Here’s the latest incredible nonsense from Mayor for Life Bloomberg, aka Big Nanny.
“Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials unveiled a new initiative to limit supplies of prescription painkillers in the city’s emergency rooms as a way to combat what they described as a growing addiction problem in the region.”
“The city hospitals we control, so…we’re going to do it and we’re urging all of the other hospitals to do it, voluntary guidelines. Somebody said, oh, somebody wrote, ‘Oh then maybe there won’t be enough painkillers for the poor who use the emergency rooms as their primary care doctor,’” the mayor said on his weekly radio show with John Gambling. “Number one, there’s no evidence of that. Number two, supposing it is really true so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit. The other side of the coin is people are dying and there’s nothing perfect….There’s nothing that you can possibly do where somebody isn’t going to suffer and it’s always the same group [claiming], ‘Everybody is heartless.’ Come on, this is a very big problem.”
Here’s the full article:
Here’s what Mayor For Life Bloomberg sees as the overriding problem:
“But if you get 20 days worth of pills and you only need them 3 days, there’s 17 days sitting there. Invariably some of the kids are going to find them, or you’re going to take them and get you addicted.”
Invariably?? To quote someone I forget: “Number one, there’s no evidence of that.”
Thank God my doctor is understanding of long-term pain. I recently switched from one painkiller to another, and not much difference. Both are restricted narcotics. Both work.
This a$$clown (Bloomberg) needs to keep his nose out of the relationships of doctors and their patients.
Occasionally I do a pill holiday, and it feels like my hips and knees and one arm are all in a vice, the jaws closing down and applying pressure.
Bloomberg is anal-aggressive
Pill holidays, huh?
Good. I’m not the only one to check my own baseline
My doc is great……..very low daily dose of slow-release opioids + a jar of harder-hitting stuff for occasional use on day-long bicycle rides
VERNAL — A man says Vernal police disrupted an intimate moment of mourning with his deceased wife of 58 years when they searched his house for her prescription medication without a warrant within minutes of her death.
Barbara Alice Mahaffey died of colon cancer in her bedroom last May. Ben D. Mahaffey, 80, said he was distraught and trying to make sure his wife’s body would be taken to the funeral home with dignity, when he says officers insisted he help them look for the drugs.
“I was holding her hand saying goodbye when all the intrusion happened,” he told the Deseret News.
Barbara Mahaffey died at 12:35 a.m. with Mahaffey, a Navy medic in the Korean War, and his friend, an EMT, at her side. In addition to police, a mortician and a hospice worker arrived at the home about 12:45 a.m., Mahaffey said. He said he doesn’t know how police came to be there.
“I was indignant to think you can’t even have a private moment. All these people were there and they’re not concerned about her or me. They’re concerned about the damn drugs. Isn’t that something?” Mahaffey said.
Mahaffey said he was treated as if he were going to sell the painkillers, which included OxyContin, oxycodone and morphine, on the street.
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Police drug search intrudes on husband’s final moments with deceased wife
Jethro, Big Nanny has an answer for your situation:
“… so you didn’t get enough painkillers and you did have to suffer a little bit.”
Or perhaps you could eat cake.
Boy, would I like to get a look at Bloomberg’s medical records! I doubt he ever “suffers a little bit” from lack of treatment.
Charles, that story is mind-numbing. Why are American citizens putting up with this shit?? How did we get to the point that our police are willing to DO this shit??
This country seems to be heading toward a second revolution. There does not appear to be anything else that will work, not with a president who thinks he can restructure gun laws by edict.
Well, when you have people at all levels of government thinking the precautionary principle trumps all else including civil liberties…
Larry said: “Or perhaps you could eat cake.”
In fact, when I used to have migraines, it seemed to me that if I ate a chocolate bar, the pain would subside for a little while. (‘Might have been psychological, though.)
MetaLark: Could that be the caffeine in the chocolate?
Dang, VISE, not VICE!
I have both, especially vices, but I meant VISE in my earlier post.
Jethro, I’m sure we all got your meaning.
I have a problem with my computer’s omitting random letters whenever I type text–it’s definitely not due to typos, but to some kind of electronic failure. I always have to go back and check whether any symbols have been left out, and sometimes I’ll overlook one. I recently wrote a sentence which contained the word “inolerant” (with a dropped “t”); I was being very vehemently intolerant of intolerant people. It was only after I’d hit the send button that I realized the spelling error; I felt so foolish–all that heat wasted, since the reader’s attention was bound to be directed toward the error rather than the point I was making.
(Yes, Larry, I know: tolerance isn’t always a virtue. But in this case I was expressing disrespect for the Intolerati’s objections to people’s benign expressions of their religious faith, as in “Merry Christmas.”)
My experience in recent times is that the people who talk about tolerance all the time are the least tolerant people there are. What they really mean is: “you must tolerate our point of view … only.”
As for a computer making truly random spelling/typing errors, I have to say it’s conceiveable, but not very likely. I used to make my living typing without error, but lately … I’d go broke! I’m afraid that human error is much more likely. Still – have you tried a different keyboard? Sounds silly perhaps, but it can make a huge difference. Sometimes I THINK I’ve type a letter, but didn’t because my hands are not as sensitive to the keyboard as they used to be (and modern keyboards suck). Oh, for the days of the IBM Selectric!
Firefox has a spell checker that checks just about everything typed into text boxes. That’s been a big help to me. Here-to-fore, I’ve had to run just about everything I typed through a text editor.
I thought at first that it had to be the keyboard, since I still use my 24-year-old IBM PS2 keyboard. I like this keyboard better than any keyboard I’ve ever used–I like the ease of pressing the keys and the definitive feel of the action. (In fact, when my employer started getting rid of the IBM PS2s, I went and dug a couple of keyboards out of the trash can–with the boss’s permission of course–and took them home, in case my own ever broke. (But it hasn’t.))
After I bought my latest PC (about five years ago), I had to buy a PS2-to-USB converter for this great old keyboard.
But anyway, at one time I substituted one of them-there new-fangled modren keyboards with a USB connection; and that wasn’t it; the problem persisted. And no, I’m certain the dropped symbols are not from human error. I know this because my keyboard has three little green lights on it–one each for “Num Lock,” “Caps Lock,” and “Scroll Lock.” Sometimes when I’m typing I’ll catch a green flash from that area of the keyboard; when I see that, then I know that a symbol or two has been dropped.
I had a friend who’d had a similar problem about two years before mine appeared. So, when this started happening, I asked him how he had fixed his; he said it was a laptop for which the battery had gone bad, and he’d been running exclusively off AC power. When he replaced the battery, the problem disappeared.
But that couldn’t be my problem because mine is a desktop computer–no battery. (Though I wonder whether there could be some kind of a power pack glitch.)
Could be antivirus software or some other process that runs for a short period at such a high priority that the keyboard driver doesn’t get any processor time. Could be the keyboard driver. Could be a glitchy USB port. You might try swapping the keyboard to a different port.
This might be of some help: Troubleshoot keyboard problems
My problem has been with my mouse. My two wireless ones stopped working altogether. Switching USB ports didn’t fix them. I’m back to using an old wired one. But it stops several times a day and I have to unplug-replug to get it working again.
MetaLark:Is the letter “a” or even better the letter “A” one of the ones that gets dropped often??
Larry, I haven’t noticed that any one letter gets dropped more often than another. I believe it’s random.
Yesterday I typed stuff from my head–poems, song lyrics, unimportant thoughts–for a long while, while watching the three green indicator lights (to determine which was flashing), but it never happened during that time. The fact that it didn’t happen while I was concentrating on noticing when it happened, makes me wonder whether indeed I am doing something to provoke it–like maybe accidentally depressing another key simultaneously.
On the other hand, perhaps it’s just coincidence that it didn’t happen. I think it occurs more often at times, less often at others.
Oh, well. I’ll let you know if I ever discover the cause.
Well, I asked about the letter “A” because I myself have a frequent problem with hitting the CAPS LOCK key, which is immediately to the left of the “A” and just above the much-used SHIFT key. I don’t have the LED warning lights for the CAPS LOCK, etc., keys, so if I hit CAPS LOCK instead of “A” and am not watching, I won’t know it…but the “A” won’t be there. This seemed exactly what was happening to you, and I thought it possibly significant that you mention the three LED keys in this context. But it’s only a guess.
I find that I often hit CAPS LOCK these days because keyboards are getting squished, in addition to having far less tactile feedback than those wonderful old IBM keyboards like you have. After a half-century of typing on old Corona electrics, my first typewriter, then Royal manuals (my alltime favorites even though they weighed about 80lbs) and then Selectrics, I find computer keyboards to be amazingly inferior. I guess they are largely ignored because people exptect to phase them out entirely before long. Good luck with that, I say; probably not going to happen as fast as they think.
Anyway, do let us know if you figure it out. I like these little mysteries.