Chetzemoka

Yeah, I grew up in a small American town and my cousins were more like my siblings than my actual sister because they were the same age as me. We all fled that small town, so the next generation are all growing up not surrounded by extended family.

I think there are good and bad sides to it. It was nice to grow up surrounded by family with a strong sense of belonging. But my cousins’ children are growing up knowing people from far more diverse backgrounds than I ever had access to, which is good for them in a different way.

Overall, I think the effects are probably neutral

All I know is it better have Cara Gee or we riot.

This is actually how it’s handled in a lot of electronic medical records. There is a different indicator for sex/gender assigned at birth and current gender. I’ve not seen a specific indicator for intersex, but I’ve not encountered an intersex patient so far in my career.

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The only people who believe that wait times would be worse under a public health care system are people who don’t currently need to access health care under a private health care system. I’m an American who unfortunately needs to see specialists relatively frequently and the wait times are already atrocious.

That’s not what was decided in Dodge v. Ford. That case decided that corporations are allowed to act in the interest of majority shareholders even if it hurts the interests of minority shareholders. The Dodge brothers owned Ford shares and were trying to use their position to force Ford to stop competing with Dodge.

Further:

“In fact, courts have consistently refused to hold directors liable for failing to maximise shareholder value.”

"In 2014, the United States Supreme Court voiced its position in no uncertain terms. In Burwell v Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., the Supreme Court stated that “Modern corporate law does not require for profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else”.

https://legislate.ai/blog/does-the-law-require-public-companies-to-maximise-shareholder-value

The idea that corporations are hamstrung and simply must do evil things to maximize profit is actually just corporate propaganda.

Making price per unit mandatory on all retail items sold would go a long way toward making shrinkflation transparent for the customer

The biggest problem, I’ve found, is that elderly people who are hard of hearing to begin with struggle so much to understand you with a mask on. Through the whole pandemic, I was losing my voice from what I affectionately call “shouting at old people” all day. Especially with ventilation fans and monitor alarms and people talking in the hallway.

When my hospital finally lifted their mask mandate earlier this year, I initially thought I’d never go back. Then the creeping convenience, “well let me just pull the mask down because Meemaw doesn’t understand me, just this once.” It’s especially helpful with dementia patients who really need that nonverbal communication of facial expression.

I still mask vigilantly if I have any patient with respiratory symptoms, even if they’re negative for Covid/fly/RSV because I learned the hard way that viruses were don’t test for still exist. And of course, with the recent (completely manageable) influx of Covid patients, I’m religiously wearing my N95.

So that’s kind of the what we’re dealing with when considering to mask or not to mask.