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Hospitals are running out of oxygen in a way: so much is going through the pipes that the upper floors have low pressure, and the oxygen pipes occasionally freeze from adiabatic expansion. In LA.
Is it from adiabatic expansion, or is it just the LOX vaporizer/heater being overwhelmed?
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> Fat shaming is like going up to each smoker you see on the street and screaming "eww that stinks" in their face. I'm not pro fat shaming, but spending time in East Asia and getting called fat publicly (even by close friends, but especially strangers) has led to lifestyle choices that have me down 50 lbs from when I first came. I saw that society here (in this unspecified country, not trying to make a blanket statem…
I accept your own experience but realise that this isn't necessarily the whole truth. For example, in Canada I found myself accidentally ordering a large out of habit. What arrived was invariably more than I could eat. Easily one and a half times your daily calorie requirements in one meal. In Spain I don't even remember a large being an option.
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Don't they need to be brought to the hospital for organ donation though ?
This would be the case only in those countries where everyone is a donor by default (unless explicitly you opt out). I don't think most countries have laws like that though.
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More people will die from covid. But the principals of free speech and assembly should not be sacrificed for something that will be and mostly gone in 6-9months. Yes people have died and that is horrible, but a dictatorship like china is not the answer. Tbh I'm more afraid of the governments authoritarianism than covid. *Disclaimer: yes I wear a mask indoors in public places and outdoors when not able to be 6 feet fr…
But the principals of free speech and assembly should not be sacrificed for something that will be and mostly gone in 6-9months. Why not? Ultimately, people are what matters. You know who can't exercise free speech and assembly? Dead people. Why is a 6 month hard lockdown worse than letting people keep walking around for 6 months? This sounds like a moral, absolutist statement you're making; like life is an art proje…
China/Vietnam have stopped covid, that's great but you can't exercise many of the freedoms that are allowed here. Imagine if someone tried to fly a baby Xi balloon in China, or even practice a religion without fearing persecution or death? Or even mention tiananmen square massacre or the death toll from the Great Leap Forward...
That is still going on and yet we are looking to China style lockdowns as a model of how to deal with Covid.