Sorry about your troubles. I agree with your hypothesis that COVID does more damage when given the right scaffold and that underlying conditions lay the groundwork for lasting damage. Have you considered your problems may be clot related?[0]
Not just considered, but seems likely. I have had a lot of trouble finding the key pair values with doctors to pursue any treatment down those lines. I also have ADHD and some other issues that make the diligent pursuit of treatment that is met without collaboration to be extremely difficult. I've found that the best way to NOT get treatment is to go into a doctors office with an idea of what might be wrong with me. I get the best results when I can compose myself enough to go in and complain about symptoms until they come up with something they think will help... which most of the time is 800mg ibuprophen or some weird pill that will reduce ear wax... but after a few visits they might say "GEE IT MIGHT BE BLOOD CLOTS".
Ugh. I'm just gonna do some deep breathing in cold baths, maybe DIY a hyperbaric chamber, get better at pullups, buy a rowing machine, and cut out sugar. Likely by the time that's effective the damage done will be compounded, but at least I won't be left in a holding pattern of how fucked US medicine is.
I'm just some random person on HN so please take this with giant heap of salt, but you've described problems in 2 of the 3 major organs in your arterial system (the third is your kidneys). FWIW, I'd encourage a Hematologist to look there.
Thank you. You might be able to tell the frustration and anxiety this stuff brings me going through it. I appreciate you talking with me about it and you're right. I should ask for a hematologist. Weird that no GP has suggested that, but seriously, you suggestion here might be the key to me living and extra 30 years. Might not, but it's one of the best key/pair value suggestions for treatment path I've heard in a discussion in some time.
DIY hyperbaric chambers can be extremely dangerous in terms of explosive decompression and fires. If you're considering building one then for the sake of yourself and your neighbors please don't try hacking one together out of plans your find online.
Unlike the Olympics where the sports are often obscure, boring or both, the world cup is comprised solely of an exciting game, much which of the world is familiar with from childhood experience. It's a sport that doesn't favor physical giants over skill and depends upon team cohesion over individual talent. As a result, we often see smaller countries with something to prove knock out bigger, established countries. Unless it's your team that loses, EVERYBODY loves an underdog.
Does this mass layoff comply with the WARN Act and California's mini-WARN?[0] What about all of California's protected classes?[1] The pregnant ladies let go before their FMLA seem especially aggrieved.
Maybe some lawyers here can chime in: How soon will we see some class action lawsuits?
Do they? Or does Elon have to explain in front of a judge that employees about to go on protected leave/ older workers/ less fanboy were not unfairly targeted?
My money is on settlement to prevent any judge from seeing how the firing decisions were made.
In the US, the presumption is innocence until proven guilty. The pregnant women would have to prove they were targeted with evidence, not the other way around.
Any method of firing is allowed as long as it wasn't based on protected class, even if they pulled names randomly from a hat. The person suing would need hard evidence. Firing based on lack of fanboy attitude is also perfectly legal. Age and disability are not.
Anything is possible, but my money is on nothing happening.
I'm pretty sure that one of the levels of Dante's hell is working a ship's galley in rough seas. Trying to keep your nausea under control despite the lack of fresh air and not get burned by all of the hot, sloshing liquids is only for those who have very sturdy sea legs and a high tolerance for burns.
Because Moscow doesn't have to beat the US on the battlefield of Ukraine if they can ignite a US civil war and force a military withdrawal assymetrically.
If race is barred then the next method could be increased emphasis on perfect price discrimination to distinguish applicants socioeconomically. Outrageous tuition prices coupled with generous "scholarships" can also create a diverse student body.
Presumably if you cannot use race to decide who gets a place, you cannot use race to decide who get's a scholarship. At least as Harvard University, different rules might apply for the NAACP etc.
Who said anything about race? If you can afford Choate, you can afford $250k/year at Harvard. But the kid from Biloxi, MS gets a "scholarship" so she only pays $25k/yr.
Of course, for 250k*4y I could probably just buy a house in Biloxi... And many of the people the current system removes from the pool come from areas that would be just as economically under-performing as other groups.
Less clear than you might think. Choate isn't as rich as Harvard, but it's still on a tier with, say, Wesleyan (for context, not as a fair comparison), with the finaid apparatus to match. They are absolutely capable of letting you "afford" to attend if they want you there, not quite orthogonal to whether you can afford $250k/year (more than Harvard sticker price anyway) but maybe at a 60-degree angle or so.
[0]http://sanfordhealth.staywellhealthlibrary.com/Search/134,51...