Notices by McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)

A family friend has been stopped by ICE twice in recent days. He’s Navajo.

ICE arrested a kid’s dad in front of their school in Loveland yesterday.

ICE took a mom, her 3 year old, and the kid’s grandmother into custody at a mall after they were overheard speaking Spanish. It was only some time later that they allowed the adults to show the documents they were carrying proving them to be US citizens.

Joe Public has no idea how quickly the economy is about to get fucked by this idiocy.

Ah, excellent. To be awarded federal grants in the future, a political appointee (or, in stage Russian accent, the political officer), will have to approve of them. How Soviet.

For anyone who might be involved in making decisions about US foreign aid:

Treating HIV in other countries keeps the HIV rate in the US low. If recent political appointee confirmation hearings are any indication, conservative men in the United States should be quite concerned about how many people have HIV because they are sleeping around. Seriously. I’m not kidding. If HIV gets ripping, it will inevitably spread in the US too. Every case I’ve recently diagnosed was in a heterosexual male.

All I’m saying is, if the whole neighborhood comes out and blocks the streets in their innocent curiosity every time ICE raids something, the mission planning gets more complex, the manpower needs much higher, and the risk to ICE goes up. Makes ‘em have to think about it more. So y’know, absolutely do not do such a thing.

I have reallllly been trying to not go down this road again, but I have to at this point.

If you say you want to “clean out” a geographic area that is currently inhabited by one ethnic group, in order to make room for another, that is called ethnic cleansing.

The President of the United States just endorsed, whole heartedly, ethnic cleansing.

Y’all dumb motherfuckers think he is above putting people in camps and building ovens? Do ya? Fuck off.

So I don’t give two fucks that a recycled report from CIA was once again released. I was there in 2020, in the hospital, treating COVID patients. I was there on social media talking with docs all over the world to figure it out. I was there getting DMs begging me to accept patients from 600 or 1000 miles away in states that lifted restrictions. I wore the filthy N-95s we baked in UV ovens. I watched people die, many of them needlessly after an effective vaccine was available.
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Some fuckwit thinks he’s going to rehab a bunch of politicians who made the wrong call, and killed their constituents. He thinks by telling people China made COVID in a lab, that will lift the blame from leaders here. It doesn’t. Our people died because our leaders let them. People were told it was a hoax, while ICUs overflowed into PACUs and ERs and ambulances. People were told the vaccine was poison, and died because of it. COVID deaths here were a leadership failure here. I remember.
5/5

China absolutely hid the outbreak. They hid data on the virus, the disease, and the spread. They reacted too slowly, and with too much focus on suppressing news of the virus. So yeah, fuck ‘em. None of that mattered, because when it hit the US, the sitting president said it was a hoax, undermined every effort to slow the spread of the disease, and led a misinformation campaign that resulted in death threats to people treating patients. This killed hundreds of thousands.
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Perhaps more important, though, is that the origin isn’t actually all that interesting in the grand scheme of COVID. What is interesting is how leaders responded. Oddly enough, the folks who tend to push the lab origin theory are the same people who called COVID a hoax, and actively undermined any effort at harm reduction in 2020. The focus on the origins now is an attempt to blame China for the failure of US leaders to do their jobs.
2/5

Oh for fuck’s sake, I thought I was done with this bullshit, but nooooo.

The CIA report on COVID origins is not new. The conclusions were previously released, and there isn’t anything new this week.

The CIA report is at odds with many other reports on the subject. We will probably never know for sure, but multiple lines of evidence reviewed by actual infectious disease experts, epidemiologists, and viral genetics experts, suggest an origin in “wet markets” over a roughly 2 month period.
1/5

FYI — when you put a blanket stop on supply purchases by science labs, years of progress can disappear overnight. There are studies, for instance those involving complex cell culture, that require months of painstaking work per experimental run, and if you run out of culture media in the middle, you lose that entire run. If your lab uses some special fly or worm or whatever and the food that thing eats runs out, your entire lab’s work dies. This is a fucking disaster for NIH.

@iris that’s what CNN was reporting. We’ll see in coming days if that is intentional or a problem with another incompetently written EO

Clinical trials that require specific supplies (e.g. blood test reagents or a special drug delivery system) have to stop if the research lab/clinical entity can’t buy those supplies. If this happens in the middle of a long study, it could make all of the data collected thus far worthless. You could lose an entire study, and create a situation where participants took on risk but the benefit (research results) never materializes. Stopping all NIH purchasing is a problem.

In the 15 years that I’ve been in medicine, this is the first time I’ve had a hospital put out a memo explaining how we deal with ICE. I previously worked at a very busy hospital in New Mexico.

John Bolton lost his secret service security detail today. I have no pity for him. He was a horrible human before 2016, he was a horrible human after 2016, and he created a constitutional crisis rather than be forthright during impeachment hearings in 2020. He could have stopped this, but he did not. Instead he wrote a book about it. Maybe his book money can fund his security detail.

Every month or two someone posts the whole “Mass shootings dropped X amount after the ‘94 ban, and increased Y amount after it was repealed”. Tempting correlation, but probably bullshit. Why? The ‘94 ban only affected sales of newly manufactured rifles with certain combinations of cosmetic features. A basic AR-15 with a full length barrel was legal to make, sell, and own throughout the ban. High-capacity magazines were widely available. AR-15 sales went up during the ban’s lifetime.
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Why do I care? First, it is intellectually disingenuous. Second, I actually support an updated (and effective) ban. The problem is that Congress loves to pretend to do things. If we’re gonna go through the hassle of an assault weapons ban, let’s actually do it this time. None of this “oh yeah, this sucker is pre-ban” bullshit at the gun show. 2/2.

FYI — as a former grad student during the time when Bush slaughtered science funding, lemme tell you that right now a whole lot of people working on PhD research (the kind that becomes the next cure for cancer or weight loss drug or antibiotic) are deciding whether or not to leave years of study behind to find another job. See, when federal science funding pauses, labs don’t get grants, and when labs don’t get grants, the people making ~$25k/yr working 14 hr days lose their jobs.

Licensed physician in the US? Did you know you can just open up a supply relationship with a medical supplier and buy medications? Y’know, things that might become hard to get in the near future.

@abbynormative we are not if they have typable flu. If we have a mystery virus, yes.