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1 year agoAlmost 10% of the entire GDP of the Philippines is the money those overseas workers send home:
You’re not wrong about the fact that we underinvest in training our own population to do this work though.
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9·1 year agoYEP. Same. It’s always entertaining at work to watch a colleague who’s never heard my accent before hear me speak to a patient from Appalachia or the south
Yeah I’m absurdly good at not speaking in my native Appalachian accent, opting instead for a sort of “generic midwest.” Unless I’m tawking to ma day-ed-dy, n’ then all bets is awf."
My sister and I cover so well and so often that none of her four children who are literally being raised in Charleston, West Virginia has even a trace of our accent.
Yeah I remember being in the airport in January 2020 a week after starting a new treatment regimen for an autoimmune condition consisting of high dose intravenous steroids, and emailing my doctor that I was masking up, “But I’m sure that thing from China isn’t over here yet.”
Hindsight: yes it was. It was definitely everywhere already, just most of the people exposed weren’t getting deadly ill.
Similarly, I am all over those vaccines. I don’t have room for a bad bout of Covid in my life.
The grand irony is that my immune system is actually a giant bag of dicks most of the time. I spent the majority of 2020 receiving a course of high dose intravenous steroids to treat an autoimmune condition. That treatment regimen wrapped in October 2020.
Prior to that, we all - my doctors, my family, my coworkers - thought that if I got Covid, it was gonna be really really bad. Then I actually got it and it was a nothingburger lol
(I actually think I just got a really low infectious dose. I was with a patient who had tested negative the previous day, so I was only wearing a surgical mask. The patient tested positive on a repeat test the day after I was with them. Patient’s only symptom was “I really don’t feel well” and, you know, kidney failure. But the kidney problems had started for them before getting Covid.)
I tested positive in 2020 about two weeks before I got my first dose of vaccine. I was asymptomatic the entire time, only got tested because I had a medical procedure coming up. If it weren’t for that, I probably would think I’d never had it either
I am prescribed high dose creatine and CoQ10 to support ATP production in mitochondria by my physician who studies ME/CFS. It’s not perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than I was before. And it’s a very safe regimen to recommend.
I’m in my mid-40s and half of that list is in heavy rotation on my Spotify playlists lol. Metric was one of my top most listened to bands last year
I suspect it’s less an age thing than a preference of musical genre thing
X-Files beat you to it: Season 1, Episode 8
As a nurse, I have to verify your name and birthdate 27 times a day to make sure I don’t give you any medications that could kill you, but a cop is allowed to just assume. No triple checking verification of an address or person’s identity.
Cool. Totally makes sense 👍
I don’t know that it’s better; just pointing out that it is kind of how the country works right now. Around 10% of their entire population works overseas at any given time. And those higher paid workers like nurses can bring a lot of value to their families back home.
Is it right? Is it a good idea? I can’t speak to that. But the country has developed an entire administration to deal with it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Filipinos#:~:text=This%20number%20constitutes%20about%2011,be%20young%20and%20gender%2Dbalanced.
(I work with a lot of Filipino nurses who have explained some of this mentality to me.)