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Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says in c/[email protected]

For the first time in my life, I have hit my deductible AND reached my out-of-pocket maximum. I now have three months of actual free healthcare, which is unheard of in the US. What should I get done? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sucks

Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says in c/[email protected]

For the first time in my life, I have hit my deductible AND reached my out-of-pocket maximum. I now have three months of actual free healthcare, which is unheard of in the US. What should I get done? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wegovy might be covered if you’re just fat. You might also find a doctor willing to prescribe it on the basis of pre-diabetes, although it’ll be a long argument with your insurer.

But if you respond well to the drug it’s worth it. Trust me

Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says in c/[email protected]

Covid origins: Genetic ghosts suggest pandemic started in market in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My point is they had a vested interest in the scapegoat excuse. The market is a mild embarassment compared to a possible containment breach.

Ok, and I asked you why that matters. And you haven’t said.

Also if for example a CDC or USAMRIID site was 'only' 8 km away from an outbreak of a disease they were studying, it would trigger a full on investigation and full genetic comparison.

Well, but no, it doesn’t. For instance the CDC’s Enteric Diseases lab is in Atlanta, Georgia; it hosts the largest tissue collection of foodborne disease isolates in the world. If you were ever hospitalized for listeriosis in the United States, a sample of your disease isolate is probably located in a freezer there.

And also people periodically get food poisoning from Atlanta restaurants. About 12 a year, let’s say.

So every one of those food poisoning cases happens within 8 km of the largest food poisoning lab in the United States. Do you know how often they investigate whether the isolate leaked from the CDC lab?

Literally never. Not ever. Because there’s no reason to, because people getting a disease near where the disease is studied is not statistically significant in any way.

Weaponizing ordinary devices violates international law, United Nations rights chief says in c/[email protected]

Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/12/world/middleeast/gaza-tunnel-israel-hamas.html

Second, if it were there, it likely wasn't intentional.

It connects to, and opens into, a hospital referred to by the New York Times in 2008 as “the de facto headquarters of Hamas.” So clearly pretty intentional.

Third, they could have bombed the tunnel without hitting the hospital

They did bomb the tunnel without hitting the hospital.

Fourth, and again you can fact check me in this, but it would be pretty strange for a large city to have no orphanages.

There are zero orphanages in any American city, for instance. Not strange at all. Orphanages are kind of an archaic and disused way to handle the case of orphaned children - modern societies use a foster system, instead. Gazans simply don’t care so they make no provision at all if the family doesn’t step up, so they don’t run orphanages either.

For the first time in my life, I have hit my deductible AND reached my out-of-pocket maximum. I now have three months of actual free healthcare, which is unheard of in the US. What should I get done? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Get on Ozempic or Mounjaro

Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Why is a military tunnel under a hospital? (I don’t believe that Gaza had a single orphanage.)

Postal worker parent of trans kid refused to deliver hateful flyers. She's being punished. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (12 children)

It’s good actually that the mail doesn’t censor based on viewpoint