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breathe. you’ve made it so far this year. you’ve gotten through so many things that you thought you wouldn’t, and you’ll continue to get though this, whatever it is. i know you can. i believe in you, and i’m so, so proud of you. i know it probably seems impossible, but it’s going to be ok. it’s going to be ok.

breathe in, breath out. and just keep breathing. we’re gonna get there.

Disordered thoughts:

What happened to the dark horse?

What's with all the deer?

This is why you keep a spare key.

if Nedley ate calamity Jane, that is the wrong interpretation of PETA.

I would have gone with the saltwater cure first.

Does no one know CPR? Seriously, people, take a class.

Is it Amon-egyptian cultish God king? Or Jewish/Biblical Wicked King? both equally plausible.

If You don't want them to kneel, You have to help them STAND UP.

Covid Epidemic: 4.5 months in.

wearing a mask 8+ hours a day as an RN on a Acute Cardiac Unit.

Have to wear the same mask multiple days, or a nonmedical mask with unproven quality and safety.

"Good News" the Covid Isolation Unit is being decommissioned. Our census has dropped to zero.

"Good News" The number of new cases in my immediate area have not increased dramatically after protests and "reopening"

Signs of trouble remain.

A major metro area less than 2 hours away has increasing rates.

The local airport is back in operation.

Please stay safe.

stay home when you can.

wear a mask if you can't ensure safe distancing.

stay healthy.

You can't know if some one you are in contact with is immunosuppressed/Immunocompromised.

They may not realize it either.

Protect yourself. Protect those you care for. Protect the stranger that is important to someone else.

Imagine being Zari.1 in the Spirit Realm after meeting Zari.2, and finding peace learning/believing Behrad had survived his fate.

Then Behrad is killed/destroyed and arrives immediately after Z.2. departs.

Or will this be a further merging of Z.1 and Z.2, resulting in Zari² with all her social manipulation, business and gamer skills, hacker life and survival instincts all focused on one goal: Save her Brother.

Fate doesn't stand a chance.

#legends of tomorrow #zari tarazi #behrad tarazi #zari tomaz

cypher2

getting a little tired of going to work everyday watching ppl staying on vents for weeks and dying, and not being able to sleep at night bc im afraid i’ll get covid all bc ppl don’t fucking listen or care. at this point, unlike in the beginning, if you contract covid its more likely bc you’ve had contact with ppl or groups or in settings you shouldn’t have been in. yes, you should even be precautious around your own family in your own house. it becomes more preventable as time and information evolve. and yet here we are. this will go on into next year, easily. wear a mask, stay home, wash your gd hands. use common sense.

kezz2-blog

Have had 3 staff on my unit out with Covid, describing "fever so high I can't close my eyes, they're so hot"

we had a patient test positive after being on our unit for a week with pneumonia and fever. multiple negative tests before his viral count was high enough th register. we get 2 droplet masks "cough gaurds" per week. they are not to protect me, they are to protect my patient from me. gowns are nowhere to be found. N-95 masks are unavailable unless your on the isolation ward.

And the arses in my state think it's a good time to go to the bars.

Don't even want to hear it if you are complaining about wearing a mask for the short time you're out. I'm in one for 8-12 hour a day. I'll see how you like it when I have to restrain you just to keep the oxygen mask on your face so you don't become brain damaged from lack of oxygen.

Don't ever complain about the cost of treating addiction and MH issues if you are callus enough to think that your social entertainment is more important than the health of the community. .

"Six feet back" Wash your hands, wear a mask.

adulthoodisokay

i enjoyed this very much, thank you andrew huang.

i-hate-chick-fil-a

That man is staying home even though his head takes up his entire house. #StayHomeSaveLives

Please stay home. Please stay well. Please stay safe.

I can't. so you must.

cypher2

I was issued one mask to last for the week. I have to write my name and department on it. I can’t throw it away. I wear it everywhere now. Then I have to turn in my mask to get a new one after the week is over. We have to turn in the hospital wipes when we run out to check out a new bottle. We have to leave our ultrasound machines inside the isolation units at all times. The units are locked down, with only camera and outside phone access. We have to clean them like we’re coming out of a biohazard lab every time we exit a COVID room. Being in a negative pressure room with a mask and face shield on, one layer of contact gown, double gloves, and nothing else, breathing heavier, being hyper aware of everything you touch and every movement you make, having to communicate through a speaker or hand gestures through a glass window, is unnerving at best. I still feel like the PPE, in particular gowns and face covering, is not sufficient protection, and has not been since the beginning. But that’s all we have. Taking off the PPE is bad too. What if i accidentally brush my face with my glove or mask, what if I didn’t wash my hands enough, what if its in my hair or on my shoes, what if my next patient is asymptomatic and I don’t have any protection and they breathe on me. What if my n95 doesn’t work the way it should because it’s been reused so many times. We have to carry an essential employee letter on our way to and from work in case we get stopped or questioned. We’re converting 3 more units to isolation units. The ER is no mans land at this point. Makeshift tents and trailers and a holding area for symptomatic COVID only patients. The ICU is in literal war zone mode. The hospital is trying to find a way to disinfect our n95s, we still reuse them. All of our hospitals have relied on community donations of medical supplies to keep going at this point. The government has massively failed in this country and this will never leave history. Time is blurred together. I feel like this isn’t real. I wonder what the lasting effects of this will be, not just psychological but medically? What will we discover about this disease in the future that alters certain organs or systems? It’s already being discussed in cardiovascular care, that COVID could cause long term/later onset cardiomyopathy or valvular disease. Cardiogenic shock seems to be a main reason why we get called to do these echos. Multi organ failure. By the time I have to assess someone’s heart function, especially if they’re in the ICU, it usually means they are approaching the end. I’m tired. These are not just old people. These are people my age. This is anyone. But cardiovascular disease and CAD seem to be playing a significant role in a percentage of patients, especially those who die, and it will be studied for a long time. Are there different strains of COVID? Will one vaccine work or will the virus mutate and adapt too quickly if we let too many people back into society too quickly? Why were younger adults and children initially not affected but seem to be more and more involved? What will be the effects of long term exposure in those that don’t develop any symptoms or only mild symptoms? Will this virus re-manifest in the future as something else? Respiratory wise it’s similar to SARS but the genetic makeup is novel. The respiratory distress or failure it can cause seems to escalate quickly in some cases and linger in others, but it is not as deadly as SARS was so far. The less deadly, the more hosts it can infect, the more chances it has to reproduce itself, the more vast the spread. Is this the evolution of a previous coronavirus? The symptoms seem to be evolving as well. This virus will be studied for decades, and not because it’s necessarily unprecedented -a virus that starts as an epidemic has definitely happened before in this world - but because it’s literally new to the human race- the virus itself, the strain (or strains) of it, the way it manifested(which is still not 100% known), the fact that it became a global pandemic in such a short amount of time, and the fact that the global governmental response to it has resulted in thousands of deaths which could have even prevented. We are approaching 1 million cases worldwide, but will we look back before this is over and think god it was only a million 3 weeks ago? In the grand scheme of things, population wise, no it probably won’t get to any catastrophic point before we can find a way to effectively treat it before it mutates or create a vaccine(and enough supply of that vaccine to protect enough people at once) whichever comes first. But it’s also very saddening because many of the patients and those who have died and will die could have been preventable. And many have been and will be healthcare workers who have been thrown headfirst into this without proper protection or direction. There is no training for a pandemic. That has been made clear, in some places more than others. We train annually for so many other things - fires, disasters, bomb threats, active shooters, violent patients/family members,etc. but no one in the healthcare field signed up to go to work everyday thinking they could be the next one lying in the ICU on a vent bc they breathed in a molecule that got past their reusable mask that is supposed to be the main protection we have against an unknown fate at this point. not unless you went into infection prevention, public health, virology, or epidemiology. I do find it fascinating, I always have, but now its too real. and at the same time it does not feel real at all. I’ve been in scary situations before. I’ve watched people die, seen that blank glazed over stare in their eyes when they’re gone, I’ve seen hearts stop and start again, been in codes, overdoses, bleeding out, active shooter suicide. This is worse. I feel vulnerable now, like really vulnerable for the first time in my career. So much is unknown still.

07:00 sunrise almost make 08:00 meetings Monday morning tolerable

nevver

The Past is The Past, Matt Bors

wha-et-deactivated20210209

Let’s reblog this until everybody sees it

74flawsasofyesterday

I have nine years of climbing experience.

How does Nicole always know?

Which road Waverly is walking down along in the Unicorn episode.

To put on a bullet proof vest-under her uniform for concealment instead of over the top as it's typically worn?

That Waverly needs help when the Widows attack in the Sandman episode.

That Waverly is on her way to her house when she opens the door for Widow Mecedes. (Because a cop would not open their door blindly)

That BatDemon is messing with the rope when she's down the cliff, even though Wynnona and Doc have no clue yet.

That Wynnona isn't alone in the woods in Doll's Wake.

#wynonna earp #nicole haught #wearp s3 #wearp spoilers

oraclesofnorway

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

deadman-suggestions

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breathe in, breath out. and just keep breathing. we’re gonna get there.

nasa

6 Ways You Are Safer Thanks to NASA Technology

By now everyone knows that we are to thank for the memory foam in your mattress and the camera in your cell phone. (Right? Right.)

But our technology is often also involved behind the scenes—in ways that make the products we use daily safer and stronger, and in some cases, that can even save lives.

Here are some examples from this year’s edition of Spinoff, our yearly roundup of “space in your life”:

Impact Testing

What happens to your car bumper in an accident? When does it crumple and when does it crack? And are all bumpers coming off the assembly line created equal?

These types of questions are incredibly important when designing a safe car, and one technology that helps almost every U.S. automobile manufacturer find answers is something we helped develop when we had similar questions about the Space Shuttle.

Before flying again after the Columbia disaster in 2003, we had to be sure we understood what went wrong and how to prevent it from ever happening again. We worked with Trilion, Inc. to develop a system using high-speed cameras and software to analyze every impact—from the one that actually happened on the Shuttle to any others we could imagine—and design fixes.

Finding Survivors

We’re pretty good at finding things you can’t see with the naked eye—from distant exoplanets to water on Mars.

But there are also plenty of uses for that know-how on Earth.

One example that has already saved lives: locating heartbeats under debris.

Engineers at our Jet Propulsion Laboratory adapted technology first devised to look for gravity fluctuations to create FINDER, which stands for Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response and can detect survivors through dense rubble.

We have licensed the technology to two companies, including R4, and it has already been used in natural disaster responses, including after earthquakes in Nepal, Mexico City, Ecuador, and after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Fighting Forest Fires

As we have seen this year with devastating wildfires in California, forest fires can spread incredibly quickly.

Knowing when to order an evacuation, where to send firefighters, and how to make every other decision—all amid a raging inferno—depends on having the most up-to-date information as quickly as possible.

Using our expertise in remote sensing and communicating from space, we helped the U.S. Forest Service make its process faster and more reliable, so the data from airborne sensors gets to decision makers on the front line and at the command center in the blink of an eye.

Safer, Germ-Free Ambulances

When paramedics come racing into a home, the last thing anybody is worrying about is where the ambulance was earlier that morning. A device we helped create ensures you won’t have to.

AMBUstat creates a fog that sterilizes every surface in an ambulance in minutes, so any bacteria, viruses or other contaminants won’t linger on to infect the next patient.

This technology works its magic through the power of atomic oxygen—the unpaired oxygen atoms that are common in the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. We’ve had to learn about these atoms to devise ways to ensure they won’t destroy our spacecraft or harm astronauts, but here, we were able to use that knowledge to direct that destructive power at germs.

Air Filters

Did you know the air we breathe inside buildings is often up to 10 times more polluted than the air outdoors?

Put the air under a microscope and it’s not pretty, but a discovery we made in the 1990s can make a big impact.

We were working on a way to clear a harmful chemical that accumulates around plants growing on a spacecraft, and it turned out to also neutralize bacteria, viruses, and mold and eliminate volatile organic compounds.

Now air purifiers using this technology are deployed in hospital operating rooms, restaurant kitchens, and even major baseball stadiums to improve air quality and keep everyone healthier. Oh, and you can buy one for your house, too.

Driverless Cars

Car companies are moving full-speed ahead to build the driverless cars of the not-so-distant future. Software first created to help self-learning robots navigate on Mars may help keep passengers and pedestrians safer once those cars hit the road. The software creates an artificially intelligent “brain” for a car (or drone, for that matter) that can automatically identify and differentiate between cars, trucks, pedestrians, cyclists, and more, helping ensure the car doesn’t endanger any of them.

So, now that you know a few of the spinoff technologies that we helped develop, you can look for them throughout your day. Visit our page to learn about more spinoff technologies: https://spinoff.nasa.gov Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

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