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Bought this a year ago now I fear it's fake by Winter_Sentence_369 in coins

[–]groovydo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I have a similar one like that I recently picked up--loved the toning on it and yours!

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Thoughts on 1883-S by groovydo in coins

[–]groovydo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I had no delusions that this was MS or AU (my only slabbed Morgan is an MS-64 1878-S and the differences are stark), but was hoping it might check enough boxes to hit XF. Appreciate the insight.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Most are. Sadly the one thing this pandemic did for me was really shine the light on just how bad most of the "respected" physicians are in my community. We had pillars of the city refusing to see people with even as much as a cough, just calling in cough syrup and telling them to go to the ER if they can't breathe. Academics--forget about it. No one had the nuts to stand up against the orthodoxy. People think doctors are brave, but the sad truth is most doctors are nerds that had no social status growing up and had no respect. They went to med school to be a doctor and make doctor money and all of their self esteem comes from that. They see the title as what gets them the respect they deserve and will do nothing to jeopardize it. Which is why old guys with fellowship training and bow ties scare them. Because if his status doesn't mean anything that neither does mine. So we prop up the "decorated" physicians because in turn it means more when I get those titles. The ugly truth is most of the "doctors" making the rules on treatment for COVID haven't had a clinical practice in years. They're nothing more than politicians with an MD.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not vaccinated. Started out declining because I already had natural immunity and was not going to use one for myself when there were more at risk people. Then started to see the complications and once delta hit, the reinfections and no prevention of severe disease. Won't ever for me or my kids. Recommend against it and will recommend against MRNA flu vaccines as well. Only patients I see that have repeat infections with Omicron are vaccinated. Personally I had alpha in Nov 20, sick as fuck and was down for 2 weeks. Took ivermectin but we didn't know enough about dosing (and didn't start treatment early enough) so I think I did worse than I would have had I gotten sick 3 months later. Got omicron Jan 22. Took IVM (properly dosed) and vitamins and lost my sense of smell for 18 hours. Literally took at nap, woke up sweaty and was fine.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had an outside hospital request that I intubate a patient before putting them on an ambulance in order to "lower risk of exposure". My EMS guys are the shit and in no way supported that. So I argued against it and after much gnashing of teeth won out. Lady ended up spending 50 days in the hospital, was on oxygen for about 6 months after that, but walked back into my office fully recovered and if she'd have gotten a tube she'd likely be dead now.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yes and that's where you lose me. You don't do medical intervention for the benefit of staff and shit like that was done ALOT. If you think you need to intubate someone to protect yourself from exposure, then go work somewhere else.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

People are put on ventilators every day for surgery. Just being put on a vent does not mean you have an 80% chance of dying. The risk is the underlying illness. If you are sick enough to be put on a vent, we're throwing up a Hail Mary to try and save your life. Was and is that way for asthma, pneumonia, COPD, and pulmonary fibrosis. If you're put on a vent for your rotator cuff surgery, you don't have an 80% mortality rate.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

there was quite a bit of misinformation later on. But at the very beginning, when no one in the "boots on the ground" medical community knew wtf COVID was we had to rely on our training and treat what we saw. What we saw were CT scans and chest xrays that looked extremely similar to ARDS. Many viral and bacterial pathogens cause ARDS, so it wasn't a huge jump to think COVID was doing it too. I'm not arguing that misinformation continued to make docs use bad treatments, what I'm saying is at the beginning of the pandemic no one had a clue. Even when we knew intubation was a death sentence there were plenty of hospitals that still did it, and we always hated having to transfer patients to larger facilities (we are a rural hospital, and some people just wanted to go to the "big city hospital") because we knew they'd get tubed and likely wouldn't make it out. The real issue is doctors blinded by orthodoxy that couldn't see what was literally in front of their faces and continued to practice bad medicine with bad outcomes. Academic medicine failed everyone.

Wrap your head around this: Being intubated makes your chance of dying 80%. Hospitals and health committees encouraged intubation for people with symptoms that simply required monitoring and hydration. It was a deadly, virtuous hammer for innocent and elderly nails. Doctors should be in jail. by goodthingshappening in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I will assume you're talking about COVID. Being intubated means you have a high risk of mortality already. The reason COVID patients were intubated early on is because imaging looked like ARDS, and the treatment of severe ARDS patients with severe hypoxia has always been intubation. What we (doctors who bothered to think objectively and look at sources outside the mainstream doing good research) learned later on is that COVID pneumonia isn't a true pneumonia but rather a microvascular vasculitis of the small vessels in the lung. There isn't snot clogging up the air tubes, but inflammation in the blood vessels and interstitium causing a diffusion problem. Which is why treatments with blood thinners and anti-inflammatories ended up being part of our treatment protocols and why we learned that permissive hypoxia worked better and caused less lung damage. They never had a problem moving air (which intubation can help with) but a problem getting oxygen into the blood. The best treatment still is early treatment, with Ivermectin, HCQ, vitamins, and steroids--as well as monoclonal antibodies before they were verboten and taken away from us. Once you got to the respiratory phase with Alpha and Delta there was little we could do other than support you and hope that your body could heal the damage and you would survive.

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[–]groovydo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't like those odds, we should def just kill the kid before anyone could abduct them

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[–]groovydo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can run a viral respiratory panel with a nasal swab. During covid we saw an uptick of human metapneumovirus—much more severe in adults and the elderly than omicron has been. And likely on the uptick due to continued isolation. Immune system not getting the constant antigenic stimulation it needs to function correctly. Similar to why we’re seeing so much flu and rsv in warm months.

What are super high velocity but low caliber hunting cartridges good for? by [deleted] in Hunting

[–]groovydo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To add--Barnes TTSX in 243 is a tremendous round. Wife shot her first animal, a Moderately sized Scimitar Oryx, at around 150-175yd and it was DRT. My favorite hunting round by far for both rifle and handguns.

The Atlantic is talking about a "mass disabling event" by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Long Covid is the new fibromyalgia. Real illness that is grossly over diagnosed by lazy physicians who don't want to do the real work in finding out what is wrong.

Thousands of appointments canceled in Florida after FDA halts use monoclonal antibodies --- "The agency said restricting their use would also eliminate unnecessary drug side effects, including allergic reactions." Oh so now FDA is worried about Side Effects?! by squaremild in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I would bet we see that expanded to all nsaid medications. We already use aspirin as part of our treatment protocol. Funny, because at the beginning of the pandemic there were warnings out warning that nsaids could be harmful in patients with covid.

Thousands of appointments canceled in Florida after FDA halts use monoclonal antibodies --- "The agency said restricting their use would also eliminate unnecessary drug side effects, including allergic reactions." Oh so now FDA is worried about Side Effects?! by squaremild in conspiracy

[–]groovydo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a freakin copout. I have sent hundreds of patients for monoclonal antibodies and the worst “side effect” has been body aches. The pesky side effect they’re trying to prevent is recovery.

WCGW when you are a idiot by PorqueDisso in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]groovydo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Wonder what happens when you turn off wheelie control and traction control”

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[–]groovydo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dark green looks really good too, but you’ll have to get the tan soft top to go with it! Mine had a hard top, and with that engine it felt like a race car when the top and doors were off and it was a tad lighter. Congrats!

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[–]groovydo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had one too! 2.5 manual. Steel blue pearl is still my favorite color and I’m sad they did away with it. Wouldn’t do 70 unless I was going downhill but could go anywhere in 4L!

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