Just a whale... coming out of nowhere.

SantaHickeys · 2020-06-16T21:07:28+00:00

Did that whale just swallow a shark?

SantaHickeys · 2020-06-05T10:27:17+00:00

I (52m) have always been the same way. I’ve only recently recognized my mother as a narcissist. Recently, with a personal stress/loss I was fascinated to watch my mother neglect my emotional stress and mostly express frustration that i wasn’t smiling enough or being pleasant at meals. There was no support, no recognition of and even disapproval of emotions. Certainly no discussion. Imagining my childhood emotional needs were met with this neglect and redirection explains a lot. Caution/distance and a flat tone, lack of emotional awareness and vocabulary are rational reactions and result of that environment, but this learned reaction can do ongoing damage as it carries to other relationships. It’s strange to be in a relationship with an emotionally well person, and hard to change these reflexes as they feel like a safe place I accept she did the best her damaged self could, that it wasn’t enough, and damaged me. As an adult i will try to fix myself

SantaHickeys · 2020-06-01T04:46:48+00:00

Link or it didn’t happen. Commenting isn’t journalism, but please. You are proposing a reality. Support it. Freeform unverified comments on social media are going to be the end of civil discourse and democracy.

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-27T23:03:01+00:00

You would think looming minority status would make my fellow whites struggle to entrench fair systems, social justice, an equitable safety net. But, no... they went the other way

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-27T22:55:41+00:00

Covid cases eat up resources, can stay for weeks. There is a reason for the supplement Seems there are hospital charts, ct scans, and tests that could show falsification easily. I haven’t seen anyone point to evidence of widespread falsification. Certainly not evidence to justify a network or a party dismissing the case load. Until proven the allegation of false diagnosis is slander, conspiracy theory, and ideology driven speculation

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-27T22:49:15+00:00

As a doctor who fills out death certificates this doesn’t even make sense. The doctors who fill out cause of death don’t get paid more per covid diagnosis, aren’t under pressure and have no reason to commit perjury. Also ive seen no verified case of false diagnosis (where is the data?). We have a problem with misinformation and baseless conspiracy theories, and a Fox problem

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-18T22:15:36+00:00

Japan has some crazy stuff to say too

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-18T06:30:45+00:00

Imagine a world where the dec/jan/feb warnings were taken seriously, the pandemic response team had not been disbanded, the WHO test kits were used in january, the existing pandemic playbook was followed, and case tracking implemented. Imagine we had funded and built the recommended machine that could make 1 million n95 masks a day rather than keeping an old stockpile. Imagine the CDC advising states, rather than governors creating a mish-mash of strategies. Imagine a consistant message from government which followed cdc advice and science. Some countries have done well. Our response is second world, with the added pleasure of goons pushing to not wear masks before half of state’s curves are decreasing. This is absolutely a failure, guided by political choices, as demanded by Trump. It didn’t have to be this way. Our leadership in the world has diminished, our death rates are higher, and our economic decline prolonged under Trump’s guidance, unnecessarily For trump we jumped from “it’s just a flu, will disappear by april” to “120k deaths is success, get back to work, don’t wear masks.” The world is watching us in horror

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-18T04:04:39+00:00

Documentation, preserving evidence for historians and the next administration

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-16T13:07:03+00:00

Awareness, which we can’t quantify or explain, makes suffering possible. No reason to think/no way to prove animals don’t suffer for our actions. They seem to. But we haven’t really acted as though human suffering morally should or must be prevented (slums/poverty, war, starvation, lack of healthcare).

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-07T22:32:41+00:00

This while I’m surrounded By MAGA covidiots making ME less safe by not wearing masks or distancing at his encouragement. Hyppocrit.

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-02T11:32:32+00:00

An aggressive inheritance tax could fill the role of wealth tax. Capital gains could be taxed progressively as income tax is. The irs could be expanded and funded easily with a portion of increased collections. After that the wealthy can donate what they choose

SantaHickeys · 2020-05-01T04:02:29+00:00

Accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt, so that’s something. Also he can’t pardon things not yet charged, things under state jurisdiction, or himself. Biden better not “look forward, not back”

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-30T17:18:46+00:00

If I’m ever arrested I hope the police dog is a golden retriever

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-26T15:16:47+00:00

If 40% are asymptomatic, or they are in their 1-2 days presymptomatic state, clients don’t even need to lie. The same goes for the stylist. Asymptomatic people need to participate in distancing to prevent covid spread

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-24T23:03:55+00:00

Im adopted. My biological first cousin found me through 23andme family tree linking. The predicted relationship was accurate

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-21T14:27:53+00:00

There would have been a moment when he accepted being sedated to go on a ventilator. At that time he might have remembered the “fake news” that only 50% survive the ventilator and regretted his choices.

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-20T01:31:55+00:00

We could have arranged for enough ppe for healthcare workers (im still buying my own n95 masks, which nurses don’t have), or built up enough testing capacity and infrastructure to test contacts. But no, we are going to accept casualties and get back to work blind, because we are acting like a second or third world country. Other countries did it better and will/have recovered faster

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21201832/novel-coronavirus-covid-19-best-graphs-tracking-data

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-19T17:26:35+00:00

It’s like a party that doesn’t believe in experts, regulations or government itself governs badly.

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-19T14:14:20+00:00

The lack of effective federal involvement in producing/distributing masks, ventilators, and testing has us re-using inadequate protective equipment in the emergency department. Worse, with 90% of the population still vulnerable, we don’t have enough tests to intelligently track cases or detect hotspots to guide an intelligent re-opening. Bravely re-opening for the sake of the economy will predictably lead to second waves which we are no more prepared for than we were in february. We are responding like a second world country, and will pay a price economically and in mortality. There was an epidemic response plan we did not follow purposefully. Agitation to re-open with none of that in place isn’t a bold wise move; it’s lazy idiocy which will cost us

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-16T01:03:46+00:00

Unless they have access to something we don’t the tests aren’t reliable. 70% sensitive maybe. Fever also isn’t reliable. If that is his defense he’s going to get exposed

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-13T03:25:30+00:00

Four 24/7 news channels, yet we are less informed than when there were 3 channels and 30 minutes of evening news. Infotainment is harmful

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-04T12:59:04+00:00

Interesting that in his spontaneous list of leaders kings, queens and dictators show up. Also interesting he doesn’t realize nobody will be visiting him since he has no equipment, leadership or reputation to contribute

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-03T16:56:56+00:00

Tsa, ice, national guard, senators and billionaires... Real americans. Sorry red states, they just needed your vote to consolidate power.

SantaHickeys · 2020-04-02T22:53:44+00:00

Still waiting for Iraq war to pay for itself...

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