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- Jan 14, 2018
Holy crap at the world markets being halted within minutes of opening this morning.
The virus scare was already making the market shaky, but the Russian/Saudi shitshow is going for the jugular.
Yup, for some reason the Russians and Saudis are having an old-fashioned gas war. Used to see such things when I was a kid. Oil's up to $34.13/barrel right now.
Forget me if I sound way saltier than usual but there's been a... fuck it one of my loved ones died in front of me. 100% unrelated to corona. I doubt I should post today but I am thinking of posting a rant with my thoughts on emergency services. But... Honestly I shouldn't. Right now I don't think I remember how to function I should not be posting. But I do think I should express my thoughts on the matter... part of me thinks this is a cry for help. I really just can't remember how to live right now.
Yes it's true. Basically with mechanical respiration you're pumping oxigen into the lungs but as I said on prior comments if the lungs are necrotic, or filled with fluid, or just way too inflamed, then it doesn't matter how much you pump into them at that point because nothing will get to the bloodstream. Further, there are also complications in the bloodstream or other parts of the body and here I get to why I even bothered comenting today, because it's funny in a very dark way how life comes at you.
The loved one I just talked about died due to a brain rupture, their skull flooded with blood, which made it so oxygen couldn't get there. He did get mechanical respiration when the services got to him but, well, nothing in this world could've made that oxygen enter the brain. They died gasping for air with nothing anyone could do about it. I have no issues with spanish healthcare due to it btw, it was too fast and too hard. That's the thing, as I repeated many times when it comes to biology some battles are just lost as soon as they're started. Life just comes at you and the train's got no breaks. So, he's right, some cases can't be fixed by mechanical lungs. I bore witness to that today.
Saying dictatorships get shit done is absolutely exceptional. All mussolinni did is take a country with a broken industrial base and break it further, then declare war on half the fucking planet. Hitler got a country wigh a good industrial base and all he did was drain its resources until their airforce sepukkued itself due to lack of fuel, and mao drove china to famine for literally no good reason other than his own officer's stupidity. Dictatorships just don't work.
Here's hoping your system can take it. But to be honest, american healthcare is the one that worries me in the west, outside of maybe the balkans for other reasons.
To be fair our ancestors were making poems and songs about wanting to bang the personification of death since ancient times, hell greek gods are basically waifus and husbandos, and the egyptians were furries to boot. So really, nothing's changed, people are just weird.
Let me add my condolences to you and your family, as well. Take care of yourself.