ALT[VD: Bugs Bunny saying "Really?" in a high-pitched, excited manner.]
literally makes no sense that poor ppl are passing around the same $20 to eachother meanwhile millionaires & billionaires are sitting on their asses or telling us to donate to causes that they could solves with their own money and still have enough left over to live comfortably.
it’s also fucked up that fat people literally fear going to the doctor for anything because they know the first thing out of their dr’s mouth no matter what their ailment is, is gonna be “lose weight lol” broken leg? lose weight. rash? lose weight. whooping cough? lose weight binch!!!!! like we get it. but can you just write my prescription you bitch so i can go eat a salad and not call you again until im about to die of the plague????
I would not be surprised if someone did a study and found an increase in misdiagnosis of fat patients due to doctors focusing solely on weight loss as a panacea and ignoring other vital issues
You mean like this article from the NY Times (from September of 2016) talking about how doctors refuse to consider non weight related issues until they absolutely have to?
Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat
Or this study showing that even though the bias is often unintentional it greatly changes patient care?
Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity
Or this study that showed that maternity providers have a bias towards obese women and often provide subpar care or push elective procedures?
Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes
Fat Shaming Tied to Increased Risk of Metabolic Problems
this one that says that obese people who are made to feel bad about their weight are 41% more likely to have medical complications as a result of the internalized stress (high cholesterol, high sugars, high blood pressure- or need meds to treat those conditions), versus people who don’t feel stigmatized.
‘People First’ – Ending Weight Bias in Diabetes Care
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Evidence also indicates that doctors may spend less time in appointments, provide less health education, build less rapport, have lower expectations for medication adherence, and have less desire to help patients with obesity compared with thinner patients.
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I think about this every time I see something saying that obesity is a high risk factor for any other illness.
And if you want to know how far that can spread, just watch a smoker or a vaper exhale & see how far the cloud travels.
every once in a while im really like how are we living in a culture where young women are having the hygiene olympics on social media and deciding it’s ‘unhygienic’ to not have a 42 step skincare and makeup routine at the same exact time that 99% of able-bodied people insist that there is nothing unhygenic or rude about not wearing a mask in public during a pandemic.. like what
ALTthis is literally it.. the entire concept of hygiene has been divorced from the concept of preventing the spread of illness and now in some ways almost exclusively refers to this very specific consumerist gendered performance of activities intended to make someone appear more "attractive".
it's similar to how instead of things like pleasurable movement and nutritious food being recognized as human needs being denied to populations systemically through capitalist labor structures and food deserts, it's seen as something well-off people do (rather than access) to "be attractive"
(in which "attractive" is usually shorthand for an unspoken but recognized eugenic ideal. the implication is that the ability to engage in pleasurable non-damaging movement and to get enough nutritious calories to not suffer debilitating deficiencies is a "choice" that will "reshape" people into the eugenic ideal, to obscure that in reality people who are already closer to the eugenic ideal are the people who are given access to these resources that literally all humans need, and then further rewarded for having access to them. & this is almost always connected to systems of anti-fatness & ableism in which fat and disabled people are seen as "choosing" to be "unhealthy" and therefore literally systemically denied proper healthcare. and then they're blamed for any health complications that result from that continuous neglect, forever in a catch-22 of organized abandonment and social resentment).
there's just such a complete distortion of the concept of health. it's completely divorced from literal human rights & collective health & disability justice. it feels like being gaslit seeing self-proclaimed "healthy"/"hygienic" people who are so completely unconcerned with actual issues of human health and safety, constantly doing things that actively endanger the health of other people. it's so backwards.
Her name is Katalin Karikó. Hungarian. Daughter of a butcher. Her thesis work became the basis of the mRNA vaccine technology. Read the article here.
It’s a fascinating article. So thankful for Dr. Kariko, and the tons of unsung, underfunded scientists like her!
Oh, god. I understand now. This look Aziraphale has right after Crowley kissed him. I didn't understand why he'd look disgusted when we as the audience know that their feelings are mutual, and as Neil hinted, they both wanted to confess in this episode, but the Metatron changed that. "Do it again."
Richard Siken//Good Omens
