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2021-10-06 at 7:15 AM UTCReagans war on Drugs had Reagan have the Army and DEA flying helicopters over neighborhoods in California and drop Paraquate
then people saw dust on their cars. then umm People got Parkenson Disease and lawsuits started around 1985. but Nixon did it first in Mexico secretly which half of the weed ended up in the southwest where people smoked it
fun times. kinda crazy looking back. but nothing like the madness of today. more comical back then.. cept the dying from Paraquate. luckily I was too young to smoke pot back then.. much
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2021-10-06 at 6:46 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Paranoid delusion much?
This is a known fact. For someone who is at least 10 years my senior would of made you in your mid to late 20s in 1981?
I remember the neighbors yelling about it on his pickup and Harley parked on the lawn. The copters flying outside telling people to stay inside.
You weren't in Cali apparently.
Look up the Paraquat caused Parkenson disease syndrome linked to people who smoked pot sold in southwestern states that both Nixon and Reagan was responsible for. -
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2021-10-07 at 2:41 PM UTCBusiness Insider
One of Colorado's largest health systems is denying organ transplants to most unvaccinated people
insider@insider.com
Colorado's UCHealth system is denying organ transplants to most unvaccinated people.
Transplant centers often prioritize patients who are more likely to survive after surgery.
Vaccinated people fall into that category, since they're well protected against COVID-19.
More than 100,000 Americans are on a waitlist for an organ transplant, and deciding who to prioritize is complicated business. Patients must be deemed a good match for an organ based on their height, weight, blood type, and geographic location.
But one of Colorado's largest health systems, UCHealth, recently introduced another criterion: Transplant patients must have received a COVID-19 vaccine, or get one.
UCHealth is denying transplants to unvaccinated people "in almost all situations," since these individuals are more likely than vaccinated people to die of COVID-19, the health system told The Washington Post.
Dan Weaver, a spokesperson for UCHealth, told The Post that the policy aligns with a common practice of prioritizing people who are more likely to survive a transplant, and less likely to require another one down the line. Transplant centers, for instance, often require patients to get other vaccines and to abstain from drinking or smoking.
But deciding who's eligible for surgery based on vaccination status raises complicated ethical questions.
"Each individual [transplant] center is wrestling with what to do about COVID vaccination status," Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University, told Insider.
"You try to maximize lives saved, years of life saved, and even, to some extent, quality of life saved with your scarce supply," he added. "I don't see why we wouldn't be doing that with COVID and vaccination status."
In transplant decisions, a key question: Who's most likely to live?
Healthcare systems across the US vie for organs from a national waitlist managed by the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). UNOS has guidelines for how to make the best use of a limited organ supply and prevent discrimination based on demographic factors like sex, religion, or financial status. But health systems can determine independently whether to add or remove someone from the waitlist.
"The general principle driving the list used to be, 'Who's sickest? Who's going to die if they don't get it?'" Caplan said. "That slowly has been shifting toward, 'Who's most likely to live, and how do we get the most benefit from the scarce supply?'"
There are a few reasons for that, he added: Organ transplants started to have a better success rate around the early 2000s, so transplant centers began to worry more about "wasting" organs on people who were likely to die anyway. Transplant centers are also evaluated based on their success rates, which can inform whether they remain eligible for organs from UNOS.
"That puts even more pressure to have organs that work for one year, two years, and five years," Caplan said. "So they are in a way incentivized not to take higher-risk people - and that would include non-vaccinated people for both flu and COVID."
Many medical experts agree that it's important to consider a person's vaccination status ahead of a transplant, along with other risk factors.
Transplant patients have a much higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than the average person, since their immune systems do a poorer job of vanquishing the virus. Studies have shown that kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 have a mortality rate between 13% and 39%.
(The COVID-19 mortality rate across the entire US is around 1.6%.)
There's also a small risk that transplant patients will receive an organ from someone who's had COVID-19, and could therefore inherit a previously undetected infection.
Overall, unvaccinated Americans are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated Americans, according to a September study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
2021-10-07 at 2:51 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Business Insider
One of Colorado's largest health systems is denying organ transplants to most unvaccinated people
insider@insider.com
Colorado's UCHealth system is denying organ transplants to most unvaccinated people.
Transplant centers often prioritize patients who are more likely to survive after surgery.
Vaccinated people fall into that category, since they're well protected against COVID-19.
More than 100,000 Americans are on a waitlist for an organ transplant, and deciding who to prioritize is complicated business. Patients must be deemed a good match for an organ based on their height, weight, blood type, and geographic location.
But one of Colorado's largest health systems, UCHealth, recently introduced another criterion: Transplant patients must have received a COVID-19 vaccine, or get one.
UCHealth is denying transplants to unvaccinated people "in almost all situations," since these individuals are more likely than vaccinated people to die of COVID-19, the health system told The Washington Post.
Dan Weaver, a spokesperson for UCHealth, told The Post that the policy aligns with a common practice of prioritizing people who are more likely to survive a transplant, and less likely to require another one down the line. Transplant centers, for instance, often require patients to get other vaccines and to abstain from drinking or smoking.
But deciding who's eligible for surgery based on vaccination status raises complicated ethical questions.
"Each individual [transplant] center is wrestling with what to do about COVID vaccination status," Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University, told Insider.
"You try to maximize lives saved, years of life saved, and even, to some extent, quality of life saved with your scarce supply," he added. "I don't see why we wouldn't be doing that with COVID and vaccination status."
In transplant decisions, a key question: Who's most likely to live?
Healthcare systems across the US vie for organs from a national waitlist managed by the nonprofit United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). UNOS has guidelines for how to make the best use of a limited organ supply and prevent discrimination based on demographic factors like sex, religion, or financial status. But health systems can determine independently whether to add or remove someone from the waitlist.
"The general principle driving the list used to be, 'Who's sickest? Who's going to die if they don't get it?'" Caplan said. "That slowly has been shifting toward, 'Who's most likely to live, and how do we get the most benefit from the scarce supply?'"
There are a few reasons for that, he added: Organ transplants started to have a better success rate around the early 2000s, so transplant centers began to worry more about "wasting" organs on people who were likely to die anyway. Transplant centers are also evaluated based on their success rates, which can inform whether they remain eligible for organs from UNOS.
"That puts even more pressure to have organs that work for one year, two years, and five years," Caplan said. "So they are in a way incentivized not to take higher-risk people - and that would include non-vaccinated people for both flu and COVID."
Many medical experts agree that it's important to consider a person's vaccination status ahead of a transplant, along with other risk factors.
Transplant patients have a much higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than the average person, since their immune systems do a poorer job of vanquishing the virus. Studies have shown that kidney transplant recipients with COVID-19 have a mortality rate between 13% and 39%.
(The COVID-19 mortality rate across the entire US is around 1.6%.)
There's also a small risk that transplant patients will receive an organ from someone who's had COVID-19, and could therefore inherit a previously undetected infection.
Overall, unvaccinated Americans are 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than fully vaccinated Americans, according to a September study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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2021-10-07 at 2:55 PM UTCif they were serious about 'maximising years of life saved' they would've started with more impactful criteria such as obesity, old age, or even things like drug abuse or violent criminal historyThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-10-07 at 2:57 PM UTCBOGART THAT JOINT, MY FRIEND...DON'T PASS IT OVER TO ME (while you got the Covid)
Newsweek
Marijuana Use Could Make COVID Breakthrough Cases More Likely
Aila Slisco
Marijuana use may lead to a significantly higher risk of contracting COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated, according to the results of a new study.
A new study suggests that those who use marijuana and have substance use disorder are at a higher risk of developing breakthrough infections of COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated.
The study was published Tuesday in the journal World Psychiatry and focused on COVID-19 "breakthrough" infections in fully vaccinated people diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD), a condition that involves uncontrolled dependence on substances including marijuana, alcohol, cocaine, opioids and tobacco. While breakthrough infections were seen in 3.6 percent of vaccinated people without SUD, the study found that 7 percent of those with SUD had breakthrough infections.
At 7.8 percent, the risk of breakthrough infections was highest among those with marijuana use disorder. For every other type of substance, the apparently increased risk of contracting COVID-19 after being fully vaccinated disappeared when researchers accounted for factors like underlying health conditions, housing difficulties or economic hardships. The study speculated that the increased risk that remained in those using marijuana could be due to behavioral differences or the effects that the drug has on lungs or the immune system.
"Patients with cannabis use disorder, who were younger and had less comorbidities than the other SUD subtypes, had higher risk for breakthrough infection even after they were matched for adverse socioeconomic determinants of health and comorbid medical conditions with non-SUD patients," the researchers wrote. "Additional variables, such as behavioral factors or adverse effects of cannabis on pulmonary and immune function, could contribute to the higher risk for breakthrough infection in this group."
The study also found that those who received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine were at a greater risk of breakthrough infection than those who received the Moderna vaccine—findings that are in line with other research that has suggested the Moderna vaccine offers more protection against highly contagious Delta variant. Antibodies that protect against the virus are also believed to diminish in Pfizer recipients faster than in those who received the Moderna vaccine.
The study was led by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which is part of the National Institutes of Health. It is not clear that the conclusions of the study apply to casual or medical marijuana users, as it was narrowly focused on those with SUD. The researchers noted that, despite the apparently increased risk of breakthrough infections, the overall rate of infection in fully vaccinated people with SUD was still low when compared to the unvaccinated.
"First and foremost, vaccination is highly effective for people with substance use disorders, and the overall risk of COVID-19 among vaccinated people with substance use disorders is very low," NIDA Director Dr. Nora D. Volkow, one of the study's lead authors, said in a statement. "We must continue to encourage and facilitate COVID-19 vaccination among people with substance use disorders, while also acknowledging that even after vaccination, this group is at an increased risk and should continue to take protective measures against COVID-19." -
2021-10-07 at 3:01 PM UTCpeople lacking inhibition and prone to close-quarters social interaction more likely to contract viruses, SHOCKING
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2021-10-07 at 3:11 PM UTCNear the end, everyone will be locked inside their homes, they will get an amount which will allow them just enough to survive, all their possessions will be confiscated, and they'll be injected with experimental communications devices regularly.
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2021-10-07 at 3:13 PM UTCIn your case, Speculum, all of those devices will be inserted anally for your enjoyment.
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2021-10-07 at 3:14 PM UTC
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2021-10-07 at 3:20 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Business Insider
One of Colorado's largest health systems is denying organ transplants to most unvaccinated people
insider@insider.com
(The COVID-19 mortality rate across the entire US is around 1.6%.)
2021-10-06 at 2 AM UTC
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Space Nigga
You'd have to be stupid idiot to risk your life for a virus with a 99.97% recovery rate. They're the same kind of low-IQ morons who double mask while driving alone in their car.
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2021-10-07 at 3:23 PM UTC
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2021-10-07 at 3:31 PM UTCDARPA is one of the real enemies of humanity, and they openly admit it. They call it the "Brain Initiative".
https://www.darpa.mil/program/our-research/darpa-and-the-brain-initiative
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2021-10-07 at 3:35 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 2021-10-06 at 2 AM UTC
Report #1272
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Space Nigga
You'd have to be stupid idiot to risk your life for a virus with a 99.97% recovery rate. They're the same kind of low-IQ morons who double mask while driving alone in their car.
WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE, BUSINESS INSIDER OR SPECULUM?
i would rather trust spectral than people at "bussiness insider" whom none of them is in the bussiness sector. -
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