Know what they call the person that graduated last in his class at medical school?
Doctor.
EDIT: Should have read the rest of the thread first.
Know what they call the person that graduated last in his class at medical school?I've found most doctors to be very knowledgeable concerning medical matters. However, there are mind boggling exceptions. One wonders how they graduated from medical school. Trump found some of those and formed alliances. Birds of a feather flock together, and know-nothings avoid knowledgeable people. An observant person had to notice how Trump kept his best medical advisors at great distance during his daily news conferences earlier in the pandemic. He glanced over his right shoulder at one when he thought out loud about the efficacy of injecting bleach. She, however, looked down at the floor.
I can relate.My experience is that medics don't know very much about anything. Medical science is _so_ over-rated, they don't know anything like as much as their inflated reputation suggests (just look at the frantic learning process we've witnessed in the course of this pandemic).
While I do not agree with Dr. Michael Greger on his vegan tendencies and certain inaccuracies, his experience going through med school and the like indicates that the common doctor is not always someone who is sure to fix a person up healthy; the might have tunnel vision about simply fixing what shows up in the diagnostic. It's probably the most valuable information in his book How Not To Die.Doesn't say much for your "experience" is my take-away from this post.
Definition of science:
"the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment."
Doctors are essentially practical scientists and thus DO NOT know everything obviously, however you are 100% mistaken in that they do have quite a bit of knowledge.
We have quite a ways to go before Dr McCoy's medical "Tricorders" but all kinds of stuff that was a quick death sentence when I was a kid is treatable or curable now.
Know what they call the person that graduated last in his class at medical school?
Doctor.
EDIT: Should have read the rest of the thread first.
Wasn't really paying attention to this, but the new Spider-Man movie looks like it might end up being a Top 5 all time weekend in the US. $200M+.
That's pretty shocking that there's even enough theaters open to be able to handle the crowds. So 20 million+ people in the US decided they'd sit in a dark movie theater packed in with each other for 2 and a half hours.
I've found most doctors to be very knowledgeable concerning medical matters. However, there are mind boggling exceptions. One wonders how they graduated from medical school. Trump found some of those and formed alliances. Birds of a feather flock together, and know-nothings avoid knowledgeable people. An observant person had to notice how Trump kept his best medical advisors at great distance during his daily news conferences earlier in the pandemic. He glanced over his right shoulder at one when he thought out loud about the efficacy of injecting bleach. She, however, looked down at the floor.
Wasn't really paying attention to this, but the new Spider-Man movie looks like it might end up being a Top 5 all time weekend in the US. $200M+.
That's pretty shocking that there's even enough theaters open to be able to handle the crowds. So 20 million+ people in the US decided they'd sit in a dark movie theater packed in with each other for 2 and a half hours.
Basically all the cinemas in the country that survived are operating. I saw it on Thursday. I’m triple vaxed, in good health, not seeing anyone vulnerable, and have access to ample antigen rapid testing. I’ll wear my KNs but I don’t feel like sealing myself in the bunker again unless Omicron proves more deadly than it has so far.
Modern medicine is still young. Give it another couple hundred years**. I know, not helpful for us, but for others it will be.I'm not talking about individual competence, I'm talking about the vast areas that it seems medical science as a whole doesn't understand very well and which are still clearly areas of active research. If your condition falls into one of those areas it's hard to get any answers from doctors because the answers just aren't out there.
I feel the same way but IDK about movie theaters anymore .... barely seemed worth it to me BEFORE the pandemic nevermind now.
I don't want to catch Covid at all myself vaxxed or not and a crowded theater sounds like a fantastic place to do just that.
Incidentally I always liked how he was sufficiently prepared that he had MS "Armageddeon visualiser" already installed.
Animated paperclip pops up "It looks like you are modelling the end of the world, do you need some help?"
Or maybe he just knocked it out quickly with some prototyping tools and a scripting language? But still felt compelled to put some neat animation effects in there, because just producing a list of numbers is so _boring_.
Thank you, I WILL watch that. I read a long interview of Osterholm online back near the beginning of the pandemic and was super impressed (and informed). I believe he was the consultant for Contagion, a movie that kind of predicts our pandemic. I got ahold of that and watched it back 1st half of 2020.A possible VIRAL BLIZZARD will be upon us very soon. I just got done listening to the Osterhom podcast. He's predicting a bad winter. So many unvaccaniated people in America. If Omicron takes off like it's expected we are going to have more people hospitalized. More Americans are going to die. Such a shame that we have such a dustrust of Science. But hey. God will take care of it. Yea, OK... Good podcast btw.
After severely overestimating the impact COVID would have since Jan 2020 and being proven wrong several times I am going to go ahead and assume that the sky will in fact stay up this time. Yes many many more people will get sick but I do not believe it is going to result in too much of an impact. Seeing a lot of anectodical accounts of people in London and NYC saying there are very large numbers of sick people who basically have a cold, it is not like previous waves where tons of people were gravely ill. Hospitals are reporting a large increase in cases but those cases are not there because of COVID they just happen to have it. I'm more worried about interruptions to the supply chain from mandatory quarantines than I am the actual disease at this point. Hopefully I am not wrong again.
Yes...Old news....and that's mostly Delta. 30 hospitalizations per 100k people is somewhat manageable as long as they recover quicker than 30 days. That's the problem with the way covid was being treated in 2020. It was taking a full month for people to recover. I believe with the treatments they have now, the outcomes are MUCH better...but that's not to say that nursing staff are going to be happy with unvaxxed people coming through the doors still. It's almost like the serving staff in a restaurant getting paid $2.50/hour to wait tables......then one minute before closing some cheap jerk comes through the door demanding to be seated and doesn't leave a tip.
After severely overestimating the impact COVID would have since Jan 2020 and being proven wrong several times I am going to go ahead and assume that the sky will in fact stay up this time. Yes many many more people will get sick but I do not believe it is going to result in too much of an impact. Seeing a lot of anectodical accounts of people in London and NYC saying there are very large numbers of sick people who basically have a cold, it is not like previous waves where tons of people were gravely ill. Hospitals are reporting a large increase in cases but those cases are not there because of COVID they just happen to have it. I'm more worried about interruptions to the supply chain from mandatory quarantines than I am the actual disease at this point. Hopefully I am not wrong again.
Do we know which variant is hitting those people?At least on Twitter it seems like all cases of people I follow, who are vaccinated and probably boosted, are mild. Complaints of severe symptoms were much more commonplace last year before people had gotten shots.
I just spoke to a client of mine who had COVID Thanksgiving of 2020. Lost taste quite a bit but mostly smell. Just starting to get her smell back well for some types of things, but certainly not all things. Like she can't smell gas. She is preggers so at the stove she's accidentally turned on the stove with her belly turning around. Her husband has to smell it and run in from the other room and tell her that it's on and needs to turn it off.Do we know which variant is hitting those people?
I know a few people that have gotten it recently & their first symptom was loss of taste & smell, but mild other than that. It's come back for them I have a relative who still hasn't fully gotten hers back yet & it's coming up on 1 year since she lost those senses. She had a mild case at the time.
Do we know which variant is hitting those people?
At least on Twitter it seems like all cases of people I follow, who are vaccinated and probably boosted, are mild. Complaints of severe symptoms were much more commonplace last year before people had gotten shots.
Do we know which variant is hitting those people?
I know a few people that have gotten it recently & their first symptom was loss of taste & smell, but mild other than that. It's come back for them I have a relative who still hasn't fully gotten hers back yet & it's coming up on 1 year since she lost those senses. She had a mild case at the time.