Divemedic

Amazon’s customer service is horrible. I pay for Amazon prime. This costs $80 a year, and you are supposed to get free two day shipping on in stock items. On Thursday the 4th, I ordered two books that I need for work, and the items were listed as being in stock. I expected them by Monday the 8th. They haven’t even shipped yet, and the expected delivery date is now showing up as next Friday the 12th. I tried to cancel the order, and a reply by automated message said that I could not, because the items had already shipped.

So, I contacted customer service, and they said:

We normally obtain the books from a supplier who can
usually send it to us as soon as possible from the time your order is placed;
however; in this case, the supplier has taken longer than expected to make this
item available.

Our reliance on suppliers and manufacturers for
information about their stock means that, occasionally, our database will not
reflect all changes.

I’ve checked and it looks like
we’re waiting to receive more inventories for your book. Though we’re unable to
give exact date when we can obtain stock or ship your order at this time but
rest assured that we’re working with our suppliers so that we can try to have
your order shipped as soon as possible. I hope you’ll understand that we do our
best to ensure that all of our customer orders leave our fulfillment centers as
fast as we can.

It seems like the ATF is a bit angry at the 3D handgun printing project. They are giving the folks a hard time about it, and claiming that manufacturing a pistol without a manufacturers license is against the law, even if you have no intention of selling it. That is not in keeping with longstanding regulations.

In related news, the manufacturer of the printer has revoked the printer lease. I wonder if the ATF had anything to do with that.

The comments on the article are pretty stupid: this is all necessary to prevent terrorists from printing guns. As if you can’t already buy full auto AK47s made by hand in a cave in Afghanistan for $15.

If you remember, I posted a few months back about a push to have a referendum on the ballot for voters to approve a law that would require Orange County employers offer sick leave to their employees. The law would require that an employer give employees one hour off with pay for each 37 hours the employee works. This will increase labor costs by at least three percent.

Of course, there were lawsuits. Unfortunately for the socialists, they sued the wrong person. By the time they got around to suing the correct one, it was too late to stop the ballots, which were already being printed.

The thinking astounds me. The proponents of the law say that “it’s wrong for employees to be punished financially if they’re too ill to come into work.” but see no problem with punishing a business financially if the employee doesn’t work.

Looks like the “Captain of a Crew of One” has had a bit of a mutiny, unless we are to believe that he has posted 46 posts today about cutting hair…

A firefighter is forced to resign for writing a Facebook post after a call where a
2-year-old was hit by a car, allegedly stating that the child was
unattended and asking where the mother was.

How many times have we all
wondered the same thing? It’s a shame that a man has lost his job, and
three others are facing discipline, while the irresponsible parent gets
nothing for allowing this child to be out on the street to be injured.

Public safety agencies are so worried about this politically correct attitude, so afraid of ruffling feathers, that they  would rather hang employees out to dry than ask why a 2 year old was on the street unsupervised.

Yet another reason why I retired. 

Medic Protip of the day: Sepsis in an infant causes intravascular volume
depletion via increased capillary permeability and vasodilation. This is a form of distributive shock. The therapy of choice for pediatric patients with sepsis (as evidenced by tachycardia and increased capillary refill time in a febrile patient) is bolus doses of isotonic crystalloid or colloid fluids. This should be done until perfusion improves, or new onset rales develops. Dose is 10-20 ml/kg, titrated to heart rate, capillary refill, urinary output, and changes in level of consciousness.

So I sat through a class this week that has been given to all military personnel for the past through years, called Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). The course was being taken by a variety of students, including two cops, five paramedics, two paramedic students, six firemedics, and a prepper.

The instructor introduces the course, and says how topical and important it is, because of spree shooters, and how they present a great risk to rescuers. He then mentions that the recent shooting in New York, and holds it up as an example of why the course is so important.

So I pointed out to him that 10 of the 11 people shot in the incident were shot by the responders. He argued with me and told me how wrong I was, until another student backed me up. His comment at that point was “Oh well, casualties of war.”

That is the mentality that is present in the police force, summed up in one conversation.