You know that’s not true

Oh I thought it was just a couple random people getting squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room? So you admit that it’s an organized effort. I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone move their goalposts in the wrong direction before lmao

Outlawing gender affirming medical care has zero impact on sports, you willful liar. No, the truth is that the people behind this movement are targeting trans people because they’re the most convenient vulnerable group to rally hateful bigots around right now. Gay people are acceptable, the dog caught the car on the abortion “debate,” and they need a new boogeyman to leverage to whip votes

There only being that one playbook is the exact reason why I have a patch on my backpack that reads: “Evil is boring”

Also the cat attacking my bird feeder

Having your literal survival threatened has a way of focusing the attention. We’re already reaching the point where people can’t afford the bread and circuses.

He followed Glenn Greenwald down the “I feel like people don’t respect my leftism enough, so I’m gonna join the alt-right” path

A time lapse of every nuclear explosion in history:

https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY?si=ea33jGG-8YECLmLk

Well, I guess at least you’re just a bigot and not also a hypocrite.

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt.
—Exodus 23:9 (NIV)”

https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-does-bible-say-about-refugees#:~:text=Foreigners%20or%20refugees%20are%20not%20to%20be%20oppressed.&text=Israelites%20were%20to%20call%20on,of%20them%20in%20any%20way.

I hope you don’t call yourself a Christian.

We have to pay for the services we use somehow. I’d rather it be cash than the details of my entire life. But the money to operate those services has to come from somewhere

The secret ingredient is ✨🌈 misogyny ✨🌈

Stop lying. The massive, coordinated effort to outlaw gender affirming medical care is so much more than “a couple people feel squicky about trans ladies using the ladies room.”

benefits and protections generally reserved for females

Omfg, please leave right now

Lmfao

Oof, yeah. It’ll be time to break out my N95s again

Herd animals gonna herd animal ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anticipation of surge? We’re already on the downslope of a recent tiny surge up here in the Boston area:

https://www.mwra.com/biobot/biobotdata.htm

Yes, but that’s different from subjective evidence and I think that’s part of the problem. There’s a difference between somatic symptoms and subjective evidence.

We differentiate between the two all the time without explicitly identifying it as such. “Patient says the feel a lot better this morning” vs. “patient says they still feel rotten” is valid subjective evidence that we really do take under consideration when evaluating treatment response.

Onset, duration, aggravating and alleviating factors, and consistency of reported symptoms are all things that distinguish evidentiary subjective reports from somatic ones. I’ve walked psychotic patients through things that were distressing to them that I knew were somatic. And I’ve caught “real” things where the patient subjective report was really the only indication we had. It IS possible to differentiate.

Granted, this demands more time than the corporations we work for would like to permit us to spend with our patients. Which is a huge part of the problem that we should all be protesting.

Trained people become impervious to chemical fumes.

The problem is the complete dismissal of subjective evidence as being a valid form of evidence. We have deified objective evidence to the point of hubris, denying the existence of anything that doesn’t show up easily using our current technology. In my experience, it’s less often gaslighting and more often an embarrassing lack of epistemological humility and a pretense that we are have somehow reached the pinnacle of medical technology already and have nothing left to learn.

We’re here to treat patients, not test results. If a patient is reporting that they are experiencing distressing symptoms or that something is making them feel better or worse, they deserve to be taken at their word. Ignoring them because our current tests are not sophisticated enough to identify everything invalidates their subjective experience, and that’s not patient centered care.

This is the real issue when people are talking about medical gaslighting. Every endometriosis patient being told for years on end that their debilitating symptoms are “normal” period pain. The embarrassing statistics on how long it takes someone with an autoimmune disease to be correctly diagnosed.

We’ve become too impressed with our technological toys and forgot how to see the real human beings in front of us.

Agreed wholeheartedly. That said, Oppenheimer is officially the only biopic I’ve ever watched twice and will definitely watch again someday. Which makes it my favorite biopic, for whatever that is worth about a genre that I loathe.