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Oh, if you haven't heard Run The Jewels, you really should:

https://youtu.be/uuWQyfGa1yI?si=DziQIMpjbfxJWR2E

People's legs being in that position would negate what is considered a safe evacuation. Modern regulations stipulate that you have 90 seconds to get everyone off the plane safely with 50% of the emergency exits blocked. That's why you're required to be seated completely upright with your feet on the floor during takeoff and landing. So you can stand up immediately if anything goes wrong and you need to evacuate.

This accident is one of the reasons why that rule exists. We forget these things:

"It was then, just 90 seconds after the plane came to a stop, that the entire passenger cabin exploded in flame. An unstoppable wall of fire swept forward from the back of the plane, consuming everything in its path, painting every window in brilliant orange. Firefighters tried to fight it, but there was nothing they could do. Captain Cameron, who jumped from the window just seconds before the explosion, would be the last to leave the plane alive."

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-song-of-smoke-and-fire-the-tragedy-of-air-canada-flight-797-7ea7923e76d8

You don't design for the flight; you design for the evacuation. We learned that the hard way decades ago. This looks like it forgot all those lessons paid for by people's lives.

We need public hospitals.

We need public hospitals.

We need public hospitals again.

My hospital is not rural, but we are a small community, high-Medicaid population hospital. We've not been profitable 3 out of the past 5 years and the response from the (out-of-state) for-profit corporation has been to slash staff to such low levels that the nurses are finally unionizing.

We are a critical healthcare access point for our community. And that corporation has zero incentive to do what's right for my neighbors. Only the city, state, maybe federal governments have that incentive. We should be a government operation, not private. It's that simple.

Whoever made this underestimates the shore of a Great Lake, I see. Ohio and Michigan already have beaches.

Tl;dr - a large percentage of the list are birds from Hawaii that clearly didn't survive the introduction of cats. And several more are fresh water mussels probably lost to the zebra mussel invasion.

I mean, penicillin wasn't publicly available until 1941. So at that time, we barely had healthcare that was even worth paying for. I can understand why they deprioritized it.

I think people forget we've had truly modern healthcare for less than a century

I don't mow my lawn.

Fully invested in the no lawn movement, I've been slowly replacing my grass with "no-mow" fine fescue grasses that fall over when they grow long instead of standing up straight. They grow slowly and are meant to not be mowed most of the summer season, just a couple times in the spring and cut down low in the fall.

Between that and using shredded leaves as mulch in my flower beds or lasagna mulching to create a new flower bed, my neighbors definitely think I'm a bit off.

The biggest problem, I've found, is that elderly people who are hard of hearing to begin with struggle so much to understand you with a mask on. Through the whole pandemic, I was losing my voice from what I affectionately call "shouting at old people" all day. Especially with ventilation fans and monitor alarms and people talking in the hallway.

When my hospital finally lifted their mask mandate earlier this year, I initially thought I'd never go back. Then the creeping convenience, "well let me just pull the mask down because Meemaw doesn't understand me, just this once." It's especially helpful with dementia patients who really need that nonverbal communication of facial expression.

I still mask vigilantly if I have any patient with respiratory symptoms, even if they're negative for Covid/fly/RSV because I learned the hard way that viruses were don't test for still exist. And of course, with the recent (completely manageable) influx of Covid patients, I'm religiously wearing my N95.

So that's kind of the what we're dealing with when considering to mask or not to mask.

I talk to you folks lol. I use this pretty much the same way I did Reddit. Something kinda brainless to scroll when I'm standing in line. And the more you comment, the more you have to read/do on here, so when I'm particularly bored, I talk more. I also don't have any other social media.

I have a couple phone puzzle games I play. If I know I'm gonna be sitting like in a waiting room for a while, I'll take a book with me. For the longer moments sitting at home, podcasts and music.

I'll just copy my comment from another post of this article:

History lesson time: This wasn't done on purpose. It's an artifact of decisions made by Congress during World War II to support war production.

So many young men were away at war that it created a labor shortage, even with some women entering the work force. This led to spiraling increases in wages that were threatening the viability of critical war manufacturers.

In an effort to protect this manufacturing sector, Congress capped wage increases. But those corporations were still competing for workers and now they were no longer able to offer them higher and higher wages. So instead, they started offering them "perks" like health insurance, pensions, and paid time off.

THEN:

"In 1943 the War Labor Board, which had one year earlier introduced wage and price controls, ruled that contributions to insurance and pension funds did not count as wages. In a war economy with labor shortages, employer contributions for employee health benefits became a means of maneuvering around wage controls."

Emphasis mine. And guess what? When those young men returned from war and re-entered the work force, they wanted those perks too. So which company was going to be the first to deescalate the arms race and NOT offer health insurance?

And those perks being so ubiquitous meant the government never had an incentive to provide health coverage directly to anyone of working age, so we only have Medicare for retirees.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/#:~:text=In%201943%20the%20War%20Labor,of%20maneuvering%20around%20wage%20controls.

This looks ridiculous, I love it