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No, it is you who is mad.
Believe it or not, it takes more than a walk for me to not be upset about people spreading covid misinformation. Turns out that working in a mass casualty event for a month then high acuity and overload situations for another year makes you a little sore about a subject. Some of the shit I had to do was wild man, and I still think about it quite a bit.
Itâs weird, because you donât think of everything, at least I donât. I think of a few discrete people. I think of an argument I got into with a PA in the ICU who canceled my covid test I ordered because âif this person has covid weâre all fuckedâ (spoiler alert - we were fucked), the first person I intubated with confirmed covid (a 70 some year old man who went on to die), and this 30 year old guy.
Things were wild then. This guy was previously healthy, 30-something, with a family. He came in absurdly hypoxic and hypotensive. His right ventricle was blown out so we started him on norepinephrine to raise his blood pressure, intubated him, and gave him tenecteplase basically just assuming he had a blood clot in his lungs. He got better, started him on a heparin drip. We never actually confirmed he had a PE with a CTA because he was so unstable and it wouldnât change management at this point. I signed him out to the night team.
Got him back and he was getting worse. He was requiring additional pressure support. I talked to his family over FaceTime with his children who were just old enough to kind of understand what was going on, but not old enough to really know. Said fuck it, fired off another clot busting drug, and he got better. Signed him out to the night team.
Got him back the next day and things are grim. Heâs maxed out on everything. Iâm still a resident now, about 2 months from graduation. Still Iâve been working with my attending for awhile so the decision to fire off another round of clot busting drugs was just as mine as it was hers. It doesnât go well this time. He goes into disseminated intravascular coagulation, and dies bleeding from his IV sites, eyeballs and into his endotracheal tube. I spent 20 minutes cleaning him before holding the phone during FaceTime so the family could see their dead dad.
So yeah, this shit makes me pretty upset. Iâm ok with that. That 30 year old is one of about 10 stories I cycle through sometimes. I think about this quote a lot, âEvery surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray-a place of bitterness and regret, where he must look for an explanation for his failuresâ. Iâve learned from those times though.
I also think how fucking pathetic it is that you defend churchill not because you actually think he was right because youâre too smart for that, but because someone said something mean to you online or banned you a few days. Like fucking hell how pathetic is that?
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You and wookie attacked him endlessly over tiny, even irrelevant things, because thatâs the UP shtick the horsemen are proud of.
Wasnât he banned once for posting something that was in too small a font?
No, of course not, but itâs not like anyone can stop you from making up anything you like about why he got banned.
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Because you refuse to do anything but twist every interaction into playing the victim, you didnât even see what just happened here.
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This is hilarious.
Me: hey this is pretty triggering because of how it relates to this massive real life trauma I went though
You: but he got banned once for this entirely imagined reason.
We are not the same.
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I donât know, if you want people here to empathise with your real life trauma try being nicer to them instead of this deeply unpleasant attack dog thing.
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Oh, right. Dealing with death and grief on a daily basis typically makes someone much more inclined to empathize with the people spreading the misinformation that directly leads to increases in that death and grief.
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Shitting over the same people habitually isnât going to make them disposed to considering your real life troubles. Obviously.
No, but it did get them to shut up.
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If you donât want to read them, put them on ignore.
As played, you can be very proud of yourself there.
This isnât some guy who roots for my football teamâs rival, jal. Itâs spreading misinformation that literally kills people.
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Listen you snot-nose little shit, I was takinâ shrapnel in Khe Sanh when you were crappinâ in your hands and rubbinâ it on your face.
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Bruh why donât you try just once to make one post that actually helps instead of this dumb smarmy bullshit.
lol wait nvm maybe just stick to awkward OKKK talk to the hand
elite scare quotes dog
Somebody shouldâve throttled the thread imo.
But srsly, it indirectly had to do with moderation but then CN and MrWookie got heated and it went from the metadiscussion back to the literal discussion that took place in the Covid thread some time back.
And for the nth time, thatâs totally fine! The spirit moved them to type some words in the wordbox and I donât think they should be punished nor should the thread be throttled. Thatâd be nuts! Itâs a totally natural and logical continuation for the Covid-thread-as-it-relates-to-moderation to veer slightly back to Covid-thread-IN-about-moderation.
Clovis, I donât think you appreciate much my extrapolation-thought-experiments and I doubt that appreciation is increasing, but imagine if I was mod and I just banned MrWookie and CN or confined them to only posting in the Covid thread or some such thing, after they came here and sullied the pristine and hollowed grounds of About Moderation with their Covid Poo Flinging?
You canât imagine it.
Some more John Campbell hits. Note the Twitter accounts are all antivax morons spreading this info:
https://twitter.com/lisa_trump3/status/1600098231181983745?s=46&t=BY3YnB8UcIO0qNrsHh846g
https://twitter.com/hugh_mankind/status/1600218626354606082?s=46&t=BY3YnB8UcIO0qNrsHh846g
https://twitter.com/jessies_now/status/1601733639930511361?s=46&t=BY3YnB8UcIO0qNrsHh846g
Only easily duped people whoâve fallen prey to antivax bullshit cite JC. Thatâs how I knew this was JC in the first place.
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