled out everywhere. He said it looked like the walls were painted in blood.
There is no way to safely preserve a body that has died of this virus, so there won't be any open caskets, no cosmetics, no restorations, no service. So no, I don't think that this will be a boon for the funeral home business. It will put mortuary workers at great risk. All the bodies will be cremated, I should hope. Probably buried in mass graves, should this continue.
I'm really, REALLY glad my son isn't practicing his profession anymore.
And not even death panels with doctors. Death panels headed by someone with an associate's degree.
Since the governor of Michigan criticized him, she's been having difficulty getting deliveries of supplies. Tell me that isn't trump and I'll tell you you're a liar.
Some things need to be actually seen and evaluated. When the primary closes their office at 5 pm and the weekend, a walk in is the perfect resource to use. I had an attack of Bells Palsy on a Friday evening and couldn't reach my doctor and even if I did reach him for liability reasons he understandably might not want to just take my word for it that I had Bells and not a CVA, so went to the walk in and got my acyclovir and medrol dose pack right away. Problem solved at a $75 cost and did not clog up and ER and leave with a couple grand worth of debt. So many other examples...... and for my daughter with no insurance the walk ins are a godsend. Stay well.
It’s not a coincidence that the vast majority of sufferers of autoimmune conditions and lupus specifically are women.
Women’s lives are always expendable.
Snippy. Yeah ppl are snippy about a Needlessly dead boy. God damn right.
I work in healthcare. I can’t stand Bernie. I have mixed feelings about M4A. But this is a super gross take.
Ppl need to see and hear how the status quo is not okay. At all. Incremental reform may be all we get. But you better look it in the eye. Any “moderate”changes to the current system will still lead to many ugly cases of horrible suffering, even if this one issue is fixed.
If “moderates” are truly the adults in the room, at least have the decency to look your choices in the eye.
Like the padded crime stats in Chicago, they'll just chalk the deaths up to a lesser cause. I.G. snatching a cell phone out of someone's hands on the El is now 'confiscation of mislaid property', 'breaking and entering' is now 'unlawful entry'.
and the lesson that people should take from this is go straight to the emergency room if you've got no insurance.
- but there has got to be more to this story - CA is a medicaid expansion state, did his parents just not bother to sign him up for health insurance? it can't be because he was undocumented. from NPR:
"Since 2016, California has allowed children under 18 to receive taxpayer-backed health care despite immigration status."
Too bad that isn't a desideratum for politicians.
It may cheer people up some to realize that when I was a psych nurse (in the 1970s) a hospital administrator wanted to discharge a patient because she had no money. We (the staff) threw him off the floor.Of course, this was psych, and they feared us. We might have locked the administrator in with some of the patients!
Yes, the one time I went to an urgent care while bleeding from a scalp/ear wound. Nothing like dripping blood to get their attention.
Were they able to do anything for it? My experience has been that death would have been a blessed relief, and it lasted 8 weeks.
Well, he didn't believe smoking would kill him, either.
Dunno, them viruses is pretty small. Think they can shoot 'em?
When I was a nurse, back in the Jurassic, we made less than did supermarket baggers. And the baggers weren't in constant danger of assault.
Don't know what we'd do without Texas. I'd be willing to give it a try.