The BG Health Care Thread: Decreasing the Surplus Population

[Buffy]

Maybe one day we'll reach the point where not vaccinating your children results in child services taking the kids away. A man can dream.

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Ah yes, the state clearly knows what is best for all children.

[Byrthnoth]

If they government pays a panel of experts to make a recommendation about the vaccinations that should be mandatory, then I do think those recommendations would be more likely to be correct than the average parent and we would all be better off on average.

A lot of people are idiots and give the wrong answers to easy questions (like vaccination). I do actually think they shouldn't get to choose. If the federal government controlled daycares and public schools, I would 100% be in favor of mandatory vaccination with only medical waivers in order to attend. If people want to avoid it, they can separate themselves from society by homeschooling their kids like the weirdos that want to teach alternative histories.

Believing that the MMR vaccine causes autism and believing that the world is 8000 years old are right next to each other in my ranking of stupid ideas.

[Mrbeansman]

Ah yes, the state clearly knows what is best for all children.

Ah yes clearly someone knows what's best for a child because they shit them out between their legs.

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[Emphasis]

Anti-vax people also seldom put forth credible reasoning for why they won't allow themselves or their kids to be vaccinated.

I've seen way too many "deep-state" and "God's-will" excuses from assholes, and rarely any actual logical counter-points.

[Outlaw]

Utah bans fluoride in public drinking water.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ter-rcna193917

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[Tyrath]

We gonna have to buy fluoride supplements fr huh

[Tomiko]

Semi-recently found out the city I live in is one of these cities. Is fluoride supplements something I should be doing?

[Yabby]

This is purely anecdotal, but most of my family and friends grew up in Oklahoma without fluoridated water, and our dental health isn’t great. Despite brushing twice a day and flossing religiously, I still get at least two cavities a year. Meanwhile, my wife, who grew up in Michigan with fluoridated water and drinks a ton of it, only brushes once a day and never flosses—yet she’s had just one cavity in her entire life. The same goes for most of my Michigan-raised friends; their dental health is noticeably better.

[Tyrath]

Semi-recently found out the city I live in is one of these cities. Is fluoride supplements something I should be doing?

Yes

[archibaldcrane]

If you've ever heard of a flu shot described as "quadrivalent" - that's because it is designed to target two strains of flu A and two strains of flu B.

Since COVID hit, the resulting countermeasures may have rendered one of those two Flu B strains (Yamagata) extinct - it hasn't been seen in nearly 5 years.

https://twitter.com/salonium/status/...vaZa_2zYQ&s=19

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[Buffy]

I’m picking up my cpap machine today. While not excited to sleep in it, I am excited by everything I’ve read regarding how it should improve my sleep

[kuronosan]

It's a game changer. The mask sucks but the difference is night and day for my patients.

[Meresgi]

I’m picking up my cpap machine today. While not excited to sleep in it, I am excited by everything I’ve read regarding how it should improve my sleep

Dude it's a fucking game changer. I used to choke and stop breathing constantly apparently during my sleep to the point where some gfs would mention they thought I died at night. Did a sleep study and I had like 20x minimum requirement to get a cpap and blood oxygen tanked to like 70% or something at one point.

Energy level has been way better now and feel so much better, also no sore throats constantly when waking up due to gasping for breath

[Melena]

thirding the gamechanger. According to the machine they had me take home to test a few years ago, I was stopping breathing upwards to 60 times an hour due to my sleep apnea. At this point now, I don't even notice the mask unless the cushion is starting to leak and I hear the air blowing in the middle of the night.

[archibaldcrane]

My brother, sister, and both my parents use a CPAP

no idea how I'm so lucky to not need one, it sounds like a fucking nightmare

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[mallister]

I thought it was going to be an awful shit experience, but it took me about 3 days to adjust. Incredible QoL change.

[Qalbert]

I should probably see about giving it another shot, I just sleep on my stomach and they said I HAD to be on my back, and also I couldn't get used to the mask so it was just being awake and miserable all night instead of waking up in the morning tired and miserable, lmao

[Meresgi]

Honestly isn't bad at all, only issue I have sometimes is that if I roll on my back in my sleep and the pressure of the air gets wild to keep me breathing, when I shift to my side sometimes the pressure is still very high and starts blowing out around my nose or something where the mask isn't super sealed anymore, which wakes me up. But I just shut off the CPAP, turn it back on and it's fine and dandy.

I do the full face mask since I have a deviated septum, so if you can actually breath through your nose and keep your mouth closed while sleeping then it's even easier because there's just over the nose versions

[mallister]

I should probably see about giving it another shot, I just sleep on my stomach and they said I HAD to be on my back, and also I couldn't get used to the mask so it was just being awake and miserable all night instead of waking up in the morning tired and miserable, lmao

You absolutely do not have to sleep on your back. I literally can't sleep on my back due to a whole host of dumbshit injuries and I've been on a CPAP for a few years now.

[6souls]

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1910421302633996602