Divemedic

Pay Attention

In my post the other day, I thought my readers would catch the sleight of hand. The person who made that meme is manipulating you, and I thought it was obvious. The person who made it is playing games with conversion math. They are converting from dollars to PMs, then claiming this as the basis of a ‘study’ finding that a person making minimum wage in 1970 has a lifestyle the same as someone making $100,000 per year today. 

A person in 1970 making minimum wage most certainly didn’t live the same lifestyle of someone making minimum wage today. In 1972, my father moved to Orlando to be an engineer for Hewlett Packard. He was making $6500 a year, which was double the minimum wage. I was a young child then, and we lived in that apartment until I was in middle school. We weren’t wealthy by any means. The apartment we lived in was an 850 square foot, 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment that was built in 1969 and is still there, but was converted into a condo at some point. I was just looking at it online, and Zillow places it at $91k.

It was in South Orlando, and the area was mostly families working at nearby Martin Marietta back then. It’s a relatively high crime area now. The point is, my father was making a bit under the median salary back then, and we didn’t have anything close to a $100k lifestyle.

The study and meme are being circulated by those commies in the Democrat party to make you hate “capitalism” so they can usher in their Marxist Utopia.

Don’t fall for that shit. It’s propaganda.

By Divemedic, ago

That Didn’t Last Long

Once my employer stopped paying nurses bonus money for coming in when staffing was short, nurses naturally stopped coming in. I know I did. I stopped taking extra shifts, because my time off was worth more than the little bit of extra cash. I mean, I only work one day per week, sometimes two if I feel like it.

So now the ED is back to a staffing shortage.

So badly that I was called this morning and asked to work an extra shift today. I turned it down, because I am already working four 12 hour shifts this week, and had been cheated out of two of my three bonuses I was told I could have until they cancelled the bonus system.

So then they offered me a $25 per hour bonus if I would come in. OK, so I am working 60 hours this week. That’s just more money in the IRA for the future. I can be a whore like that sometimes. I guess they need to keep the emergency room open more than they need to save money.

By Divemedic, ago

Defending Democracy

54% of Americans think the Supreme Court is too political and favors President Trump. Only 3 in 10 Americans support the electoral college, with 63% of those surveyed thinking the President should be elected by popular vote. At least according to left leaning think tanks and propaganda sites like The Hill.

The Democrats have a plan. They want to expand SCOTUS to 13 Justices and eliminate the electoral college. Oh, and add Puerto Rico and DC as states.

We know the end goal- they have already told us.

  • Free healthcare
  • Legalize all drugs
  • Eliminate minimum prison sentences
  • Eliminate cash bail
  • Free college
  • Nationwide rent control
  • Free lawyers for all tenants in rental disputes
  • More government housing
  • Paid family leave
  • Free childcare
  • 32 hour workweek with no change in weekly pay
  • Nationwide right for unions and to strike
  • Green New Deal
  • Raise taxes on the richest earners, for-profit corporations, large inheritances, and private colleges and universities.
  • Establish a wealth tax
  • Free Palestine
  • Cut military
  • Close overseas military bases, bring all troops home
  • Open borders
  • Complete amnesty
  • Cancel all economic sanctions against all nations
  • Voting rights to all residents, including felons and illegal immigrants
  • DC statehood
  • Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy through proportional representation elections.
  • Expand the number of seats in the House of Representatives
  • end the Senate filibuster.
  • Limit the Court’s power of judicial review which it uses to effectively create and abolish laws outside the legislative process.
  • eliminate the Electoral College
  • eliminate the Senate

Be prepared. Things are going to get bumpy.

By Divemedic, ago

CW2

Low intensity warfare continues. In Mecklenburg county, NC the county commission will be 100% Democrat after the only Republican in the race was forced to drop out of the race after shots were fired at his home in March, but police and the FBI haven’t made headway in the investigation.

Investigators have said the shooting appeared to be targeted. Marin previously told WBTV that he was inside the home with his wife and two young children when the shots were fired. Bullets appeared to hit cars, a tree, basketball hoop and mailbox on his property.

Mecklenburg County now has a one-party election because political intimidation worked. The attacker did more than terrorize a family. He stripped every Republican voter in that district of a choice.

By Divemedic, ago

Good Shoot

I often say that I judge cops by their actions- cops are human, and they can be just as flawed, just as right, or just as wrong as anyone else. In the case below, they are 100% in the right. They tried to arrest him. He resisted. Then he produced a knife and stabbed one of them. Another cop tried a TASER, but it didn’t work.

So the cop who had been stabbed put three slugs into his noggin. I don’t see an issue with this shoot.

However, leftists in Madison, WI have formed the Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone (CRAZ) at the location in Madison where the shooting occurred. Instead of shutting down the idiots that have taken over a two block area, the city of Madison is actively assisting the idiots.

The cops should go on strike.

The zones have been updated. Madison, Kenosha, and Milwaukee are all now zone 3:

Zone three cities are areas where violence has has taken place with little to no attempt at mitigating response from local authorities. Additionally, police and/or prosecutors are likely to bring the full weight of the law down upon those who attempt to defend themselves from these actors, or those who speak out against them.

By Divemedic, ago

How Many of Them Voted?

A woman in Tampa was pulled over by deputies because her taillights were out. She initially told police she didn’t have a driver’s license and gave a fake name. That’s the least unusual part of this story.

It turns out the Canadian woman had twelve different driver’s licenses, each with a different name and date of birth listed.

But hey, illegals are law abiding citizens, right? How many of those identities voted, I wonder.

By Divemedic, ago

COVID

So facts about COVID from someone who was (eventually) on the front lines. You can read my reports on things to your heart’s content by clicking here. It’s a chronicle of COVID as we lived it.

When COVID first came around, I was still teaching high school, but my son was working in the emergency room in Harlem. The things he reported to me and saw with his own eyes were incredible. COVID was certainly killing people, and it was doing it wholesale.

The hospital ships sent to New York went largely unused. Not because there were no sick people to be had, but because of the requirements. Patients had to be sent there with a 30 day supply of whatever medications they required. They couldn’t have an active COVID infection, and those are just the two I remember. I know there were more, but that’s what I have after 6 years.

The stories he told had me convinced it was real. It’s what pushed me to come out of my semi-retired life to go back to medicine. I spent the first eight months of my return working on the COVID wing for some of my shifts. The hospital had a COVID wing because all elective procedures had been cancelled, and they were using the floor for that for COVID patients. The things I saw convinced me that COVID was real. I am also convinced it was an engineered bio weapon.

COVID was a real pandemic, hospitals were being overrun, and that is just how it was. So why were there videos of nurses dancing? Nurses have specialties, and it takes years to retrain a nurse in a different specialty. If you look closely at the areas where the dancing videos were taking place, they look like PACU to me (Post Anesthesia Care Unit). That is an area where nurses care for patients after surgery. Since all elective procedures were canceled, the majority of surgical nurses had nothing to do.

So many people were hospitalized for it because there was a financial incentive. Hospitals were paid extra for COVID patients, so they tested everyone for it. If you broke your leg and had to be hospitalized, you got a COVID test. If it was positive, that Dx got added to your chart, and the hospital made more money.

Ivermectin doesn’t seem to really help. I tried it. No other treatments really work, either. It’s a virus, and most viruses have to simply run their course. The vaccine doesn’t do anything. I took two doses of the Moderna vaccine and still got COVID three times. Still, as infectious diseases do, they kill in their early form, then become deadly as the generations go on. That’s just how viruses work. It just amazes me that it became less deadly so quickly.

Infections kill. That’s a fact of life, and it’s your immune system that decides whether or not you die. It’s either up to the task or it isn’t. Especially with viruses.

Do I believe the US had a hand in creating the virus? I do. Do I think Fauci was part of it? I do.

By Divemedic, ago

Making the Rounds

This has been making the rounds on social media again:

The reason this is making the rounds is from a supposed ‘study’ finding that a person making minimum wage in 1970 has a lifestyle the same as someone making $100,000 per year today. That is pure, Grade-A horse shit. The above picture is where they got this from, and it’s easily tossed aside.

A person making the Federal minimum wage today gets $7.50 per hour, or $15,600 per year. If he is paid in $50 gold eagle coins, he would receive 312 of them in a year. Those 312 coins are made of gold and would have a melt value of $1,279,200. So I can say that a person making minimum wage today has the same purchasing power of someone who makes $1.2 million.

It’s just a bait and switch for idiots.

By Divemedic, ago