Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)
You really need to go rethink your entire life. It is not morally acceptable to debate the value of the lives of human children under any circumstances. Period. They are CHILDREN.
No, even though I watched both series and all the other movies, it was still hard to follow. It was just so poorly written and paced. The editing jumped around, moments with critical information were breezed past without enough time to absorb what just happened.
Honestly, it should have been a great movie. It has all the pieces; they were just so badly executed. It's the first MCU thing I was genuinely excited to see in quite a while, and instead I sat there the whole time wondering how this ever made it through any kind of quality control.
I am prescribed a medication to increase acetylcholine called pyridostygmine by a specialist to treat my ME/CFS. So this knowledge is out there, just not common yet. And as always with these conditions, research funding is virtually non-existent.
Xylazine also causes refractory skin lesions similar to krokodil. Current leading hypothesis is that it's because of localized vasoconstriction leading to tissue necrosis.
Dark healthcare provider humor incoming: When considering these kinds of questions regarding CPR, we actually say, "Well, they ain't getting any deader."
CPR actually reverses death. That's why it only works sometimes and only if provided in a very short window of time after you've died. Nothing that is done during CPR is going to make that worse. So yeah, the reality is that it's a little bit of a controlled free-for-all. It's called "heroic measures" for a reason.
Birds and wildlife in my neighborhood. I'm technically in suburbia, but enough old growth patches have been maintained that we have a surprising amount of wild animals that live in or travel through the neighborhood (Massachusetts, US)
Merlin app is amazing for identifying birds at the feeder I put on my back deck. And the rest of the animals, I mentally collect like Pokemon.
Tenet. I know it became fashionable to hate it, but it's my favorite Christopher Nolan movie because it's just fun to watch, which is not common with Nolan movies.
I think John David Washington and Robert Pattinson have great chemistry. You need to be comfortable with being clueless about what's happening because the story is told from the limited perspective of the main character. If he doesn't know, the audience doesn't know. When he finds out, you find out. So what the movie seems to be "about" shifts a few times based on his perspective and his assumptions.
Yes, it's clearly just an excuse for Christopher Nolan to indulge in impossible looking practical effects scenes and I love it.
Also working at a hospital, we're definitely seeing Covid, and a surprising amount of RSV in older folks. Not a ton of flu yet, but that may be because flu vaccine has good uptake in the elderly population here.
They decided they deserved to make up all the profit they lost during the pandemic, and they were legally able to increase our prices to do exactly that. It's as plain and simple as this.
Contagion (2011) remains the scariest movie I've ever seen, even now that I've lived it. Just imagining an encephalitic virus with a 20-30% mortality rate like the one depicted in the movie makes me nauseous. (Loosely based on real life Nipah virus.)