Wednesday 8 April 2020

The Biggest Impact I Can Make to this Crisis is...?

So how are you doing? Are you still alive? Healthy? Well?
I am doing okay, just severe back pain plaguing my existence but what else is new? It's true what they say about the forties; they are a fuck fest of non-specific, non-responding to medicines type pain. If you forget to drink your water, eat your vegetables and exercise for just one day, the repercussions are god-level furious.
I'm learning as I go.
So today I'm a bit hunched over, half-sleepy from the opioid painkillers, feeling as if my tailbone might hate me a little bit...but I'm alive and I'm here so Imma do my best to share my wisdom and knowledge with you.
I've been wondering what I can do, in this time of crisis, to help. I was scrolling down twitter when Kenyans were debating the wisdom of using masks and it came to me that I have knowledge to share and not everyone knows what I know.
So maybe my job at this time is to share knowledge and share information in any way that I can. That's what I can do.
So what's new today? Well, I have a new podcast with my thoughts on the Earth taking it's power back.
Masks are good because you not only protect yourself but also the other person. So they protect you, and you protect them.
Hydroxychloroquine has serious side effects and that's why it's not a first-line antimalarial. It can actually cause some problems with your heart even though this rarely happens. You can also have vision problems. Generally, compared to new generation antimalarials, it's the struggle. Does it help with coronavirus? Some studies say yes, anecdotal data says it might.
But then we mustn't forget the pesky side effects.
This drug is not for everyone even before this pandemic. It's shocking to me to hear that DOCTORS are hoarding it and prescribing it all wily nily in the States as if they don't know any better. They pretend to set so much store in their education, making foreign qualified doctors work as taxi drivers unless they want to go back to first year and yet such a basic thing...they fail. American doctors are also culpable in the Opioid crisis. I gotta say that this president has really helped America show it's ass.
More than the direct things that affect us, we have to think about the indirect effects of this. Job loss, hunger, homelessness...I see very little of that being addressed. Most governments are mostly thinking about saving big business rather than their citizens.
It's every apocalyptic fanfic I've ever read.
Well anyway, listen to this week's episode because it's good AF. Also maybe ask me questions if you have some. I am proficient in health, counselling and a myriad of other things that can be researched.

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