Sep 29, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com
Reading this list, I'm remembering a conversation I had last night with a young couple who met while working in a nursing home. Their description of the work made me second guess my idea that we should make the people who own the banks, political leadership, medical leadership, military leadership etc washing bed pans for $10hr for the next decade at least.
But that would be a terrible thing to do to the elderly, making such psychopaths take care of them.
I fully support getting vaccinated against hurricanes because I have been vaccinated against lightning strikes and also being run over by a steam train and I must say that these vaccinations are 100% effective and I am only alive today because of them. Trust the science folks! 👍🏻
I trust the science of correlation over causation 🤡
I had to share this one. The "gift" URL at the very end should break the paywall. I just spit out my drink:
"Where Are All Our Post-Covid Patients?"
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"Two years ago, during the worst of the Covid pandemic, my colleagues and I told ourselves what now seems like a naïve story.
In the wake of this virus, we would develop a robust system of follow-up care for the patients who had been sickest in our hospital, many of whom were from medically underserved communities. We knew that survivors of severe illness and lengthy hospitalization were likely to be affected by the unintended legacy of critical care, termed post-intensive care syndrome — anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and cognitive dysfunction. To say nothing of the scarred lungs and profound weakness that could come from weeks on a ventilator.
With this in mind, we developed the Covid Recovery Center, a clinic — like many others throughout the country — dedicated to serving patients who had been stricken with Covid-19 and its aftereffects. Surely those who bore the brunt of this illness would benefit from dedicated screening and follow-up that might not otherwise be accessible to them.
And yet when it opened, the clinic was deluged with self-referrals from patients who had not been hospitalized. Instead, they were experiencing what we now know as “long Covid” — a constellation of debilitating fatigue, shortness of breath, neurologic symptoms and more that can occur even after mild infection.
Many came to the clinic desperate. Their symptoms — racing hearts and brain fog so devastating that they were unable to work — needed to be addressed. But we were left wondering about everyone we weren’t seeing in that group: all the people we treated in the I.C.U., the non-English-speaking patients who had been transferred to us from hospitals in outlying communities.
Still, of the more than 1,200 patients seen at our clinic between April 2021 and April 2022, nearly 80 percent were white and just over 70 percent were female. In contrast, it seemed those that we cared for in the hospital, particularly in the first pandemic wave, were disproportionately Black and Hispanic men. “Looking at the data, we know we’re not seeing the patients who bore the brunt of Covid hospitalizations,” Dr. Gay told me.
Rather than asking whether climate change is real or not, why don't we ask whether our present life styles are making us happy? Is continual pleasant distraction necessary for happiness? Does it bring a sense of peace? If we really got it that happiness comes from the inside, rather than from the outside, we would probably live a radically different life style and the climate would change, the earth would be thankful, and we would be more powerful than we could imagine.
Reading this list, I'm remembering a conversation I had last night with a young couple who met while working in a nursing home. Their description of the work made me second guess my idea that we should make the people who own the banks, political leadership, medical leadership, military leadership etc washing bed pans for $10hr for the next decade at least.
But that would be a terrible thing to do to the elderly, making such psychopaths take care of them.
What is the source for the digital yuan having an expiration date?
Thank you very much Mr Emperor.
Just when I think we can't get anymore depressed, we end with the POTUS and his advice.
I think you might guess where I suggest he put his advice.
I fully support getting vaccinated against hurricanes because I have been vaccinated against lightning strikes and also being run over by a steam train and I must say that these vaccinations are 100% effective and I am only alive today because of them. Trust the science folks! 👍🏻
I trust the science of correlation over causation 🤡
I had to share this one. The "gift" URL at the very end should break the paywall. I just spit out my drink:
"Where Are All Our Post-Covid Patients?"
_______________
"Two years ago, during the worst of the Covid pandemic, my colleagues and I told ourselves what now seems like a naïve story.
In the wake of this virus, we would develop a robust system of follow-up care for the patients who had been sickest in our hospital, many of whom were from medically underserved communities. We knew that survivors of severe illness and lengthy hospitalization were likely to be affected by the unintended legacy of critical care, termed post-intensive care syndrome — anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and cognitive dysfunction. To say nothing of the scarred lungs and profound weakness that could come from weeks on a ventilator.
With this in mind, we developed the Covid Recovery Center, a clinic — like many others throughout the country — dedicated to serving patients who had been stricken with Covid-19 and its aftereffects. Surely those who bore the brunt of this illness would benefit from dedicated screening and follow-up that might not otherwise be accessible to them.
And yet when it opened, the clinic was deluged with self-referrals from patients who had not been hospitalized. Instead, they were experiencing what we now know as “long Covid” — a constellation of debilitating fatigue, shortness of breath, neurologic symptoms and more that can occur even after mild infection.
Many came to the clinic desperate. Their symptoms — racing hearts and brain fog so devastating that they were unable to work — needed to be addressed. But we were left wondering about everyone we weren’t seeing in that group: all the people we treated in the I.C.U., the non-English-speaking patients who had been transferred to us from hospitals in outlying communities.
Still, of the more than 1,200 patients seen at our clinic between April 2021 and April 2022, nearly 80 percent were white and just over 70 percent were female. In contrast, it seemed those that we cared for in the hospital, particularly in the first pandemic wave, were disproportionately Black and Hispanic men. “Looking at the data, we know we’re not seeing the patients who bore the brunt of Covid hospitalizations,” Dr. Gay told me.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/opinion/post-covid-care.html?unlocked_article_code=lJyYQ9eBKG1ColTwDVrCTn_BQlxyiYePicjxvoMcfjoNhXZL9uebxPKpes9ojahKrWn5KgIQ15r9S-ti8w-blnW76NPiIZoonNlu_Sl-n9WHgTo-noxBKYJ_8gudexjtGcdj3InGe46vnCopd1GjVOp2sEns6XM3_eWIKrAIm_1LxNscMo-isHKFfoE4R05ijALhoI3zZqvPU0yoeCsaFJnZ9f-v69-KNTSA0UBzhdXOVZhP_9jjN4PCsDzwFcpE2DA2ovFNCs_nnClnhq1tBSe_LZakzaRH2JtwYJOEN2xNMz13S1RmsHlM3ywe-9ukz3Cn-8RSi21yew&smid=share-url
Rather than asking whether climate change is real or not, why don't we ask whether our present life styles are making us happy? Is continual pleasant distraction necessary for happiness? Does it bring a sense of peace? If we really got it that happiness comes from the inside, rather than from the outside, we would probably live a radically different life style and the climate would change, the earth would be thankful, and we would be more powerful than we could imagine.
Hope no hurricane comes in my way otherwise huge trouble ahead besides that I'm already dead of covid.