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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'I am devastated, I can't imagine anything like this happening': Travis Scott says he's working to help families of people who died at Astroworld after cops revealed crazed man injected a victim with opioids before stampede killed 8
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Travis Scott spoke out Saturday night after eight people were killed and hundreds injured during his concert

  • Scott told his Instagram followers he was 'devastated' and is 'working right now to ID the families so we can help assist them through'

  • Shared he had no idea what was going on and 'could just never [have] imagined the severity of the situation'

  • Video shared on social media shows concertgoers repeatedly screaming 'stop the show' as people were being knocked down and crushed by other attendees

  • Police are reportedly working to identify the victims are are awaiting the medical examiner's investigation to determine the cause of their deaths
Related:
Travis Scott continued to perform his Astroworld set for about 30 minutes as people were crushed to death and crowds chanted 'stop the show': Rapper was left 'in tears and beside himself' after finding out what happened

Cops reveal crazed man injected victim with opioids before stampede that killed eight at Travis Scott concert, slam organizers of Astroworld Festival for taking 40 minutes to stop it and say youngest victim was 14-years-old
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2021 00:31 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why I don't attend rap concerts.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  also the obscenities, n-word use, misogyny, etc.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/07/2021 5:19 Comments || Top||

#3  and the "music"
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 5:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Avoid large crowded venues.
Posted by: Hupailing Clavilet1952 || 11/07/2021 6:36 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ as the old sarge said - don't bunch up, it attracts fire.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/07/2021 7:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Welcome to the jungle and its "music"
Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2021 7:38 Comments || Top||

#7  No one gave a fuck about the eight who died, but he's devastated
Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2021 8:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, it's not like the dead ones will buy any more of his records or concert tickets.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Third world country now
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#10  It's okay, they can still vote demonrat.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/07/2021 9:25 Comments || Top||

#11  So, Merrick, were we also a third world country in 1979 when a majority white audience stampeded just to get into a Who concert?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#12  I was at the Who show in Pittsburgh the night before "The Stampede in Cincinnati." Given the way the crowd was that night, I was not surprised by the following night's news.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 10:52 Comments || Top||

#13  #11 Yes, under the first Biden Admin aka the Carter Admin, we were also descending into chaos. 1979 was the nadir.

Hyperinflation, military - diplomatic debacles, soaring crime, the precursors to Woke madness...

America was falling apart in 1979, as it is now under the Second Carter Administration -- though in Jimmy's defense, he supported the research that yielded fracking and he also deregulated the airline industry. He wasn't nearly so inept, Woke or outright retarded as the current regime of lunatics
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 11:43 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Sweet Sweet Connie is Dead!
Rockers Grieve. Video at link.
Video posted 23.August 2021. She died, apparently after a brief, unnamed illness.
[YouTube] Sweet Sweet Connie Hamzy, famous rock star groupie from Little Rock, Arkansas, who claims to have slept with more than 600 rock stars, roadies and security personnel has passed away at 66! Known for providing oral pleasure to any rock band that came through town, Connie has a resume filled with names such as Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss of KISS, John Bonham of LED ZEPPELIN, Keith Moon of THE WHO, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of RUSH, Rick Nielsen of CHEAP TRICK, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen of VAN HALEN, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, Don Brewer of GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, the complete ZZ TOP band and a whole host of others. Rest in Peace, Sweet, Sweet Connie.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 09:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RIP August 21st
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  We all have our hobbies, I guess. The next video cued up for me was her interview with comedienne Joan Rivers, in which Ms Hamzy looked and sounded like a wholesome Southern girl — except for the subject matter.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#3 
It is amazing what is revered as a Status Symbol and considered a talent today.

Wondering if her sudden unnamed Illness is / was shared with others, that she has met and performed for. ☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  With Caligula err Biden's regime the vice president is skilled in the same way as Sweet Sweet Connie...
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 11:18 Comments || Top||

#5  One could map the Caligula's horse to all the trans and woke that Biden has raised up to rule.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 11:20 Comments || Top||

#6  If Joe only sniffed horses, probably nobody would care. Except the horses...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 11:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Emblem of an era.

Followed in our own time by Kamal-Skank, Sonny Lierced-Nipple Cuomo, Gillum-Wiener-Toobin, and presided over by Magoo-Snifferoo and his Crackpipe Pr0n-Streaming son
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 11:38 Comments || Top||

#9  She died, apparently after a brief, unnamed illness
No truth to the rumor she choked to death?
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 13:26 Comments || Top||

#10  ^^^
Perhaps a Polish Sausage Sandwich this time...
Not Ham Sandwich 🥪 like a formerly well known singer Mamma Cass
Posted by: Heriberto Sproing5813 || 11/07/2021 13:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Her last thought 💭 - Practice does not make perfect, I took in 18 inches, 1 inch too much...



Posted by: Heriberto Sproing5813 || 11/07/2021 13:42 Comments || Top||

#12  I doubt Connie Lingus did either Geddy Lee or Alex Lifeson, who were both married by 1976 and didn't ever seem overly interested in groupies like their tour mates in KISS were just a few years later. Neil Peart used to read books before and after shows, so he set the tone for Rush. I bet Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley thanked them later for not providing them 'competition' for groupies.
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2021 16:36 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Husband of U.S. transportation secretary says infant son out of hospital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, said on Friday that the couple’s infant son Gus had been released from the hospital and had been on a ventilator for a week.

The couple, who adopted Penelope Rose and Joseph August in August, had posted a picture of themselves with a baby in a hospital on Halloween.

"After 3 weeks in and out of hospitals, 125 miles in an ambulance, and a terrifying week on a ventilator, Gus is home, smiling, and doing great!" Chasten Buttigieg said on Twitter on Friday.

Buttigieg told ABC last month "It’s such an incredible blessing. We didn’t know that it was going to be twins until about 24 hours ahead of time but they have brought just such joy to our lives."

Chasten did not say what the baby was being treated for. A Transportation Department spokeswoman declined to comment.

When he was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate as Biden’s transportation secretary, supporters credited Pete Buttigieg with shattering a centuries-old political barrier for LGBTQ Americans.
And a lovely Rooters tongue bath at the end.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 07:22 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Malnutrition due to failed breastfeeding ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Freak show.

James Carville put it well last week when talking about the Woke freaks and Bolsheviks: "These people are bad news... Americans DON'T LIKE THEM. They don't want to sit next to them on the bus or the subway ..."

This is the party of Hunter Biden and his sick pervert dad, of Andrew Gilliam, Anthony Weiner and Jeffrey Toobin, of the ugly corrupt insane little harpies in The Squat, and the predators Cuomo, Gates, Clinton and the whole Epstein crew.

This is the Perverts' Party.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 8:43 Comments || Top||

#3  I trust the mother's doing fine as well.
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2021 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  GOP has its vile creatures too. They are under more pressure to remain on the down-low, and when they crash and burn, it tends to be Larry Craig style. OTOH, the dems embrace their freaks.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Caligula is Biden's crew.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 11:16 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't believe a godddamned word of this.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2021 12:04 Comments || Top||

#7  "He's frantic! He cooks and he cleans,
Makes beds, and serves tea and Peek Freans.
With Daddy he'll play
When our Daddy's away...
He's our tan, manly nanny for queens!"
Posted by: Pheth Sproing6492 || 11/07/2021 21:05 Comments || Top||

#8  Upon further reflection [snort], "from Queens" was fine.
Posted by: Pheth Sproing6492 || 11/07/2021 21:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Bravo, Zenobia F!
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2021 22:30 Comments || Top||


WA state: Navy engineering tech suspended for saying 'lethal force' justified against vaccine mandates
[MSN] Tyler Miller, 41, an employee of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state, wrote in an October 13 Facebook post that "lethal force is justified when defending one's life, liberty, or property."

"PSA - COVID mandates are threatening your life, liberty and property," Miller added.

Miller wrote the post on a page called 'Liberty, At All Hazards.' Operated by Miller himself, the page has promoted a number of anti-vaccine and anti-mask rallies, and also has a number of videos of Miller promoting COVID conspiracy theories.

Miller is an engineering technician at Kitsap-Bangor's Trident Refit Facility and is responsible for maintaining the nuclear-powered submarines that are stationed within the base, according to the Kitsap Sun.

The facility is reportedly the current home base for eight Ohio-class missile submarines.

In light of the post, the U.S. Navy suspended Miller from his position for at least one month and also revoked his classified security clearances.

The Navy noted that these security clearances were required for Miller to perform his job.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can’t really blame the Navy here for revoking his security clearance. The guy gave them little choice.
Posted by: Croque Fliting8030 || 11/07/2021 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Covidianism is a truly toxic and mind-bending religious cult.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  He's been canned over a Facebook post. A personal post. I'm betting there's litigation coming.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/07/2021 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, school districts want to police lids' out of school social media activities and the left revels in destroying people over comments / posts made many years ago, so this guy may have an uphill climb to get any lawsuit lottery joy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 11:21 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
The late Sterling Hayden 1970 interview (video)
A distinguished American OSS WWII veteran who despised Hollywood and testified against communists at the Church Commission hearings.


One of his movies, 'FIVE STEPS TO DANGER (1956).' Trailer found here.

Perhaps Hayden knew something we have failed
to fully grasp.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 12:02 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gen. Jack Ripper
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 16:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Oh, that beard! I didn’t pick up in that i interview that he’d disapproved of the Communists — he said he’d even gone to prison for protesting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/07/2021 19:50 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Slower to arive than expected but aurora peaks above the ISS sounds impressive.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 00:46 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  anybody know of any planetarium that has an aurora program?
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/07/2021 13:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Aurora Nordstern
Aurora peaks... below ... Impressive


Posted by: Deadeye Wittlesbach6840 || 11/07/2021 20:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Aureoles Pique... interest
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 20:55 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^
Hey MF & LG, Who needs a planetarium,
when you've got Aurora stuff like this
running around the planet.
And who knows, you might get lucky 🍀
And "catch a falling star' like her,
as long as your wife don't catch you first.


Posted by: Deadeye Wittlesbach6840 || 11/07/2021 23:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Why da fook dose white-ass people be showin' lil' black child in dey vid?
Yo slim.
I'm TALKIN to y'all
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 23:38 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
US Embassy in Addis Ababa has called on all American citizens to leave Ethiopia “as soon as possible”
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Are we looking at the next step in the path to another "extended conflict"?

Where DC funnels $$$Billions into a remote "protective Mission" turned "Peace Keeping conflict" and somehow certain persons and family members in DC SWAMP area get a millions back in return?

Questions:

Shouldn't the US Biden Junta be asked to secure our on borders and protect our Own Citizens before spending and wasting $$$ billions in some remote land?

Are the Socialcrats running short on Ethiopian migrants?

I ask because, it seems every time DC gets into one of these "Protective Peace Keeping Missions" it turns to a "Limited No Win Peace Keeping Conflict". Then DC pulls out after wasted $$$ Billions, at the cost 100's or 1000's of US Military lives.

Followed by 1,000's of the collapsing governments US workers, supporters and families heading to the USA at US Taxpayer cost.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I wish both sides of the conflict continued success.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/07/2021 5:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Like anyone needs to be told to leave Ethiopia?
Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2021 8:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Why would they be there in the first place?
Posted by: Chris || 11/07/2021 10:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Why would they be there in the first place?

Some grifters specialize in going after aid money. They consider the corrupt locals to be marks.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/07/2021 10:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Somebody has to hoist the pride flag and host gay poetry slams.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2021 18:07 Comments || Top||


Ethiopia's women wept and screamed as men were forced on to buses taking them to fight on the frontlines against Tigray forces
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whiners.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/07/2021 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Sigh, I just bought my green coffee and only 4 lbs of Ethiopian. I should have stocked up. Forgot their little civil war.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 0:56 Comments || Top||

#3 
For Neo-Malthusian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (WHO chief) Tigray is his passion and side job. And he ain't no doc!

Posted by: Ichnusa || 11/07/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#4  If you want to stock up the first 4 in this list are very very good: Ethiopian Green Coffee
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 11:23 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ I hear it's Highly Slossy
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  What's the plan Chief?

We're going to drown them in our blood.

Uhhhhhh?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2021 13:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Back when the Vietnam draft was going full bore, there was a story about how a draft board had a poster on the wall with an order from Haile Sellassi when Italy invaded Ethiopia: "All men between 16 and 60 will report with their spears."

So, old news.....
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/07/2021 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  #6 - this is destined to be a meme
Posted by: Frank G || 11/07/2021 15:07 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
122 individuals reported poisoned at Armenian pizza joint
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] The number of poisoned people after visiting "Tashir Pizza" pizzeria in Yerevan increased to 122 people. Six of them are in serious condition, the Ministry of Health of Armenia reported.
"They had the Hawaiian Pizza - with pineapple"
As Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 4, 15 people were hospitalized in Yerevan with symptoms of intestinal infection. By the evening of November 5, the number of victims increased to 57. The Food Security Inspectorate of Armenia reported on an inspection of two "Tashir Pizza" pizzerias where the poisoned ate. By this morning, the number of hospitalized with symptoms of intestinal infection has increased to 98 .

The number of victims of poisoning in Yerevan increased to 122 people, of which 21 are minors. As of 1600 hrs local time (1500 hrs Moscow time), 88 people are continuing treatment in hospitals, including 19 minors. 34 patients were discharged, an employee of the Ministry of Health of Armenia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

64 patients continue treatment at the National Center for Infectious Diseases, ten at the Republican Medical Center "Armenia", 12 people at the Mikaelyan Institute of Surgery, and two at the Martuni Medical Center. Doctors assess the condition of six patients as grave, the rest as satisfactory, the ministry said.

Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "So, you come here often?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/07/2021 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  It was the pineapple toppings, honestly! Barbarous custom that
Posted by: magpie || 11/07/2021 13:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Azeri plot
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 13:09 Comments || Top||


Russian winter weather report
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In Novosibirsk tomorrow, November 7, light snow is expected at night, southwestern wind 3-8 m / s, in places gusts up to 13 m / s. This was reported by the West Siberian Hydrometeorological Center.

“Air temperature is −4 ... −6 ° C. The roads are covered with ice in places, ”the forecast says.

Note that today, November 6, in Novosibirsk there was light, in places moderate snow, sleet; ice on the roads; air temperature 0… - 2 ° C.

Barnaul is fighting snow

[REGNUM] It started snowing in Barnaul today, November 6. According to the press center of the city hall, road equipment (57 units took over the duty) left for the processing of roads with anti-icing materials.

The roadway is currently strewn with twenty communal road vehicles and gritters. 81 road workers are involved in manual labor: they are sprinkling sidewalks, pedestrian crossings, stopping areas with sand. Today at night the road workers will begin to take out snow from the roads of Barnaul to the snow dumps.

As reported by IA REGNUM , residents of the Altai Territory, where it is now cold in winter, were encouraged by the coming warming: on the night of November 6, the air temperature can drop to - 18 ° C, but during the day it will be from zero to + 5 ° C.

Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Let us just say you can't write your name in the snow/ice at these temps.☺
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 5:13 Comments || Top||

#2  cold in Russia, who would've thunk it.
Posted by: Chris || 11/07/2021 10:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I find the most interesting location in Russia for following the weather is Oymyakon. It gets really, really cold and has already hit -30F earlier this month.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/russia/oymyakon/historic
Posted by: Lord Garth || 11/07/2021 16:27 Comments || Top||


60 prisoners reportedly tortured in Rostov prison hospital
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM] In Rostov-on-Don, a criminal case was opened on the fact of torture in the interregional tuberculosis hospital No. 19. This was reported by the Public Supervisory Commission of the Rostov Region.

"It became known that the Investigative Committee of the Oktyabrsky District recently opened another criminal case and is actively investigating it. In this case, there are more than 60 persons who were subjected to violence in the ILO-19. This became possible with the negligent attitude of the past leadership of the GUFSIN of Russia in the Rostov region. At the moment, the leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Rostov region has dismissed all the persons involved, an investigation is underway," the POC regional office said in Instagram.

During the checks carried out by representatives of the commission, it turned out that the prisoners were tied to beds. Some were held in this position for three to 72 days.

IA REGNUM does not have official comments from the GUFSIN of Russia in the Rostov region and the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Rostov region.

IA REGNUM recalls that on October 5, the network posted footage of illegal actions against an unidentified man, which, according to the author of the recording, took place in the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region. Later, new videos of torture, humiliation and violence in this hospital appeared. After the release of the videos, a criminal case was opened.

After a public outcry, the Kremlin said that the publication of video recordings of torture in places of deprivation of liberty was the reason for rather active verification actions by the relevant departments.

Posted by: badanov || 11/07/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Without Badanov Russian news would be like a black hole...
Posted by: borgboy || 11/07/2021 13:51 Comments || Top||


Great White North
B.C. Doctor Clinically Diagnoses Patient As Suffering From 'Climate Change'
Any doctors making such a ridiculous diagnosis ought to have his or her licensed suspended for a few months.
[Times Colonist, via Insty] - The head of a Nelson, B.C., emergency department says it's time doctors start looking at the underlying cause of medical conditions triggered by smoke and heat.

When a patient in her 70s came into the emergency department at Kootenay Lake Hospital in Nelson, B.C., Dr. Kyle Merritt had no idea hundreds of people were dying of heat across the province.

It was late June, and British Columbia was consumed under a heat wave that would soon go down as both the hottest and deadliest in Canadian history.

The head of the hospital’s emergency department, Merritt could see the aggravated toll the extreme heat took on patients battling multiple health problems at once, often with little money.

"She has diabetes. She has some heart failure. ... She lives in a trailer, no air conditioning," says Merritt of the senior patient.

"All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she's really struggling to stay hydrated."

As the mercury climbed, more patients arrived and pressure on the hospital mounted. Merritt and his colleagues tried to make sense of a surge in heat illness most had only seen in medical school.

"We were having to figure out how do we cool someone in the emergency department," says the doctor. "People are running out to the Dollar Store to buy spray bottles."

Merritt remembers hitting a tipping point, the extreme heat an opening salvo in another summer of crisis. He started contacting other doctors and nurses, in Prince George, Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria.

The response was immediate. Roughly 40 doctors and nurses at the small hospital — all busy trying to manage a pandemic and their regular professional lives — came together under the banner Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health.

Posted by: Raj || 11/07/2021 12:07 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just another example of politicized medical personnel,
let the 'buyer of their brand of medicine beware' - Like Covidian Medical personnel - buy one experimental shot (add another, because 1 is not enough) & another (ditto 2 not enough) & another (ditto 3 not enough)) add $90 a day pills, which you must take for the rest of your life to stay alive.... perpetual politicized medicine.
Posted by: Heriberto Sproing5813 || 11/07/2021 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  This will only worsen patient compliance issues. Bastardized politics and now Physicians.
Posted by: Dale || 11/07/2021 13:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "We were having to figure out how do we cool someone in the emergency department," says the doctor.

You're fn kidding me with this right? The whole article.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/07/2021 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Regression to a primitive state. Witch doctors, faith healers, Climate Sachems
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/07/2021 14:36 Comments || Top||

#5 
Must be looking for as US CDC or NIH position.

Either way I wonder what Medical code that the Doc used for Med-File coding.

BTW: Playing Politics with Patient care is a clear violation of his Medical Oath and might cost him his license.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 11/07/2021 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Aren't Canadian ERs air conditioned? That should help the patients. Beyond that, make sure they get water and check they haven't lost too much salt.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/07/2021 18:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Did the patient have shifting plates? Did she suffer from subduction? What about her currents did they shift?
Will there be a shot for climate change?
Now, I'm getting silly! Must be the loss of the icecaps.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/07/2021 18:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds like a good candidate for a turn in the bronze bull. After the doc takes his time in the oven, he can explain how climate change hurt him.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 11/07/2021 19:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I am sorry. Anywhere in North America you should have air-conditioning. If you don't you are kind of "slow".

Nuff said.
Posted by: 3dc || 11/07/2021 19:51 Comments || Top||

#10  They should revoke the license of any doctor who pulls this bullshit.
Posted by: Crusader || 11/07/2021 20:21 Comments || Top||



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