• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    This is 100% something I would say as a joke in a message on a dating app lol…

    Would probably need to add a delayed “lol” or something just so its clear

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    6 months ago

    Allowing people to work for 11 hours is an infectious disease by itself.

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      6 months ago

      I believe I read that those kinds of hours (and worse) are pervasive throughout the medical industry because the father of modern medicine used cocaine to stay alert and was wired nearly 24/7, and successive generations kept his insane schedule because it resulted in better outcomes (for everyone except the one working).

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          6 months ago

          It’s probably more accurate to refer to him as the father of modern surgery, but I was thinking of William Harsted, who - alongside many other innovations (such as championing anesthetics and sterile surgical environments, both of which are alarmingly recent inventions) - created the residency system that’s still used for training hospital staff today.

          He demanded insane hours of his staff, which he was easily able to handle himself due to his cocaine habit, and which have been kept to this day (a law was passed attempting to cap it at 80 hours a week, but it’s widely ignored) because studies show that shortening medical shifts results in worse patient outcomes.

          It turns out minimizing shift changes is critical - the doctors/nurses who’ve been observing the patient are more aware of what’s going on and can spot any changes in behavior or subtle warning signs of danger, whereas their replacements can only go by what’s on a patient’s medical chart and what they’re told during handover.

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    6 months ago

    It’s concerning for so many people in a science community to be acting like bioweapon labs are a conspiracy theory. They are, in fact, very real and spread across the globe.

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      6 months ago

      It’s one of those things where everyone just assumes it’s illegal and that their government wouldn’t do illegal shit.

      Protip: governments only care if you follow their laws, cause what are you gonna do about it?

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        6 months ago

        There’s a reason the US builds their biolabs abroad. Supposedly, Obama established some in Ukraine, and that’s one of the main points that fueled initial escalations.

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    6 months ago

    There should be an infectious ease lab, develop some ease that spreads like plague

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    6 months ago

    You can’t fight them without making them. It’s a key step in the process be it for gain of function research, attenuated variants or antibody research. Unless you’re researching tuberculosis these things don’t live very long so you always need to create more.