If people like him had shared these sort of stories more in the early days, it might have helped more Americans to take it seriously.
Wouldn't have mattered.
People wanted to believe what they wanted to believe, religion isn't restricted to the organized ones, we have impromptu cults everywhere as well.
Plenty of them did. That ship sailed the moment the issue got politicized. As with everything else, once it's about taking sides in the current environment, no amount of reality will make a dent.
Tom Hanks got it early on - who doesn't like Tom Hanks.
QAnon, apparently.
Yes, but Tom Hanks didn't get that sick.
People straight up knew people their age that died, and STILL didn’t get vaccinated.
It is hilarious because people were “really dying” of “other things” when the virus destroyed kidneys they “really died of kidney failure.” When it ravaged and stopped the heart it was really “heart disease.” Lungs, pneumonia. But definitely not the virus.
People are fucking stupid and we deserve whatever happens to us.
People who died of COVID usually didn't die with COVID. People who are looking for a reason to blame anything but the virus for deaths point at that distinction as though it is somehow meaningful.
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!
You win.
He almost died. It was near-death. Even he said so. But that wasn't good enough for NBC News. They had to say he "briefly died."
He didn't. You don't come back from death.
You don’t come back from death? Oh yeah?! Then explain Pokémon The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back!
Mew and Mewtwo are fighting and Ash jumps in between them because he doesn’t want them to fight. They kill him and bro falls to the ground and turns to stone. Then Pikachu tries to wake him up with slaps and thunder shocks, but fails to wake him up as Pikachu breaks out into tears. All the other Pokémon witnessing this start crying over Ash’s courageous sacrifice and Pikachu’s loss, that their tears fly away or whatever, and those tears flow into Ash’s body. He then turns back to flesh and he’s like, “Yo I’m alive and that hurt, but I’m alright.”
As an official Old™, you lost me at Pokemon.
How dare you
I’m old and I fucking love Pokémon
I will always love Pokémon
I will be buried with a Raichu
Hey, my wife is way into YA books. You do you, friend. It all confuses me.
The movie is 27yrs old. Even if you were 70, you'd have been middle aged when it released.
Which movie, Pokemon? I was in my 20s and not really interested in kids movies.
Ha, I’m also a member of the official Old myself! Pokémon was my childhood when it came out 30 years ago, so I’m a more junior member than you
Same thing happened to me once tbh. It can happen.
It's a children cartoon movie
Very good, sir. This explanation seems air tight to me.
haha , tihs made me laugh
You don’t come back from death.
If you've seen Narcan work, you'd change your mind.
And, very rarely, hospital trauma patients have been brought back from what's defined as death, to life. But the timing, the on-hand staff and equipment has to be varied, be many, and be relevant. And also a lotta luck.
Defined as death by whom? What are their criteria for this definition?
If your whole body goes through a chipper, is there a moment where all or most of your cells are still alive?
Are you defining death as 'none of your cells are alive?'
I suppose some people would consider Henrietta Lacks to be alive, but I wouldn't.
Otherwise, I don't understand the point of your question. It's neither a definition nor a list of criteria. But I would not be surprised if some human cells lived for a while after going through a wood chipper.
Back in January, in the hospital, my heart stopped for 8 seconds. I was asleep, I had no idea. I woke up and was fiddling on my phone, nurse comes in:
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Um... thank you? I don't know how to respond to that..."
I have a heart monitor connected to my phone now, continuously monitoring. It's stopped a few more times since then, 4 seconds here, 5 seconds there. Doc says not to worry about it, no cause for a pacemaker yet.
So, like a whole hour goes by before they check on a person who's heart stopped? That would be in my review for said, "hospital".
In fairness, it did re-start on it's own before they could do anything.
But that was my question...
"None of the monitors went off... well, I don't THINK they went off..."
"Oh, yeah, they went off at the nurses station..."
Apparently "pauses" like that aren't uncommon for folks who just had their 2nd heart attack. Since then I've had shorter ones in the 4-5 second range. All when I've been asleep.
Doc says it's not concerning unless it happens when I'm awake and the only thing I've had like that is either skipped beats or extra beats, which I gotta say, feels super fucking weird. I have passed out or nearly passed out a couple of times just trying to walk down a hallway.
All that being said, yeah, we go out of our way to avoid that hospital now.
Until there is cause
Well, that's what the implant is for. Battery's good for 3-4 years.
My dad went into cardiac arrest for 15 min. He said he saw nothing, too.
Isn't that a good sign - less brain damage?
Doesn't this dude have a toddler or kindergartener at 84?
Looks it.
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