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2022-02-01 at 12:57 AM UTC in This is not a "sex" forumWords like ding-dong, schlong, dick, pecker, peter and weenie don't belong here.
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2022-02-01 at 12:52 AM UTC in Is sleeping outside/being homeless hard?
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2022-02-01 at 12:48 AM UTC in Someone is doing something with totse.com
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready I thought the CIA trained Osama Bin Laden in 1980-81 when the Russians invaded Afghanistan.
This is fucking silly. TOTSE trained them. SURE THEY DID. so they logged onto totse and made these threats to trace back to Osama Bin Laden so Bush, Saudi Arabia and Israel could shift this shit onto Suddam Hussain who was a threat on both Israel and Saudis after he tried to invade Kuwait and take it over in 1991.
this information they transferred to PDF from totse was first on dialup totse.
this shit is thick with lies.
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2022-02-01 at 12:38 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2022-02-01 at 12:37 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
Originally posted by stl1 NBC News
Taking unvaccinated man off heart transplant list is tragic — but ethical
Opinion by J. Russell Teagarden and Arthur L. Caplan
Taking unvaccinated man off heart transplant list is tragic — but ethical
D.J. Ferguson, a 31-year-old father of two children with a third on the way, was lying near death at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston last week. He was waiting for a heart transplant, and his failing heart put him high on the transplant eligibility list. But then the hospital removed him from the list because he is not vaccinated against Covid-19. As tragic as this is likely to be for Ferguson and his family, we think the hospital made the right decision.
Organs are always in very short supply, forcing hospitals and transplant teams to decide who gets them. Hospitals rightly place considerable importance on which recipients are likely to live longer and better, preventing the waste of a precious resource and building trust that transplantation processes are consistent, reasonable and fair. The likelihood of transplant success is based, in part, on transplant candidates’ susceptibility to infections — an important cause of death after heart transplants. Ferguson’s decision not to get vaccinated against Covid makes him more susceptible to such infections.
Professional transplantation societies, such as the American Society of Transplantation, have recommended that any solid organ transplant candidate be vaccinated against all possible infections, including Covid. Many hospitals doing transplants have adopted these recommendations. The Brigham and Women’s vaccination requirements are a matter of public record, so the requirements should not surprise anyone.
Accordingly, in picking who gets a heart, hospitals have made vaccination one of a variety of considerations. That is not bias against the unvaccinated. It is trying to save the most lives with a scarce organ supply.
Covid vaccination requirements for transplant candidates are not addressing theoretical concerns. Researchers analyzing outcomes of solid organ transplant patients have found that more of them with Covid infections at the time of transplantation died in the hospital, more required mechanical ventilation, and more required time in ICUs than patients not infected.
Another consideration involves donor families. The decision to donate an organ can be excruciating, as most viable organs become available when an otherwise healthy person dies suddenly. The grieving family may have only a matter of hours after it is informed of the death of their loved one to decide whether to donate organs. In many instances, families agree to this because they know they can contribute to extending the lives of others who would perish for lack of organs.
Families who make decisions to donate are owed rationing policies that make the most out of their gifts. A family would in all likelihood feel aggrieved if the organ they agreed to donate went to a candidate with less of a chance to benefit than others, especially when those chances were diminished by a personal decision not to vaccinate.
Transplant centers also have to consider what offering organ transplants to unvaccinated candidates signals about their commitment to thoughtful use of their services and patient safety. Would this willingness make their constituencies wonder what other policies and processes work against the public good and individuals? Disregarding clinical evidence and standards of care concerning vaccination requirements for transplant candidates could make people wonder.
All this is to say that in general terms, giving a lower priority to people seeking solid organ transplantation who are not vaccinated against Covid is justifiable on ethical and clinical grounds. These general terms do not preclude consideration of individual patient circumstances that could yield exceptions to the Covid vaccination requirement. But from what we know about Ferguson’s case, should Brigham and Women’s make an exception for him? Our answer is no.
Had Ferguson’s heart failure arisen unexpectedly from a devastating heart attack, then time would not have allowed Covid vaccination in advance of transplantation. However, he had reasons to have been vaccinated before such an event, which does not make an exemption from the vaccination requirement reasonable. And Ferguson’s predicament probably did not arise overnight; he needs a heart transplant because of a hereditary condition causing heart failure.
Ferguson is young, with a still-expanding family. This scenario matters in the calculation, as well. When everything else is equal, Ferguson’s youth and family situation ought to get priority. But given how many vaccinated people need transplants and the importance of transplantation system integrity, Ferguson’s family situation is not sufficient to prioritize him for a transplant, especially considering he made the choice not to be vaccinated.
Family members report two different reasons for Ferguson’s not getting vaccinated. His father said vaccination was “against his basic principles, he really doesn’t believe in it. … It’s his body, it’s his choice.” His mother says, “There are some adverse reactions he read about given his condition, and he made his decision.” Neither of these rationales is persuasive. Adverse vaccine reactions are the least of a transplant candidates’ worries. And standing on principle if it means lowering your chances of living means it is time to rethink your principles.
As the pandemic enters its third year, most of the public has had the opportunity to become educated about it. Ferguson’s mother, a trained nurse, confirmed that her son “is an informed patient.”
As his mother also said, Ferguson made his choice. Choices have consequences, sometimes very tragic consequences. In the meantime, Ferguson agreed to a left ventricular assist device, which should buy him enough time to get vaccinated. Let’s hope he rethinks his choice with the time he has been given.
Sure it's ethical. It's ethical for low-intelligence, fascist, brainwashed, ugly, treasonous rats like you, who are going straight to hell when the time comes. -
2022-02-01 at 12:34 AM UTC in Some UFO reports represent visitations by Non-Human Intelligences of Extraterrestrial Origin
Originally posted by stl1 Given the vast differences (light years) in space between objects and the fact that we have never gotten any radio signals from another planet and the fact that there has never been conclusive proof or evidence found of alien life, I tend to think that we have never been visited by aliens from another world.
That said, I find it almost impossible that there is not life, of one sort or the other, out there. Intelligent life occurring on the same timeline as ours could be highly unlikely. Just look at how many millions of years that dinosaurs ruled the Earth. They still would be ruling today and man would have probably never evolved to rule the planet had we not been hit by the asteroid that killed the dinosaur and changed Earth's direction.
I can hardly wait for that fancy new James Webb telescope to begin sending back pictures!
Only a born idiot would think tens of millions of reports over a span of thousands of years equals nothing at all to see there, that not one of them is legitimate. You seriously have an IQ in the double digits, and it really shows in the way your shallow-brain pan produces opinions. -
2022-01-31 at 12:51 AM UTC in Someone is doing something with totse.com
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2022-01-31 at 12:46 AM UTC in Some UFO reports represent visitations by Non-Human Intelligences of Extraterrestrial Origin
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2022-01-31 at 12:40 AM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!I demand a last meal and cigarette.
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2022-01-31 at 12:38 AM UTC in What if UDOs are plasmoids?
Originally posted by Meikai i'd think that was pretty rad, the idea that two intelligent species are native to one planet would appeal to me greatly. if i was put in charge of the investigation i'd appoint someone who knew what the fuck they were actually doing, first and foremost.
also i think we shud launch tardigrades in every conceivable direction and seed life throughout the galaxy to the best of our ability. it's our duty.
Would you hug an alien? -
2022-01-31 at 12:36 AM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sOnce a bunch of treasonous rats entrench themselves into the top levels of government, it's almost impossible to get them out.
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2022-01-31 at 12:25 AM UTC in Hey Red. Good GameBro
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2022-01-30 at 10:33 PM UTC in You ever wish you were called "Johnny The Nintendo Kid"?
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2022-01-30 at 10:32 PM UTC in What are you doing at the moment
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2022-01-30 at 10:27 PM UTC in Hey Red. Good GameBro
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2022-01-30 at 10:26 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!Like, as in, "Not soo fas".
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2022-01-30 at 10:25 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty's
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2022-01-30 at 10:22 PM UTC in Hey Red. Good GameBro
Originally posted by Quick Mix Ready Also my movie stops and starts
cause of this I guess
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – Nearly 30,000 Comcast customers are experiencing “service disruption” in Oakland on Sunday.
Comcast began texting customers with updates around 5 a.m.
Comcast say multiple bullets hit a fiber and took down all services to customers in the area.
“We deeply apologize for this situation, especially amidst the playoff games taking place today,” Comcast officials told KRON4.
Comcast teams are working as quickly as possible to restore services.
KRON4 has also reached out to Oakland police for response.
Actually, it's because they are currently shutting down 3G/4G service and implementing 5G service, across the board. Canada is next. -
2022-01-30 at 10:19 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
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2022-01-30 at 9:39 PM UTC in STICK IT, Damn It!
