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Summer is Here

I know that summer in the northern hemisphere begins on the longest day of the year. Summer here in Central Florida, as far as I am concerned, begins when the low temperature for the day is 75 degF (24 C for those of you outside of the US). We hit that point this past week. Our morning low was 74.9 degF, and the dewpoint was right at the same temperature. The high was 92 degF (33 degC) today.

The reason for this, is that the low temperature can’t go any lower than the dew point. At that point, any further energy lost from the atmosphere is spent condensing water vapor, not reducing the temperature. When the dewpoint is at that point, the air starts becoming thick and the afternoon rains begin. If you have ever been in Central Florida during the summer, you know that it rains virtually every afternoon. That’s where we are now. Summer is here.

The dew point temperature is the temperature at which the air can no longer hold all of its water vapor, and some of the water vapor must condense into liquid water. At 100% relative humidity, the dew point temperature and the air temperature are the same, and clouds or fog can begin to form. While relative humidity is a relative measure of how humid it is, the dew point temperature is an absolute measure of how much water vapor is in the air (how humid it is). In very warm, humid conditions, the dew point temperature can reach 75 to 77 degrees F, but rarely exceeds 80 degrees.

Dew point is the best indicator of comfort in a hot climate. Once the dew point of the air exceeds 66 degrees Fahrenheit or so, the air begins to feel hot and uncomfortably stuffy. The reason for this is that your perspiration can not evaporate to cool you off.

The dewpoint here will slowly increase from now until summer breaks in late September. The people who live here know that anything needing to be done outside between May and September is best done before 11 am, when the thermometer typically breaks 90 degF. It isn’t the temperature, it’s the dew point.

Here in Florida, there are 4 seasons:

Hot: March through May
F’ing Hot (Also known as Hurricane season): June through mid September
Still Hot: Mid September through Mid November
Snow Bird: Mid November through February

Beginning in mid June, you get your outside work done in the morning then stay in the air conditioning until at least 4:30 in the afternoon when the afternoon thunderstorms come calling. That is what we do from mid June until about the middle of September.

 

By Divemedic, ago

Dumb Statements Overheard in the ED This Week

The guy that came in with a gunshot wound to his left hand: “I pulled out the clip and checked the chamber it looked empty. When I pulled the trigger, it went off. I guess there was a second round in the chamber.”

Triage nurse: “That’s not how that works.”

A woman has her two kids with her. One called the other “gay.” The mother, indignant, told the daughters: “Don’t talk like that, it’s offensive. Your uncle is gay, and when you say things like that, you sound like Donald Trump.”

Nurse to the cop who was involved in a pretty bad crash in his patrol car: “Were you wearing a seatbelt?”

Cop: “No. I don’t care that you know, they are going to find the ‘seatbelt dinger preventer’ that is in the seatbelt latch, anyway”

I guess some people ARE above the law. I wonder how many seatbelt tickets he has written.

By Divemedic, ago

Violence

You can bitch, complain, and argue all you want, but once they begin using force, and that is exactly what is happening here, all time for talk is over.

Pepper spray is appropriate here. A lot of it. Then a pepper grenade. If they want to escalate from there, let’s get it on. This is terrorism as defined by 18 USC 2331(5):

(5)the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A)involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii)to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C)occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States;

By Divemedic, ago

Hypocrite on the Right

Yesterday, I posted about this woman, who said that her “fellow conservatives” need Jesus because we argue with and threaten the left?

We don’t have to have a kumbaya moment, but some of yall show your true colors quicker than you think when it comes to wishing harm to the opposition… Yall need Jesus.

I will point out that I was pointing out the errors in her statement. She responded with:

Omg once again, we are discussing liberal posters on X. You got a thick skull with jack shit inside it bruh. And you are full of fear.

Who needs Jesus? Stupid cunt.

Here is the quote:

By Divemedic, ago

Excusing the Enemy

This woman is insisting that we, as the targets of the left who wants us either dead or in camps, must wait until they take overt actions to carry out their threats before we openly call for their elimination.

As I pointed out to her in the thread- when the other side is telling you that:

Still, she insists that we wait for “everyday people” to take action, and refers to the people out there openly calling for violence against us as “loudmouths” who don’t really mean it. Then she blocked me because I was “annoying”, despite the fact that I produced examples of those who are openly calling for genocide against Trump supporters.

Her position that you must wait for some sort of attempt to carry out a vocalized threat before defending yourself doesn’t work on an individual level and certainly doesn’t work at a national level. I don’t have to, and should not, wait for a person who tells me that they are going to shoot me while holding a gun to fire the first shot. I also shouldn’t wait for the people loudly screaming that they want me dead or in a camp to actually begin loading the boxcars before I call for active resistance.

By Divemedic, ago

Domestic Terrorism

How to get the idiot to release the rebar:

  • Heat the rebar with an acetylene torch
  • energize the rebar using an electric fence controller
  • or repeatedly punch him in the face, with a shovel.

Watch the video here and tell me what solutions you would like to see.

People are catching on that the system is screwed up. It’s waking people up to how bad it really is.

By Divemedic, ago

Bad Day at Work

Room 37 is the unluckiest room in the emergency department at my hospital. It seems like every time I am assigned to the rooms 36, 37, and 38, the day turns into a disaster. The most memorable events from the past six months:

  • There was the psychotic patient who attempted to attack me before having to be tackled and held down by no fewer than 4 security guards so we could sedate him.
  • Or the woman who had a miscarriage and was given an abortion pill so she could expel the products of conception and almost bled to death. Over the hour it took for the surgical team to be prepped for her emergency D&C, I had to give her 4 units of packed RBCs, 2 units of frozen plasma, four bags of saline, and a unit of platelets. In other words, we more than replaced her entire blood volume.
  • There was the patient who had a respiratory infection that was aggravated by the fibroids that were caused by his previous COVID infection. I gave him his antibiotic (Cefepime) and within a minute he was deep into an anaphylactic reaction. I had to run to the medication room and grab the Epi kit.

Still, none of that compares to the last time I was covering room 37. Things had been going smoothly to that point. I was six hours into my shift, and things were great. I sent my patient from room 37 upstairs, and received my next. She had come into the ED complaining of abdominal pain. She was writhing around, moaning in pain, and covered in what looked like a raging case of ringworm. I needed to get an IV so I could draw her blood, give her some pain medication, and give IV access for the CT team, who were going to need that access so they could inject her with the contrast dye. She was thrashing about as I went to start the IV, and moved just as the needle broke the skin. That needle went into her arm, came out, and immediately went through my glove and into my left index finger.

Oh shit.

I pulled my glove off, and my punctured finger was coated in a mixture of her blood and my own. After more than 35 years working in the medical field, I finally received the most common nursing injury- a contaminated needle stick.

I reported it to the charge nurse, and his only comment was that I needed to stop goofing off and move patients through my section because we had almost ten people in the waiting room. So I went and found the charge nurse for the next section over, who gave me the needlestick hotline phone number.

Within two hours, they had tested patient’s blood and determined that she didn’t have Hepatitis or HIV, then tested my own to ensure the same. They also tested my blood to make sure that I still had a positive titer for Hepatitis B.

The rest of my shift went to shit. By the time I left at the end of my shift, I was ready for the weekend to start, because I had had enough. When the weekend came, I got to spend it at employee health. So much for one of my days off.

By Divemedic, ago

Lying Liar that Lies

So there are three lies here:

I used to teach the Second Amendment in law school

No, he didn’t. He never taught a single class. (source: New York Post)

From the very beginning, there were limitations

“Everything in that statement is wrong,” said David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute. After 1791, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.” Not until the early 1800s were there any efforts to pass restrictions on carrying concealed weapons, he said. (source: The Washington Post)

You couldn’t own a cannon.

That is false. (source: Politifact) private individuals could, and did: 

  1. form their own military units, usually termed “Legions,” that included artillery units.
  2. organize and charter private militia units as nonprofit corporations. On 28 October 1801, for example, Thaddeus Rice, John Hastings, James Godfrey, Reuben Rice and others incorporated a private artillery company in St. Albans, Vermont (see pages 120-21 of that state’s annual statutes to verify). On 3 November of the following year, 40 individuals did likewise in Shrewsbury, Rutland County (pps. 44-46). Other examples abound.
  3. own cannon, individually and as part of mercantile partnerships, for use on their ships, for protection against pirates and for use as privateers, private ships licensed by the U.S. federal government to seize enemy ships for lawful sale, a power granted Congress in the Constitution (Article I, § 8, clause 11). During the War of 1812, more than 200 American privateers seized and sold over 1,000 British ships. See the novels George Washington’s Secret Navy, and Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution
  4. develop, manufacture, stockpile, and sell cannon to meet the demand of private individuals as well as the government. Consider an article in the Congressional Weekly Register on 7 January 1812 (pps. 342-43) complaining “that the least rumour of war” caused the market price of military goods like cannon to increase 50 to 100 percent.

Senile old piece of shit. I just have no, and I mean none, respect for this doddering old fool.

By Divemedic, ago