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No one should own knowledge, and the pursuit of knowledge should be guarenteed.

👏👏 NO ONE SHOULD OWN KNOWLEDGE AND THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED 👏👏

i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job

listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion

Hi- your friendly neighborhood ER doc here. I also have a degree in virology & infectious disease and spent the last 7 years before the pandemic working overseas chasing outbreaks and working in disaster zones, conflict areas, refugee camps all over the world. I’ve worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US so I’ve had a pretty good opportunity to see healthcare in action in a lot of very diverse places. The US is completely OUT of control and it’s enraging and mind-boggling. I’m sitting here watching this pandemic unfold from within the US healthcare system right now in complete shock and anger. Our system was already a shit show (ask me how many people I’ve seen die, needlessly, at 20-40yo from not being able to afford insulin or having access to basic primary care that could save lives). I’ve been a patient (ironically uninsured and unable to access healthcare during much of my medical education) and a care provider—it’s frustrating on all sides.  We’ve completely given up. Our HCWs are burnt out, our hospitals are overflowing, we’ve cancelled “elective” procedures (ie. Life-saving surgeries for people with cancer, chronic diseases, painful health issues), and people are languishing in hallways of our ERs for days because our government has given up.  Whatever nonsense you’ve heard- Covid is not mild. Death is not the only bad outcome from Covid (although it IS bad and we’re having a 9/11 every day that no one is talking about). We’re seeing kids being disproportionately affected by Omicron. It’s excruciating to watch babies and kids too young to be vaxxed (and others whose parents “don’t believe”) struggling to breathe and in significant pain from what is very preventable.  Covid is not a “flu”- it is a mass disabling event. 10-15% of people AT LEAST will have permanent organ damage- to the heart, the lungs, the brain. Up to 40% of people will have lasting symptoms, fatigue, shortness of breath, memory issues, mental health issues. We have no idea what these things will look like for survivors of Covid 5, 10, 20 years down the line.   We’re not doing anything to prevent this. NOTHING. We cannot “personal responsibility” our way out of a pandemic anymore than we can stop climate change by merely using paper straws or recycling our coke cans. It’s absurd. We need vaccine & mask mandates, free N95 masks available to EVERYONE, unlimited FREE tests, and strong public policies to protect people. When we have surges, we need to lock things down- PAY PEOPLE TO STAY HOME. Why aren’t we paying people to stay home when things are bad?  I’m pregnant right now after losing a baby at 20wks in the pandemic of 2020 (which I had to go through all by myself while my husband was in the parking lot because our hospitals were full of Covid). I’m terrified- I’m doing all i can to protect myself but no one is protecting me. I’m vaxxed, I ALWAYS wear an N95, I advocate anywhere I can, but no one is listening.   Everyone deserves protection. Our elderly, our babies and children, people with chronic illness and disability. And also, just EVERYONE. No one needs to die needlessly or come crawling out of this pandemic permanently disabled because our government, which absolutely has the means to do better, has failed to protect us.  I’m so over it all. I’m angry, I’m tired, I’m scared. I feel powerless. I don’t want to work but I need health insurance (ironic, LOL!) for myself and my baby and my husband with special healthcare needs. I have $500K in student loans from fucking medical school. There’s no way out, no way to protect myself, my family, or my community.  And I pass by people hanging out at bars and restaurants and telling me things like “Covid is mild” or “it’s just something we have to live with.” IT IS NOT. We are FAILING. We prioritize capitalism and “personal freedom” over human lives. We will continue to have new strains popping up and decimating our own population and the world. Our healthcare system will fail further. A significant portion of our population will be permanently disabled and chronically ill. For what? A few billionaires and CEOs to make record profits?  Capitalism is evil. The US is a failed society. I’m so broken. I hope everyone is enjoying their “freedom.” 

Snape question of the day: what´s you weirdest/most random Snape headcanon.

he was (secretly) good friends with pomona sprout. where his friendship with minerva was often comprised of bantering that bordered on sassy insults, it was the opposite with pomona. they would spend many a quiet afternoon in the greenhouse engaged in idle chitchat, with her tending the plants and him reading, and pomona was the one person snape could rant to about students (or albus) and not be judged or looked down upon. pomona had long figured out that one effective way to calm severus down was to allow him to work with his hands, so she would ask him to help her with his plants, a much safer alternative to brewing potions in a temper, while he vented and raged. he also had a key to the greenhouses and was allowed to take potions ingredients from there whenever he liked. (slughorn wasn’t granted the same courtesy and for that severus was smug). she usually asked for nothing in return except for his company which he freely gave and that she enjoyed, even though he smoked in the greenhouse to the point that she had to confiscate his cigarettes and threatened to feed him to the growing Devil’s Snare in the corner. when severus became headmaster and things went to pot, they largely avoided each other, but that was more severus’ doing. he would meet her eye but hold a blank look, but when engaging with others would be aggressive or cutting. she never really know what to think, but was more confused than afraid. on more than one occasion, the greenhouses would carry the faint smell of cigarette smoke and once, all the mandrakes for the second years were repotted without her doing. she told no one. after snape died, half of what had been his potion stores were bequeathed to her as it was a handful of experimental plant tonics and growers, complete with research notes, that he’d apparently been working on for the past year while he had been headmaster. a note came with it. an attempt for an apology for my recent lack of company. i hope to remain your faithful friend, at least in memory, severus snape that night, pomona sprout smoked her first cigarette in the cool quiet darkness of the hogwarts greenhouse.

its funny, when I was younger I hated Snape, thought he was mean. Now, as I get older, I’m becoming like him, understanding him.