An onc rn. Trapped in the suburbs outside Denver.
This is why we should never debate the worth of another person
We all have value just for being ourselves
It’s not tied to our job, or health status or our economic contribution
Saying that someone must prove they “matter” to get Medicaid is blatant eugenics
Disabled people aren’t expendable!
"If they have to do it, they should do it in private."
"Yeah!"
"It's not right, doing it in the open where kids can see."
"Yeah! It's not like they have to, it's something they choose to do."
"True. Hate is a lifestyle choice."
"Absol- Hate?"
"Yeah. What did you think we were talking about?"
"CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.
State and local health departments responsible for invisible but critical work such as inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for new and harmful germs, responding to outbreaks before they get too big — and a host of other tasks to protect both individuals and communities — are being hollowed out.
'Nobody wants to go swim in a community pool and come out of it with a rash or a disease from it. Nobody wants to walk out their door and take a fresh breath of air and start wheezing,' said Lori Tremmel Freeman, executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials.
But local health officials say they now have no choice but to do a lot less of it. The Trump administration is cutting health spending on an unprecedented scale, experts say, including pulling $11 billion of direct federal support because the pandemic is over and eliminating 20,000 jobs at national health agencies that in part assist and support local public health work. It’s proposing billions more be slashed."
https://apnews.com/article/public-health-measles-rfk-maha-trump-d863f53a5d370413de8d165d5ab96e65
@andyw350 I don’t care about the article. I just love this image.
Remember vaccines? Those were cool… #publichealth
“If you want to be able to afford more than two dolls for your daughter, then sell your daughter to my daughter, who can afford to buy all your daughters to be dolls for her daughter.”
People think they miss manufacturing jobs. They don’t. They miss social benefits guaranteed by a union.
40 hour work week? Union won.
Worker’s comp insurance? Union won.
Overtime pay? Union won.
@BenjaminHCCarr that’s nice for them. I’m a nurse. Been doing work, in person with my hands, and a commute. I only feel resentful towards the work from home class.
Report claiming environmental policies steal billions from Colorado’s economy based on bad math, advocates say
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/02/common-sense-report-cost-of-greening-colorado-disputed/
@coloradosun facts hard to come by. Just have these that we cooked up
It would be cool if tesla got someone who cared about making cars. And could be nice to their kids. Is there people like that? Being nice is hard.
Cool! A clinical trial run by the NCI confirms that a single dose of the HPV vaccine used to prevent infection with the papilloma virus is just as effective as 2 — & also helps to prevent cancer. The shots prevent cervical cancer & anal, penile, and some head-&-neck cancers.
“I think we can all agree that one dose & two doses of … these fantastic vaccines work really well,” said Kreimer, the NCI investigator.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/hpv-vaccine-single-dose-prevents-infection-just-as-well-as-two-doses-hci-clinical-trial/
"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.
Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.
Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"
@georgetakei thanks Hyundai
@majorlinux the US got the spoils. Won the peace for sure.
Biden painstakingly managed the economic recovery to hand off a strong and sound economy to Trump just to have it not only pulled apart and tanked.
Now somebody’s going to want a Democrat to fix it when they had one they could have voted for.
Have Trump tariffs pushed us into recession? Here are warning signs:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2025/04/19/warning-signs-of-potential-recession-via-trump-tariffs/83142323007/
