Divemedic

Merry Christmas

Although I confess that I am an atheist, I have much in common with those of the Christian religion. Nearly all of the values that are prized by those of faith: honesty, family, forgiveness, duty, honor, I share with you. Each of those values are ideals that we can hang on to during the times that are here, and through the tougher times that are coming. It is through our love of each other that we will be able to get through the times to come.

It is during this, the holiest of the holidays of the Christian faith, that we pause to reflect on our lives and the things that we hold dear. We need to be with family and cherish those who are most important to us. I have spent time this Christmas with my wife, my daughter, and my grandchildren. My life is going well, financially, romantically, and otherwise. I have much to be thankful for, and I am in a better position that the vast majority of humanity. I have a wife who loves me, a roof over my head, and I am not worried about whether or not I will be able to eat today. For just those simple things, I am better off than the majority of humanity.

Here is my hope to all of you that you find yourselves just as blessed, just as happy. Spend today with your families and enjoy the time that you have together, for there will come a time when that is no longer the case. Love those close to you. Spend time. Make memories.

Most of all, have a Merry Christmas. Even if you aren’t a Christian. Take a day off from worrying about the state of the world, our country, and just worry about yourself and your family. The world of worry will still be there waiting tomorrow. Until then, let’s hope for at least one more day of peace on Earth and goodwill towards our fellow man.

By Divemedic, ago

Investigation

I was originally going to take a few days off, but felt the need to report this. Until this morning, I was the subject of a criminal and work related investigation. I have been suspended without pay for the past week. I got the call this morning and have been cleared of all wrongdoing, just in time to return to work on Christmas Day.

I was at work a week and a half ago. Another nurse asked me to accompany her and a female technician into a patient’s room because he had been giving her some problems. I went into the room behind them, and the patient began referring to the technician as his wife. Then he accused the EMS personnel of laughing at him while they were trying to initiate an affair with his wife. Standing at his bedside, I told him that no one was making fun of him. He yelled, “You all are!” then tried getting out of bed. I touched his arm and told him to calm down. That’s when he grabbed me and tried pulling my arm to his mouth in order to bite me.

I put him in a wrist lock with one hand, then pressed on his parotid gland with the other, which forced his face into the pillow. He started kicking me and calling me a “punk ass bitch” and saying that he was a retired NYC police officer, and that he would find me on the street and “fucking kill” me.

He later contacted my employer and the police and attempted to file charges against me for battery.

The investigations took 9 days. My employer has suggested that I file counter charges, but since he was delusional, the police said any such charges would go nowhere. My employer told me that they were worried that since he was a retired cop that the local cops would take his side. I explained to him that the local cops don’t like NY cops because they constantly come down here and call the local cops a bunch of hicks and tell them how much better NYPD is.

At any rate, I can now return to work, just in time for Christmas day. At least I will get time and a half plus critical shortage bonus. ( Remember the critical needs bonuses that they cancelled back in September? They reinstated them three weeks ago, because they can’t get anyone to come to work without them.)

By Divemedic, ago

Show Trials

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are likely not on the side of freedom, but both have committed the same crime: being counterrevolutionary. For that, they must and will be destroyed.

Musk’s allowing free speech on Twitter cannot be permitted to stand, the left will destroy him. He will be removed from Twitter’s chair, or investors and the government will destroy all of his businesses.

For similar reasons, Trump will be prosecuted. As I have said for two years, Trump needs to flee. They won’t stop until he is in prison or dead.

It’s the next step in color revolutions per the CIA insurgency manual- counter revolutionaries must be eliminated.

If a man worth $200 billion cam be brought down, what chance does any of us have? We now know that the Intelligence Community has overthrown the legitimate government and seized power, using Biden as the front man. This is the most dangerous time in US history.

By Divemedic, ago

Puerto Rico Statehood

This issue comes up every decade or so, and here it is again. The Democrats passed a referendum to allow Puerto Ricans to select whether they want to be a state or be cut loose. It seems like the Democrats do this every few years to pander to the Hispanic vote, even though they know that there is no chance this will pass the Senate.

Puerto Rico is a socialist disaster of a state, and if we are being honest, the entire island more closely represents a third world shithole than it does the US. I’m talking politically and visually. The tax rates are high, with a corporate rate of 37.5%, a personal income tax at 33%, and 11.5% sales taxes. On top of all of that, residents also pay US Social Security taxes, but not Federal Income taxes. In exchange, the US pays about $40 billion a year to Puerto Rico. In all, the government of Puerto Rico takes in about $12 billion in taxes, plus the $40 billion in US Federal money for a population of about 3.6 million, or about $14,400 per capita.

There was a time when President Trump speculated on trading Puerto Rico for Greenland because the island is dirty and filled with poor people. Honestly, I don’t know of any country that would take that deal.

I would like to see the place get cut loose. I just don’t see the benefit that the island gives the US.

By Divemedic, ago

About the Fentanyl Incident

Since everyone on the Internet has been talking about the cop who claims to have been exposed to Fentanyl, I think it’s appropriate to talk about it. I think it’s a bullshit story. We give Fentanyl in the ED all of the time. We have patients who use it all of the time. I had one patient who was chewing on her Fentanyl patches. She didn’t overdose. Let’s talk about this story:

  1. Fentanyl isn’t readily absorbed through intact skin. Yes, there are Fentanyl patches, but they are specially formulated and take a long time to absorb. Think about it: if it were that easy to overdose on it, the drug dealers would be dropping from it before they could sell it.
  2. From the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and American Academy of Clinical Toxicology(AACT): “the risk of clinically significant exposure to emergency responders is extremely low. To date, we have not seen reports of emergency responders developing signs or symptoms consistent with opioid toxicity from incidental contact with opioids...Industrial producers of fentanyl use time-weighted average occupational exposure limits (OEL-TWA) for alfentanil (1mcg/m3), fentanyl (0.1 mcg/m3), and sufentanil (0.032 mcg/m3) to limit exposure. At the highest airborne concentration encountered by workers, an unprotected individual would require nearly 200 minutes of exposure to reach a dose of 100 mcg of Fentanyl. The vapor pressure of fentanyl is very low (4.6 x 10-6Pa) suggesting that evaporation of standing product into a gaseous phase is not a practical concern“
  3. In fact, there has never been a case of LEO opioid overdose that has been confirmed by toxicology.
  4. I watched the video. The symptoms that she is exhibiting are not consistent with opioid overdose. Her respirations are rapid and shallow, and her pupils are far too large for opioids. Nearly every viral story that I have seen is the same. Looks more like anxiety than it does opioids: Dizziness, feels like dying, racing heart, nausea. Look at the pupils.

In opioid overdoses, the pupils look more like this:

Look, I am not hating on the cops here. It’s just that they aren’t trained very well in this. Ever since they began giving Narcan to the cops to carry around, they give it all the time to almost everyone, even people who don’t need it. The cops got a short lecture on naloxone, less than 2 hours of training in some cases, then were turned loose. Now there are tons of companies making money selling “Fentanyl proof” gloves, and the legend grows with every viral, unsupported video.

The odd part is that multiple doctors have stopped in to the local news channel to report that this video looks nothing like an opiate overdose, but the news channel keeps deleting their comments. I wonder why.

By Divemedic, ago

I Don’t Care

So there is a lot of noise being made this morning about Musk banning certain reporters from Twitter. The claim is that Musk is a hypocrite because he claims to support free speech. Keep in mind that the bans are being done because multiple reporters have been tweeting out the location of Musk’s family, and the direct result of this was an attempt on Musk’s child’s life. Any parent would be pissed.

This is how the left operates. They have a bunch of public faces who don’t directly engage in violence, but who actively support violent acts. We see this as Antifa hiding within crowds of protesters. They are free to act as violent as they want, while other parties stand there and wait for a violent response from their target, so they can release carefully edited video making the counter attacking victims appear to be the ones who initiated the violence.

The opening shots of the war have been fired. There are already hundreds of casualties, and hundreds more being held as political prisoners. The left only claims principles like free speech matter when they can use that principle to attack those with whom they disagree. They couldn’t care one hairy rat’s ass about free speech. Let me illustrate. This reporter was mobbed and beaten while covering a drag queen story hour, her phone was stolen.

She tried to get another reporter to call 911. He refused while the protesters taunted her:

The answers to that on Twitter illustrate why there will be no care from me about hypocrisy. At this point, it is war. We need to win, and that is all that matters, because if we don’t, the other side won’t give on whit about your rights, about what is fair, or about anything else.

Fuck em, that’s why. Elon- ban away.

Also, please note that the entire Interstate 5 corridor from the Canadian border south to Eugene, Oregon (including all of Washington State) is an active combat zone. There have been more than a dozen documented fatalities in this area that are directly related to insurgent activity. Government authority has either effectively or openly sided with the insurgents and is providing them with active support. Anyone in these areas is advised that violence is occurring and will continue to occur in these areas, and for this reason the area should be avoided. Use of force in self defense will result in arrest. These areas are completely out of legitimate governmental control and can best be described as being behind enemy lines.

By Divemedic, ago

No Fly List for a Shirt?

Flying Waitress Claims that she can have a passenger put on “no fly list” for wearing FJB hoodie. I don’t think so.

To the people claiming that its a private airline and can do as it pleases: the no fly list is a government list. She is threatening him with arrest for wearing the wrong shirt. That is deprivation of rights under color of authority. I have a real problem with this

By Divemedic, ago