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perpetual-fandom-brainrot · 5 months

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Temporary Relocation Ch. 2

Read the previous chapter here Basic premise: Reader has arrived on TF 141's base after a transfer due to a special experimental surgery and is now receiving the initial medical checkup. If you cannot handle reading about needles, blood, and/or medical procedures, I recommend you do not read this. Bold text where the medical section ends.

You flinched a little as you felt a needle being pressed into your skin, followed by a nurse murmuring, "I'm sorry."

"It's fine," you grumble to the best of your ability, "just wasn't expecting bloodwork." The woman's lips pursed in silent understanding as she watched the tube fill with the crimson liquid.

"Would it offend you if I said I admire you?" Her inquiry came as the seconds ticked by.

"Why?" You almost scoffed. It felt as though she was patronizing you just because you were a fresh face. Noting your irritation, she hesitated a moment.

"You're a soldier. Despite that, you took a surgery that could've ripped it away from you. It still could."

The nurse's words served to soften your expression, but they weren't what you found to be echoing in your head. In one ear and out the other, while your mind was ashamed of the fact that you'd prioritized the financial gain.

"Yeah, well," you grunted as she dislodged the needle once the tube was full, "we've all got our reasons for things, don't we?" Her focus on the tube left you without a verbal response to your question.

Next, your ears and tail were tested. What you could currently hear, sounds you'd probably be able to hear once everything was healed, the range of motion your tail currently had and how much it hurt when touched or moved in certain ways. That was how you found just how sensitive your tail actually was. Each foreign sensation shot sensations from the base of your spine up to the top. What the hell did they do with it? No other parts of your body ever had that kind of sensitivity.

The nurse hummed as she took all of the information down on your chart, you had zero doubt it would be confidential to anyone who didn't 'need-to-know.' As she read back over her notes, her expression only changed slightly. Enough you could tell she was thinking, but not for you to tell what was good and what was bad.

"They seem to have really intertwined your tail with your spinal nerves. I'll get this back to the main lab and send it off for data collection. In the meantime, take these," she handed you a bottle that contained the smallest pills you'd ever seen, "the dosage and when to take them is on the label. It should help dull the sensations from your tail. Pharmacy only signed off on this one bottle before you arrive. There's not much, but it should get you used to how the drugs work."

You nodded as you took the bottle, settling it into your pocket.

"If you don't have any other questions or concerns, you're free to go," she stated before writing some last minute notes.

"Actually, one question," you scrunched your face as you gently poked one of your ears, "is there an estimate on how long it'll take before the soreness goes away?" Not knowing how much longer you would be off-duty was driving you insane.

A moment of silence passed before the nurse found a conclusive answer in the notes, "you should get used to how things are in a few weeks. The soreness should be completely gone about two months from now. I can't say how long it'll take for you to learn how to use your new senses, that depends on you."

You nodded curtly, "thank you," before standing up and heading for the door. "And thanks for the meds, doc," you concluded before leaving.

Absent-mindedly wandering around base afterwards sent you to the canteen. You couldn't consciously remember the last time you ate anyway. You approached the main counter, discovering the remains of the lunch platters. Your selection turned out to be an amalgamation of sorts. Not that you could complain given the limitations. However, your last minute considerations were interrupted by a gruff Scottish voice from behind.

"They hurt?" He nodded towards your ears. You smiled softly as you turned to face him, plate in hand.

You shook your head as you responded, "not as bad as they did. Get an earful from that lieutenant earlier?"

"You could say that," he muttered. The irritation in his voice was evident, and the glaring look in his eyes made it even more so.

"Sounds bad, I won't push. Guy seems to have a real hothead."

"Only if ya know how to piss him off," he chuckled, "which doesn't take much. Nice to meet you, I'm Soap. Soap MacTavish," and he held out his hand for you to shake. So you did.

"Y/n L/n," you began, "might make my field name Whiskers when the time comes." Soap laughed a little.

"L.t'll definitely have fun with that one. Ghost isn't usually a jokes guy," he told you.

"He'll absolutely hate me, then," you concluded. "Wanna go sit? My mouth is watering knowing food is a foot away from it."

MacTavish promptly turned and marched towards a table, where Gaz was already sitting. Soap settled in front of a previously lonely plate, amalgamated similarly to yours with significantly less organization. Food instantly found its way to your mouth when your bum found the table bench.

"How'd the checkup go? All good?" Gaz asked. You nodded and partnered it with a thumbs up. He gave a solid nod in response. "Can you still hear out of your human ears?" You watched his eyes flicking up to your cat ears, then back to where your human ears were. Another shake of your head, this time you swallowed your food to talk.

"Nah, they rerouted my hearing network. My sense of balance is supposed to be enhanced by my tail, too, but right now it's too sore for me to find use in that," both Soap and Gaz were just staring at your ears while you explained. You felt yourself internally shrinking under the scrutiny, your body temperature rising in a way you prayed wouldn't be visible.

"What can you hear now, then?" Soap chimes in. Your saliva felt heavy as it went down your throat the next time you swallowed, then passively rested a smile on your face in hopes of concealing the sudden jitters.

"A lot more than I could," you admitted. Your tone sounded more cautious than you wanted it to. Willing your vocal cords to steady, you continued, "the helicopter was hell before I put the headphones on. Like I could hear the electricity signals coming from all of the buttons and wires."

"Bloody loud bastards, helicopters," he scoffs, but in agreement with your own distaste. "Can't imagine what it's like to hear everything comin' from 'em, I'd cross Scotland on foot to avoid that special little hell."

"Thanks," you ensured your tone was flat and void.

"Real reassuring there, sergeant," Gaz added. Simultaneously, the three of you let out some laughs, albeit small ones. "Did they tell you how long you'd be staying here before you could go on missions?"

Memories of the nurse's words had you groaning miserably, "a few months, at least. There's still a lot of variables with this." You felt like directly mentioning the nurse's comment about how intertwined your tail was would've been a bad move. Experiments have their kinks, after all. "At least I've got company," you shrugged off your previous frustration before sending a smile to Soap, "pretty entertaining company too, it seems."

"Always gettin' into trouble doesn't mean I'm entertainment," he playfully spat back.

"I don't know MacTavish, the lieutenant seems to have it out for you. You pick his nerves too often for anyone to get bored watching it," Gaz throws in.

"See? It's two against one! For someone with soap as a field name, you sure are bad at slipping out of situations," you sent a shit-eating grin to the mohawk-donning sergeant. He scoffed but sent a smirk of his own back at you.

"Not all of 'em, you'll see when you're finally on the field with me and the team."

"I'm sure I will," you responded as you moved to throw out your empty plate. "This was a good meal and a great chat, but I need rest. It's been hours." You don't wait for approval before turning and heading for where Gaz had gestured to personal quarters earlier, but you made sure to wave and call a "catch up with you boys later," over your shoulder.

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Defeated and harsh sighs pushed their way up your throat as you closed the door to your personal quarters. This was your room, yet it looked just as plain as the rest of the halls of the base. At least your stuff had been very kindly dropped off for you already. You made quick work of adjusting the space to be as close to your own as possible. Personal trinkets, photographs, posters, and other small decorations littered the walls and desks alike when you finished. It was nothing too much- certainly not close to what you had on your own room at home- but it was nice at the same time.

Finishing making the bed was what had you deciding to take a shower. The switches were easy enough to figure out once you entered the bathroom, and before long you were under a stream of comfortably warm water. It had been awhile since you got to properly bathe, since you were in too much pain directly after the surgery to do anything other than sponge clean. You hadn't been allowed to do that yourself, either. Your tail couldn't be disturbed nearly at all for the first two weeks, back when you were still being held at the hospital. Memories flooded you as you washed yourself up.

You hissed in pain as the nurse gently adjusted your tail here and there. Even the slightest movements shot harsh jolts up your spine, but you were sure it'd be worse if you looked over your shoulder and watched all of it happen. You did your absolute best to stay still, contrary to your body's screaming urges.

"That concludes this set of testing," she stated. Her pen scribbles were the only thing that filled the room for a moment before she continued, "I'll send the next batch of staff in now."

You snapped yourself out of it, quickly disabling the faucet and stepping out of the shower before you could remember anything else. Fatigue blanketed itself around you and burrowed into the warmth of the clothes you changed into. A yawn pried your mouth open as you settled into your bed and carefully pulled your blanket over your body. It didn't take you long to fall asleep after that.

#141 #call of duty #cod #ghost #john soap mactavish #cod mw2 #cod mwii #cod x reader #johnny mactavish #temporary relocation fic #simon ghost riley #kyle gaz garrick #captain john price #captain price #tf 141 #tf 141 x reader #task force 141 #task force 141 x reader

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rob-pattinson · 4 years

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Spread COVID-19 Awareness (II)

After sharing my first post in order to give a little more information about this virus that’s interesting the whole world in this period, I would like to bring your attention on some details/essential points from it.

It is very important that you understand that panicking and raiding/assaulting supermarkets/pharmacies is the last thing to do. Food and meds are not gonna be infected by the virus and those activities won’t be shut down by anyone because they are the primary needs especially in these situations. So please stop thinking you need supplies because some sort of apocalypse is here, because it’s not. When people with a little brain tell you that you need to stay in your house, it means that any social contact has to be minimized to almost zero because the only way the virus spreads is throught that. Staying in your home will help you to stay safe (aka meet less people as possible so that you have the lowest probability to get infected).

It is very important that you understand that underestimating the contagion means acting like stupids for two reasons: 1) you are ignoring the WHO statements and rules told by an organization whose main aim is to protect the health of the whole world and you are in this way helping the virus to spread and the contagion to not stop — yes, you are being the cause together with all the others who act like you; 2) the situation doesn’t need to be complicated to the point to scare people, but you are simplifing it very much by acting like it’s nothing dangerous: the COVID-19 spreads very quickly, it means that it’s very likely to get infected if there’s someone infected near you and you don’t even know and then you start passing it to whoever you come in contact too. The problems of falling in this bad cycle are two: a) the probability the virus infects a person at risk goes higher second by second (literally); b) it is humanly impossible to take care of thousands of people all together in hospitals, that’s why if a severe number of people gets infected all at the same time and need to be hospitalized/go in intensive care, it could cause a whole collapse and drastic measures will be taken (like literally choosing who to save and who can’t be saved). If you don’t believe what I’m writing, that’s what’s happening in Northern Italy in these exact days after containment/precaution measures have been taken too late, while the rest of the country is now all locked and quarantined to try to slow down the contagion and the spreading of the virus because a high number of infected/worse cases could cause a collapse of the entire system and in Nothern Italy hospitals are already at 200% capacity meaning they can’t afford not even one more infected by the cases there are raising day by day of thousands and thousands.

Yes, COVID-19 numbers talk clearly about the fact that to be more at risk are elders, people with other diagnosed issues/diseases/illnesses and immunocompromised people, but this doesn’t allow you not even remotely to not care about them. That’s why WHO declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, because of the high level on misinformation, inaction and precautions not taken. The COVID-19 is less deadly than many other viruses before, but it’s killing so many more people because it is highly contagious.

It is a fact that the whole world is going through a global infection by COVID-19 (it’s a pandemic), so the only ways to stop it are two: 1) it spreads and catches everyone and who dies, dies; 2) we can follow these preventive measures to contain it and protect as much people at risk as we can until a cure will be ready.

The keyword is NO-PANIC. Panic causes tunnel vision and that’s the last thing we need, what we need now is AWARENESS, PRECAUTION, CARE, HYGIENE. We DON’T NEED raiding supermarkets, we are not going towards the apocalypse! And we definitely do NOT need to buy tons of toilet paper because tbh I don’t even know what they need all that paper for maybe they want to play to become mummies.

What we all need is to pay attention, STAY IN YOUR HOUSES as much as you can and go out only to buy food/meds and toilet paper, wash your hands, practice hygienic measures etc.! (Read my first post to check all these details and make sure to navigate in the WHO official site for everything else you want to know.)

Don’t listen to the ones who minimize the situation showing you graphs they don’t even know how to read. Don’t listen to media that spread panic either. Check numbers from verified sources, facts. Some countries are going through a hard time (China just recently is doing better, Italy has not even reached the peak of contagion and it’s already in a bad situation registering more than +2k cases of infection day by day and around +200/+250 new deaths each day, Iran is following and soon Europe and USA etc), others registered less than ten cases, others registered one and they are also resolved meaning the infected has not the virus anymore. Trying to reassure people that COVID-19 is not a highly-deadly virus is one thing (which is also true, so do NOT panic), but covering your eyes to not be afraid is another. Know and BE AWARE that the risk is real especially if the infection spreads on a mass of people (high chance that in those people many are “at risk”), the contagion is quick and no country can afford a massively spread infection.

If your country is not taking measures against the contagion, you need to start doing it yourself and when you go out you need to stay protected and clean (bring hands sanitizers with you, use only surgical masks and leave the high-tech ones to the doctors that stay 24/24 in contact with infected people, maintain social distance eg. more than 1 meter of distance from others, etc.). Also, check this post and be sure to stay at home if you feel those symptoms, take care of yourself and if it gets worse (breathing issues, high temperature) seek medical care asap!

If you can, DONATE, to all the hospitals/organizations that need more help in your country, even a small amount can make the difference.

Last but not least: while I write posts, people don’t care about the virus, people make memes, people get sick, people recover and people die from it, others in other labs of the world are running non-stop to find a cure. I’ve heard about these but I’m no expert so I’m just linking some excerpts here from articles I’ve found: - A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University and the University of Toronto has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. - A commonly used arthritis drug has shown “excellent results” in two coronavirus patients and a national protocol for its extensive use against the virus should be drawn up, oncologist Paolo Ascierto of Naples' Pascale Hospital (in Italy) said Wednesday. The drug, tocilizumab, “has shown it is effective against pneumonia caused by COVID-19,�� he said. One of the two patients has even been taken off life support because of the good improvement in his condition. (An arthritis drug has been already tested/used also in patients with COVID-19 in China and the response was good there too).

I’m mostly concerned to write these posts also because in my country (Italy) the situation is still very bad, and the rest of the world is weeks behind us but what you can do is LEARN from our mistakes and have a better situation/response to the virus, and not ignore it.

#coronavirus #covid19 #covid 19 #text #important #spread!

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macgyvermedical · 4 years

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A Nurse Wrote This Movie: A Medical Review of Knives Out

Whoa.

Honestly, all I can say, this movie was amazing.

I don’t think I’ve ever been treated to a movie that was both this complex and still this easy to understand. I wasn’t left wondering at the end, and despite the number of times my understanding of the central crime changed, it didn’t ever feel whiplash-y or like anything was played for shock value. It was a journey through the story and it was consistently enjoyable, all 130 minutes of it.

But please, seriously, go see it for yourself before reading this post, there will absolutely be spoilers and this is a movie you don’t want spoiled.

Before I really get into it, I want to tell you that the medicine (though, I suppose, particularly the nursing) in this movie was good. Really good. Much, much, much better than I expected. What I really, really appreciated was that the resolution of the case came from something that only a nurse would know. If i had to guess, not only was there a nurse consulting, but one was part of the central writing team.

There’s really only one scene to talk about, but it spans parts of the whole movie. Here’s my explanation/review of the evening meds scene and how it relates to real life and the rest of the movie. Apologies for the lack of relevant screenshots, once the movie comes out on streaming or DVD I will have more options. Also apologies in that I have only seen this once in theaters and I am working from memory.

PICCs:

One of the main characters, Marta, is a homecare nurse for the wealthy victim Harlan Thrombey. Early in the movie, we are given a scene where she is giving him two medications for a recent shoulder injury- ketorolac and morphine- before bed.

Harlan Thrombey has a PICC in his left arm that Marta uses to administer the medications. PICCs, or Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters, are medical devices that are designed to allow medical professionals to administer IV medications and draw blood without having to start an IV or stick someone with a needle. Once inserted, they can stay in for 6-12 months, and they’re really helpful for patients who either need IV fluids/medications at home (long-term IV antibiotic therapy, for example), or who require repeated doses of medications that could be damaging to the smaller veins that traditional “peripheral” IV catheters sit in (chemotherapy, total parenteral nutrition).

PICCs consist of one or more “ports” that are accessible from the outside (the blue nubs in the pic below, where the medication goes in), and a long, flexible tube that sits in a large, deep vein that ends near the heart.

We don’t know a lot about Harlan’s medical history in the movie other than the injury to his shoulder that causes him to need the pain medication. A shoulder injury alone would not justify the insertion of a PICC, so we have to assume that either he had an existing serious health condition like cancer, or the shoulder injury was really an infection in one of the bones of his shoulder, which would justify a PICC on the basis of needing IV antibiotics multiple times per day. Since they seem to have thought of everything else, I would choose to go with that.

Medications:

The first medication’s generic name is ketorolac. Ketorolac is an NSAID, similar to ibuprofen, and works by blocking some of the chemicals that cause pain and inflammation in the tissue. It’s usually not given long-term, but for short term things like surgery or an injury it works pretty well and decreases the amount of narcotic pain medication needed. For someone over 65, the normal schedule for ketorolac would be 15mg IV every 6 hours. Marta would probably keep him pretty close to this schedule, because it’s his primary pain control beyond heat, ice, elevation, and possibly some form of physical therapy.

Morphine is an opioid. It works by blocking pain signals in the brain. It’s been around for a while, works pretty well and pretty quickly, but it’s not great for long term use either due to the fact that the body builds up a tolerance to it and it has the potential to be addicting.Since Marta seems to offer it to him instead of stating she’s going to give it to him, it looks like it was prescribed for “breakthrough” or as emergency pain relief if the ketorolac wasn’t doing enough, which is a pretty typical way to prescribe pain medication.

Now, you’ll notice that despite it reading “ketorolac” on the vial, the characters refer to the first medication by it’s brand name “Toradol” throughout the movie. This impressed me because in a medical setting, we colloquially refer to some medications by their generic name, while others we refer to by their brand names. There’s no particular rhyme or reason to the colloquial naming (though age of the drug plays in), and you kind of have to work in medicine to know which is which. We typically refer to Toradol by it’s brand name, while we refer to morphine by it’s generic. If you asked me for ketorolac or Astramorph (a brand name of IV morphine) it would just sound... weird. But its something fiction gets wrong all the time and it’s cool they got this right. For consistancy, I’m going to continue using the generic name for both medications throughout this post.

Medication Administration:

Marta goes about injecting the ketorolac first. This was yet another thing that added a little spark of nursing realism to the movie, because while not everything was shown, what was shown was done accurately. Here’s the steps to administering an IV medication through a PICC:

Open syringe package (draw needle is usually already attached)

Draw up air into syringe equal to the amount of volume of medication you want to draw

Clean top of vial with alcohol swab

Insert draw needle into vial and inject air

Flip vial/needle upside down and draw medication into syringe, recap draw needle (label syringe if giving multiple medications/doses)

Unclamp the PICC port you want to use and clean the port cap with an alcohol swab

Twist a prefilled saline syringe onto PICC port cap, and inject 5ml saline into the port

Twist draw needle off of syringe and discard into sharps container

Twist medication syringe onto PICC port cap

Inject medication

Twist off medication syringe and discard

Twist saline syringe back onto cap, inject the remaining 5ml of saline to flush the entire medication dose into the person’s vein

Untwist the saline syringe and reclamp the port

They reference the dose of ketorolac as being 100mg. As I said above, the normal dose of ketorolac is 15-30mg IV, depending on age. For Harlan, being 85, it’s hard to believe he wouldn’t have gotten 15mg IV every 6 hours max. I think the mix up was intentional, meant to signal to the audience that she was supposed to give the whole vial of ketorolac with each administration, but only a portion of the vial of morphine per administration. Ketorolac does come in single-dose vials, however in this movie all vials were clearly multi-dose vials (which you can tell because the ketorolac vial says “30mg/mL” on the 10mL vial, meaning there’s 300mg of ketorolac in that vial, which would be about 20x the normal dose).

Medication Errors:

Then she goes back to get the morphine, and realizes that she’s made a mistake. Instead of injecting the vial labelled “ketorolac” she’s administered the entire contents of the vial labelled “morphine”- 100mg, she thinks. That’s a LOT of morphine. Definitely enough for a fatal overdose in someone who’s normal dose is 3mg.

Now, med errors are HUGE FREAKING DEALS in the medical world, and Marta would have faced substantial civil and possibly criminal charges. Assuming she survived this without jail time, she would face an investigation by her visiting nurse agency (if she worked for one, which they establish she doesn’t) and/or the board of nursing in her state, which would seek to determine whether this was negligence that lead to the med error (in which she would probably be fired/have her license suspended/revoked), or a systemic problem (in which case she would be in the clear).

I think Marta actually has a pretty good case for this being a systemic issue rather than a negligence one. The vials look extremely similar, and even if she had done everything she was supposed to do, its plausible this could have happened despite her reasonable efforts to prevent it (she could have put it down last minute and picked up the other vial by accident, and had the label facing the wrong way as she was drawing up the medication). If nothing else, since the morphine vial was not specially identified as a narcotic, it would at least shift some of the blame to the pharmacy that filled the prescription.

In the moment, though, knowing what we know about her mom’s citizenship status, this would have been a terrifying situation for her.

Plus, there’s the overarching possibility that she just killed this very powerful person who she’s been caring for for a long time.

Opioid Overdose:

Opioids bind to certain receptors in the brain, decreasing pain signals. Unfortunately, they also decrease signals in the part of the brain that controls breathing. At small doses this isn’t generally a problem, but in overdose situations it can cause respiratory depression (the person breathing too slowly to meet their needs) or respiratory arrest (the person stops breathing on their own entirely), which can lead to death.

A drug called naloxone (brand name Narcan) can stop an overdose by sitting on all those same receptors that an opioid would without actually blocking any signals, which stops the respiratory depression from the opioid pretty quickly. As mentioned in the movie, most pharmacies dispense a naloxone kit along with opioid pain medication, and was the “antidote” Marta was searching for.

Now, in opioid overdose all is not lost if you don’t happen to have naloxone available. Since the cause of death from overdose is lack of breathing, Marta could have called 911 and provided rescue breaths until EMS showed up with naloxone. Even if EMS were 10 or 15 minutes out, he could have easily survived this. But that wouldn’t have made for nearly the murder mystery.

Ironically, this is exactly what happens in the laundromat scene, when it is revealed that the housekeeper Fran figured out what was happening and was attacked with the real morphine vial. When Marta finds her, she immediately looks in her eyes (a hallmark of opioid overdose is pinpoint pupils) and begins providing CPR.

In some areas, community-level CPR guidelines have simplified to “if you find someone not breathing, start CPR”. This is due to the realization that most lay rescuers have a hard time finding a pulse quickly enough to use it to determine whether to start CPR, leading to fatally wasted time in an emergency. The thinking is that it’s better to have people do unnecessary chest compressions than not do necessary ones.

But healthcare professionals are obviously still taught to differentiate between patients who need full CPR and patients who only need rescue breaths, so assuming Fran didn’t go from talking to cardiac arrest from an opioid overdose in less than a few seconds, I would have expected Marta to give rescue breaths until the ambulance arrived.

The Resolution:

Towards the end of the movie, we find that the vials were switched already, and in subconsciously recognizing the (real) difference in viscosity between ketorolac and morphine, Marta had actually, tragically, saved his life. This was probably the best use of a nursing concept I’ve ever seen in fiction, the entire central point of the plot hinging on nursing intuition.

Kudos, writers, kudos.

#Knives out #poison #whump #murder #drugs #movies #movie review

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the-awkward-outlaw · 4 years

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A New Adventure - Pt. 2

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Warnings: none

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Getting Arthur to the doctor’s is no easy task. Walking back to your small home, he’s distracted by everything: the houses, the lawns, cars parked on the street. Everything is foreign to him.

He keeps asking where the horses are and you explain horses and carriages have been replaced by automobiles and that people stopped using horses as a main mode of transportation back in the 1920s.

Your dog Sage is in love with the cowboy. She keeps sniffing him and licking his hand as you walk home. He thinks she’s adorable and keeps patting her head.

Arthur patiently waits in your yard while you put Sage in your house and grab your car keys and wallet. You try thinking about how to get him meds when he’s not insured or even licensed in modern forms.

Getting Arthur into the car is almost a joke. He’s fascinated by your car (a small sedan) and can’t believe this little machine replaced horses and buggies. He’s even more surprised when you tell him it can go over 90 miles an hour. He states he can’t even fathom how fast that is.

He finally sits down in the front leather passenger seat. You turn on the seat warmer out of habit and he finds it weird to have his back and butt being warmed by a chair rather than the other way around.

You start playing a rather neutral playlist of some movie scores so as not to shock him too much. He can’t understand how your phone tells your car what kind of music to play. You tell him what little you know about Bluetooth and he scoffs. “Waves I cannot see,” he says, just like he does in the game with that Marco Dragic guy. You suppress a smile.

He’s in awe when the car moves and how smooth of a ride it is. You try not to speed (you have a horrible habit of not sticking to the speed limit. Common problem in Utah), so that the speed won’t startle him or make him sick. He can’t understand why everyone moves so uniformly, but he also seems to see nothing but chaos in the way the other cars react to the traffic lights.

He asks constant questions about everything he sees, and you debate how much to tell him about things before his brain simply can’t process anything. Shit, if he weren’t already sick, you wouldn’t even be doing this! But observing him at a red light, you see the paleness to his face, the redness in his eyes. He cannot wait anymore.

Once you get to the instacare office, you’re relieved to see your cousin at the desk. She’s a nurse who works here and you’ve been close most of your lives. You pull her aside and tell her without spilling too many details that Arthur needs meds for active TB. She gives you a worried look when you mention he has no insurance, but says she might be able to pull a few strings to put the meds onto yours so the price will be cheaper.

Finally, after talking with her for some time and filling out several forms in which you have to do a lot of guessing, the doc comes out and calls Arthur’s name. Everyone gives Arthur questioning looks, thanks to the fact he’s still in his rugged, dusty clothes.

Arthur gives you a horrified look but you nod and send him on his way. (Author’s note: I know that in realistic situations, they’d give him a TB test that would take two days to develop into a readable outcome, but we’re going to skip that.)

Some time passes and then Arthur comes out with a few slips of paper in his hand. He hands them to you, asking what they are. They’re prescriptions for some very heavy medications, including antibiotics. You finish the last bit of paperwork and thank your cousin again for helping put him on your insurance for this visit.

You drive to the closest grocery store and tell Arthur to stay in the car while you go pick up his meds from the pharmacy. You also firmly tell him not to touch anything, afraid he might accidentally make it so the AC or heater nearly blasts you into space when you come back or he’ll adjust the seats or mirrors or something. He raises his hands to show he won’t touch anything.

You feel kind of bad leaving him alone, but taking him into a grocery store right now with everything else would be a bad thing. Too much stimulation, you think.

When you see how much the meds will cost, you thank God that your insurance provides a spending account to cover meds. You’re also relieved when you see one of the bags has an inhaler in it. The doc must have decided he wasn’t bad enough to need oxygen, not yet anyways. But you know from playing the game he will have a matter of weeks without these medications.

You take Arthur home and then decide, against your better judgement, to let him inside. He promises over and over again that he won’t take advantage of your kindness.

He’s in awe again when he sees the inside of your home. It’s definitely nothing fancy and has the essentials of a modern home, but you remind yourself the homes he’s used to: one room cabins with gas ovens and rickety furniture, sometimes with a loft for the occupants to sleep.

You unpack his meds and figure out what his medication schedule needs to be. You pull out three different large pills and tell him to take them now. You also show him how to work the inhaler and tell him that whenever he feels short of breath or tightening in the chest to use it. You then demand he hand over his cigarettes, throwing them in your trash. He complains, but you tell him the health problems associated with them and how they’ll only make his condition worse.

After he’s taken his meds, you show Arthur your spare bedroom. Your mother used to sleep here when she visited from her home down south, but now that she has her new boyfriend, you hardly see her. Not that you mind, she tends to be a nuisance.

Arthur expresses his gratitude several times. You can see the lost sheep’s look in his eyes still and feel sorry for him. Maybe it would be better if you gave him his meds and sent him back to the cave and to West Elizabeth.

When you suggest this, he automatically turns you down. He’s fascinated by your world and his gang has suffered so much trouble lately, his heart can’t bear what else might come.

It takes a bit of convincing on his part, but you finally decide to let him stay for a few days until he figures out what he wants to do. He thanks you again and offers you a ring as payment. In the game, it must be worth about 8 dollars. Nowadays, probably much more, but you turn him down.

You go out to the kitchen to begin cooking dinner after Arthur gets established in his room. He comes out to watch you and offers to help, but he’s so lost in your small kitchen, you tell him to just sit down at the table.

He does and Sage automatically rests her head on his knee, begging for pets. Arthur seems to be in love already with your dog. Not a surprise, most people do with her.

You cook a quick meal of some Kraft Mac for time’s sake since you do have to get up early and go to work. Arthur’s fascinated by the stove. He finds it strange that every house has an electric stove and oven.

He finds the food you cook even more strange and makes a goofy face after the first bite. It’s obvious he’s not a fan but he graciously eats it without saying a word.

After you clean up dinner, you’d normally go and watch a show before going to bed, but you decide that might not be the best thing to do with Arthur just yet. It’s obvious he’s tired from everything he’s seen today, plus he obviously doesn’t feel good.

You decide to just read a book instead for the night. Arthur stays in your living room, investigating everything. He finds your movie shelf and pulls out a DVD. He opens it. “Is this what books are like these days?”

“What?” you say, coming out of your room and holding a book in your hand. “No, Arthur, that’s a movie. I’ll, um, I’ll show you what a movie is tomorrow. Books still look like this.” You show him the one in your hand.

He takes the book and studies the front cover of The Hunger Games. It’s one of your favorite series and you figure if Arthur wants to read it with you, he might be only semi-lost. He flips open to a random page and reads silently, then he closes it.

“Well, at least that’s one thing that ain’t changed,” is all he says.

You look a bit at his clothes, still rugged and dirty from his adventures. Unfortunately, you’ve no clothes for men except for your dad’s favorite shirt in your cedar chest. He used to wear it a lot before he passed away. You offer to throw his clothes in the washer and also offer him a bath.

He agrees, though you can tell he’s nervous about you seeing him in less than what he’s wearing. You have to reassure him time and time again that you’ve seen more naked people watching TV.

You show him how to work the tub. He’s amazed by how hot water pours from the spout.

He finally gives in and goes into the bathroom, handing you his clothes through the cracked door.

You throw his clothes into the washer, but not after taking a slightly guilty sniff of his shirt. You won’t ever admit it to anyone, but you’ve always wondered what Arthur would smell like. Sure, maybe you harbor a cyber-crush on him, but again it’s not something you’d tell anyone. Especially not him. You smell his shirt and are surprised when it smells like pine and grass.

You throw his clothes into the washer and set a timer on your phone to change it in about 40 minutes.

When you pass the bathroom to go to your bedroom, you can hear Arthur’s deep voice humming a tune you’ve heard him sing when he’s riding his horse. It makes you smile.

After he’s done bathing, he comes out wearing your bathrobe (which barely closes over his broad chest) and a towel wrapped around his waist.

You have to avert your eyes from his chest, trying to hide the blush. He’s blushing too.

He decides to wait in the spare room until his clothes are done. You tell him it’ll be about an hour and a half.

When his clothes are finally finished, you hand them back to him. A few moments later, he opens the door, revealing himself in nothing but his union suit and pants.

You announce you’re going to bed and so you go into your room with Sage. For good measure, you lock the door. You don’t know why you’re so paranoid about Arthur in your house. If he wanted to attack you, he’s had plenty of opportunities to do it. Still, you can’t help but feel a little safer knowing the door’s locked.

It takes you awhile to fall asleep. You hear, through the thin walls of your home, the soft rumble of Arthur as he snores. You wonder what the next few days will bring.

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thiscrimsonsoul · 3 years

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✼ When it comes to worldbuilding, what are some ideas you’d like to explore in rp?

{out of paprikash} I mean... this might sound stupid, but I hate that weird microcosm feeling in rp threads. By microcosm, I mean... nothing exists but this room, this building, this moment. It’s like the rest of the world stops or something. I get that we can’t write about everything that’s happening in the world at once, nor should we try, and that not everything that happens is interesting, but sometimes I feel like there are things that are glossed over that might affect my muse that are just never shown or mentioned in the MCU movies, and that then trickles down into rp threads. Maybe this comes from me having a written 800+ page fantasy novels in which I had to build everything from the proverbial ground up... the characters (races, cultures, languages, religions), the world (countries, geography, politics, history), and the magic systems (what it is, it’s powers and limitations, etc.), that really makes me sensitive to and aware of the fact that an entire world exists around my muse at any given moment. Other characters are out there doing things, the weather is doing things, events are occurring in the world, and that fire outside their bedroom door can’t be ignored, heh. So what I’m getting at is... I would really like to explore more rps that include more of a world feel and not just two people in a nebulous room we haven’t really fully described yet just talking for a while about whatever.

For example... I had a thread where Wanda and Pietro (the other muse) go to visit Clint at his family’s farm. Natasha brings them there. It started at the Avengers complex, moved to a quinjet, then moved to Clint’s farm. Now, granted, not everyone is up for writing NPCs such as Clint, his whole family, and Natasha (although I admit this is how Clint and Natasha became muses for me hahaha) but there was a nice family feel to the thread, discussions about nearby towns and what stores could be found there, a thunderstorm occurred, at one point the twins were left in a room they were told they could stay overnight in and they talked privately before rejoining the group for dinner, like there was a lot going on than just a single conversation between two main muses in a thread.

Another cool thread I have right now with @murder-popsicle involves what happened after the events of Civil War, in which we go into where Steve, Nat, Clint, Wanda, Bucky, Scott, and Sam went after the showdown in Germany and some of them being busted out of the Raft. Vision (my muse in that thread) realizes Tony Stark hasn’t been honest with him about what has become of Wanda and he goes looking for the refugees. It’s an interesting thread because there’s such a disconnect in time, space, and practicality as to what happened to all those characters between the events of Civil War and Infinity War. It’s a lot of fun to explore not only what happened, but how, since there are a lot of tensions between Vision and the others at that time. At one point, Vision and Bucky go to a local pharmacy to get some meds for Wanda to feel better from the tranquilizers, and it’s tense because Bucky doesn’t overly trust Vision, Vision doesn’t really know how to navigate everyday human life, and they’re all fugitives at the moment, so there’s a need to do things in a clandestine or at least lowkey fashion. It’s a lot of fun to explore really expansive ideas like that that we never got to see in the movies. I need more of this, haha.

Again, not everyone is up for writing a lot of NPCs to create that group feel, but I like the sense that they’re in a real world with real consequences and there’s a world outside the room they’re currently talking in, heh. There’s a whole city outside. So that’s the kind of thing I’d love to explore more in threads, like... a storytelling aspect as opposed to just a linear conversation. I feel like a lot of times I get stuck in just writing conversation instead of a story, and I need to get back to my writing roots and work on my worldbuilding aspects again.

And I have no idea if I explained this well at all, but yeah, haha. I tried.

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Stuff I love #5: Black Lightning

To me, this is the best show of 2018. I already made a characters I love about the two daughters of the main character. But there is so much more I love! Can’t wait for October aka season 2!!! I will probably make one when season 2 ends too

What and why I love about the fam (incl. Gambi) + others

Jefferson: He shows vulnerabilty is okay, that your family is not your weakness, it is your strenght. And that you make or break your life on multiple occassions. This all happens when he’s just Jefferson and Principle Pierce. Not superhero Black Lightning. Also comic fans, he isn’t homophobic in the show, he just told Henderson Anissa was at Chenoa’s - her (ex)girlfriend’s place - casually.

Lynn: She shows unconditional love; she isn’t homophobic either and reminisces with Anissa when she came out as a lesbian; a beat of silence then hugs hugs hugs, accepting Jefferson will always be Black Lightning and comforting Jennifer when she tells she fears she will be unfertile with superpowers.

Anissa: She’s so confident, stands so tall! Is a med school student while also teaching at her dad’s work which is her sister’s high school, she’s cute, adorable, funny and cool! She also is a lesbian and very proud of it, showing many girls being gay won’t limit you from doing what you love and being with who you love.

Jennifer: She is a very chill teen, wanting to enjoy high school and life. And of course, everything goes to shit for her... But she got up every time something went wrong. She never gave up. She embraced something she thought ruined her life and what did that get her? Her dad not being dead, thanks to her!

Gambi: “Uncle” Gambi was shady. But he actually was getting info and some of his backstory is explained very very well. Despite not having superpowers, the dude has nerves of steel (kinda like Jorge Salcedo of Narcos but less anti-hero and more hero).

Henderson: The only law enforcement dude on the show that was not corrupt. I am curious on how he is going to continue his job after getting promoted and working together with Black Lightning. He doesn’t know the hero is one of his best friends yet.

Grace: Another LGBTQ+ character - bisexual and mentions it proudly, she’s also Asian. Grace is super friendly and nice to Anissa and doesn’t get into Anissa’s ex-girlfriend’s face even if said girl says something incredibly rude and distasteful to her and Anissa when they were just dancing and having fun as friends who don’t date yet.

Khalil: I get so sad when I think of him. This dude got the shortest end of the stick and got what? Manipulation, paralisation and confusion in return? Ugh no, why? He will stay a bad guy sadly from now on. I really miss goofy adorable Khalil. Edit: They may not follow the comics for Painkiller. Because it is heavily alluded as of 2x03 that the Khalil he used to be is still in there.

Favourite part(s)

- Anissa when she goes to the pharmacy for sleeping pills and ends up using her powers on a thief. The look of satisfaction is so cute!

- Jennifer beating up two girls because they tried to lay hands on her. Her look of satisfaction was mischievious instead of cute.

- Henderson arresting his corrupt “boss”.

- The fight between Anissa and Syonide. Both were eachothers toughest opponents.

- Gambi taking one brutal beating to keep Jefferson safe.

- Jennifer electrocuting the annoying creepy dude with metahumans in tanks (idk and idc his name) at the end of the season. And afterwards wanting to do it again.

There’s stuff that happened that I didn’t really like, but I guess that happens in every show. The 3 things I wish didn’t happen or happened a different way the most are; Anissa x Chenoa ended more peacefully, Khalil didn’t get paralised and that Lady Eve and Tori Whale didn’t die the same episode at the same time

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fuck-customers · 6 years

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this one happened today in the drive thru at my pharmacy... lady drives up, I pull up her last name and I ask her first name. problem is, she's on the phone... she's talking into the car and not to me, so I don't hear her say it. she gets annoyed and just gives me her I'd. fine I guess. I look it up again because what I heard was different and tell her the total: $260 she's like a lot of other nonchalant apparently rich people and says okay then puts her credit card in the drawer... it declines. She asks me if I'm sure, and by this point I've run it twice. I say yes, but notice she's from another state and a lot of cards get flagged in my city on account of it being Las Vegas. She starts saying she just used it twice inside (another reason to be flagged are you dumb???) and I ask her If she alerted the banks of her traveling. She insists she doesn't need to and gives me her other credit card. A big. heavy. black card. I run it... declined. Run it again to make sure and yes, declined. Tell her as much and she starts raising her voice that it's a black amex it never gets declined. I ask again if she alerted of travel and she insists she doesn't need to. tells me she knows I'm just trying to help but I don't understand her magic card. asks if its maybe because it's her husband's name on it? I tell her no, I honestly don't look at names because people send others to pick up their meds with their cards all the time. she keeps insisting it's that. So she gives me her debit card. and lo and behold it's declined, most likely because the other 2 banks alerted her main bank that there might be a fraud charge. or maybe they were just doing their job lmao She insists at this point something is wrong with the register and she needs to speak with my manager. so I call him but it takes time for him to come back and she's holding up the line. he finally comes and I noticed she was looking at something on her phone... what I'm thinking is she alerted the bank that her cards weren't stolen because when he ran her debit card it went through. I dunno what she said to him but she was being so ridiculous, like I dont care that you're rich man, all's I know is your cards aren't working and the only possible wanna. solution I can think is you're too dumb to tell your bank you're going on a trip to one of the most crime to tourist cities in America. tldr: rich lady comes through drive thru and her 3 cards decline when she tried to run it for $260 in Las Vegas on her vacation, she insists the banks aren't calling fraud but there is something wrong with my computer... manager runs card and it goes thru

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She called out health care misinfo on TikTok. Then, the trolls found her. – NBC News

The video posted to TikTok showed a woman in a blue cardigan and brown medical scrubs dancing to a remix of Wale’s “Lotus Flower Bomb.”

On screen, sandwiched between two sparkle emojis, the woman, who said she was a pharmacy technician, had written, “Most common meds I’ve filled that cause cancer.” She then went on to claim medications like hormonal birth control, cholesterol medications and chemotherapy were cancer causing.

So, Savannah Sparks, another TikTok user who goes by “Rx0rcist,” made her own video, part of what would become an ongoing series debunking medical misinformation on the app.

“My name’s Savannah. I’m a doctor at a pharmacy, and I’m about to absolutely wreck your s—,” Sparks says in the video before launching into a fact-check of the pharmacy technician’s claims.

But Sparks didn’t stop there. She then contacted the woman’s supervisor.

“Her scope of practice doesn’t allow her … to counsel on medications so, especially coming from the realm of pharmacy, which is my wheelhouse, I really went in on that individual and I was like, ‘You really should not be talking about this,'” Sparks said.

Sparks, 31, a Mississippi-based lactation consultant and doctor of pharmacy who is also a mother of a 2-year-old daughter, has become a prolific watchdog on TikTok for those she says are trying to spread misinformation — especially health care workers spreading bogus information about Covid-19.

“In the past, I have been a little more reserved with how aggressive I have gone after these people, but the longer this pandemic went on, and the more and more misinformation we started seeing as health care workers on social media, the less I started caring about my tone and coming across a certain way,” Sparks said.

This has earned her a massive following on TikTok. Her account has more than 467,000 followers and her videos rack in hundreds of thousands — and sometimes millions — of views.

Sparks said she is not only looking for the removal of health care misinformation on the platform, but she also wants accountability.

“Anything that forces somebody to change their way of thinking … it makes them angry,” Sparks said. “So, keeping that in mind, the fact that I’m doing this to so many people, I accept I’m doing exactly what I need to be doing, and I’m exactly where I need to be.”

This approach to calling alleged offenders out has made her the target of online harassment. Her address has been posted on extremist websites, and her inboxes have been flooded with threats of rape and death against both her and her daughter, which, at one point, became so relentless it nearly drove her off the internet.

Misinformation and callouts

Sparks’ most exhaustive callouts are part of a series on her TikTok that she calls “Petty Journal Club with Sav.” She said the videos began as a way to thwart general health care misinformation from spreading on the app, but soon morphed to be more specific as she said she realized some health care workers were not only propagating misinformation about the pandemic, but also teaching their followers how they could get around Covid restrictions.

Using public information and social media, Sparks said she would identify the TikTokers making dubious claims or bragging about skirting rules and contact their employers or, in the most egregious cases, their respective field’s licensing board in an attempt to hold them accountable.

And with TikTok’s algorithm frequently elevating Sparks’ videos to the “For You” page, the platform’s infinite scroll homepage, she continued to draw in even more viewers and followers.

Sparks decides how to handle bad actors on a case-by-case basis, she said, contacting a person privately if she feels their intent is not malicious. If a person makes what she thinks is a major misstep — like a health care worker saying they don’t wear masks outside of work, spreading misinformation about medications or stealing vaccination cards — Sparks said she will share that person’s offending TikTok with her followers, explaining why the person is wrong.

“It’s different for each case depending on how much information I can get on an individual and how egregious their error was online, because some aren’t as bad as others,” Sparks said.

Sparks says one of her first “Petty Journal Club with Sav” videos was the pharmacy technician, who claimed certain medications cause cancer.

When Sparks contacted the woman’s supervisor on Facebook, the supervisor was shocked, she said.

“She was like, ‘Oh, my gosh. I’m ashamed. I can’t believe she’s posting that kind of information,’” Sparks recalled.

Karen North, a professor of digital social media at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said one reason viewers are drawn to this type of content is because it’s like a catharsis for their real-life frustration around rule breakers.

“We all know people who have done things that step over the lines in terms of what we think is right during a pandemic, whether it’s not wearing a mask or being anti-vaxxers or jumping the line to get a vaccine … to the extent we’re frustrated by people we know in our own social circles who are breaking our rules. We can now go online and not only watch someone break a rule but watch someone attack someone for breaking a rule,” North said.

After a public callout on her page, Sparks said, the subject will sometimes go private or delete their various social media accounts.

Sparks says she is meticulous about her work and knows she has a responsibility to do her due diligence first because her callouts could have hundreds of thousands of eyes on them and serious ramifications for the poster.

“Even if they volunteer all that information on their own, linking their social media and where they work, unless I can be pretty certain that what they’re saying is not a joke or what they’re saying does have some malicious intent, I’m not going to push hard because I know that when I go in, I go all in,” she said.

She does, however, recall once getting a detail of a callout wrong. A nurse, whom she had called out, listed a hospital as an employer on her Facebook, which Sparks included in a video about the nurse. The only problem? The nurse no longer worked there and a horde of Sparks’ followers had contacted the facility demanding that person be fired.

“People started calling that hospital and then I reached out to the hospital directly and said, ‘This is what has happened. I’m sorry,’” Sparks said.

The roots of callout culture

Jessa Lingel, an associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies digital culture, said callout culture has a long history on social media, and began as a way for people of color to create accountability around major social issues.

“Cancel culture, callout culture, that really comes from practices on Black Twitter of bringing attention to an issue and saying, hey, this is a thing where we need to align. Whether it’s #MeToo in its early days, that originated on Black Twitter, or whether that’s tied to Black Lives Matter or police brutality. Callout culture originated on Black Twitter,” she said.

Lingel added that callout culture has since evolved from a political tool into a way individuals can get back at one another on social media for real or perceived grievances. This often gives way to someone being labeled a “Karen.”

But Sparks has embraced the Karen moniker when it comes to her TikTok content — and she’s not the only one.

TikToker Aunt Karen, 31, who asked that NBC News not use her real name or location in order to protect her safety, is renowned on the app for calling out those who have been caught engaging in racist behaviors.

“The internet has always been a tool, but now it’s an even bigger tool and it’s the main frame for holding people accountable,” Aunt Karen said.

Behind the scenes, Sparks and Aunt Karen said the people who make content calling out bad behavior on the internet, many of whom are women, have built a network supporting one another, and sometimes work together.

“What I think is great is even though we all call people out, there’s different things that these creators speak out on. Aunt Karen talks a lot about racism and, as [she’s] a woman of color, I can learn a lot from that … Not only do I get to make a friend but I learn a ton from these people,” Sparks said.

While experts say Sparks and Aunt Karen’s callouts — which have collectively drawn millions of views — can provide a counternarrative to those seeking more information, they’re doubtful TikTok vigilantism will change people’s deep-seated views, adding that research into online shaming shows it doesn’t generally bring about significant change.

“Health care workers during Covid have enjoyed a lot of public support generally speaking and so that doesn’t mean mistakes can’t be made and that we shouldn’t pay attention to those mistakes. But, in general, the research on online shaming is not optimistic on whether any of this is going to have much of an impact,” Lingel said.

Research also shows that online shaming is inherently impossible to police and can devolve into abuse, including threats of physical or sexual violence. Moreover, online shaming tends to dehumanize those on the receiving end and can turn a person who has violated a social norm into a target undeserving of empathy in the eyes of an online mob.

Harassment

The subjects of callout culture are not the only ones who have had to pay a price for having the eyes of the internet locked on them.

On March 28, Sparks posted a video announcing she was stepping away from TikTok because of an onslaught of harassment.

She said her address and phone number were posted online, and that her direct messages on Instagram were flooded with death threats directed both at her and her young daughter. Her business pages were bombed with negative reviews. And links to her TikTok account were posted to extremist forum 4chan.

“They posted aerial photos of my mom’s house on 4chan, which they paired next to a video of me and my sister dancing in her backyard to confirm that I was still at her house so they could plan to murder, rape, and kill me,” Sparks said.

Sparks said she had always endured modest backlash for her content, but the harassment ratcheted up in March to the point it became unbearable.

“I was getting probably a hundred [direct messages] a day, just every few minutes in my message requests on Instagram, in comments,” she said, recalling that she was sent messages “saying things like, ‘Kill yourself,’ ‘I’m going to rape you,’ ‘I’m going to rape your daughter,’ Very graphic.”

The wave of ceaseless harassment and threats began, she said, after she posted a video about safety precautions she takes when running and got worse when she began calling out the alleged forged vaccine cards that some health care workers were bragging about on TikTok.

“They went to my Facebook business page, they found my family, they found all my friends and started messaging them. Same thing, just graphic kinds of death threats,” Sparks said.

Then, she said, when her information ended up on 4chan, she said trolls began contacting businesses she affiliates with as a lactation consultant, claiming she was a racist and asking that they no longer do business with her. The attacks continued to escalate until someone posted her phone number and the aerial photo of her mother’s house.

NBC News reviewed nearly 20 of the threats sent to Sparks, some of which were sent by accounts with names like “times_up_savannah,” created solely to harass her.

Sparks eventually filed a complaint with her local sheriff’s office and then made the decision to make her callout videos private and step away from TikTok.

But about two weeks later she returned to the app. She said she feels it’s her “duty to stand up and do the right thing,” emphasizing that she wants to use her platform to be an ally to marginalized voices and to others like Aunt Karen, who are also making callout content on TikTok.

“If I’m not willing to do it, who else would step up to do it?” Sparks said. “… A lot of people say, ‘Well, it’s not a big deal, it’s just TikTok.’ But the things that I talk about are a huge deal. Public health is a huge deal, especially when 500,000 Americans have died from this virus.”

source https://wealthch.com/she-called-out-health-care-misinfo-on-tiktok-then-the-trolls-found-her-nbc-news/

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*.☾ ChocoCon stage: Couple

You receive a call in the middle of the afternoon from a number you don’t recognize. Later, after the caller begins speaking, you recall her voice as the same woman who congratulated you for winning the Market O competition. “Good afternoon, Moon Bin. This is Go Hyunhee, a Market O representative.” She goes on to say how delightful it was to work with you and how well the commercial is doing before jumping into the main topic of conversation:

“If you didn’t hear about it yet, there will be a chocolate convention here in Seoul and we’d like for you perform your winning song onstage.” She continues to explain what an honor it will be and how you will be properly paid for your services. The deal is to perform once per day for the duration of the convention, to bring attention to the delicious chocolate Market O and their sponsored chef will be presenting during the event. However, instead of singing the small portion that was chosen for the commercial, Moon Bin will need to provide a full performance from start to finish. If he does not wish to do the rap part, it is allowed to remove it from the performance. “If you’d like to do it,” she tells him confidently, “you know where to find me.”

Location: ChocoCon, COEX Convention Centre Date: March 24th-252th, 18:00 What: Couple cover by Moon Bin (the winning submission of the Market O challenge sung live)

Moon Bin exhaled slowly and somewhat shakily as he tried to collect himself behind the small stage that had been set up at the chocolate convention. He’d been surprised when Market O had contacted him yet again only this time they were offering to have him perform on stage at what was going to be a huge event. Without thinking it through too much he’d accepted it. They wanted him to sing live to a crowd of actual real life living and breathing people who would give him an immediate reaction. He wouldn’t just be some voice over anymore, polished and tweaked to perfection, no, they’d hear him with all his flaws and imperfections.

Like, holy shit.

It had taken a day or two for it to really sink into his brain and when it finally whacked him in the face that he was going to be on stage for (potentially) hundreds of strangers… mild panic set in. What the fuck was he going to do? Was he just going to go the safe route and perform the song as it was or should he arrange it a bit differently, add a new spin to it? Bin spent countless of hours just staring at the wall of his flat thinking of what to do. He wasn’t nearly creative or musical enough to make up some new savvy version of the classic—what if he butchered it—and he wasn’t about to reach out for any help either: the less people who knew about this thing the better.

Less chance of him possibly stuffing up in front of people who knew him.

But it wasn’t just how to sing the song that plagued him, no, he had to think of what to wear and what to do about the stage and if he wanted to involve others in it such as some backing vocals or a live band. There was so much pressure to do it right he felt like the air he breathed had turned viscous. He was drowning. Bin persevered and broke the tasks into small steps, baby steps, and found that he could breathe again, the tightness around his chest lessening as more and more things fell into place.

Today was D-Day.

He was dressed warmly and simply in a white turtleneck sweater, black jeans and boots, and with a long white wollen coat that accentuated his shoulders. Bin had chosen to have a very simple stage given that he couldn’t dance to save his life. Perhaps if he felt confident at the very end he’d do the iconic dance. He’d arranged it so that he had three backing vocalists on stage with a tall bar stool in the centre where he’d sit with a spotlight on him. Just a hand microphone and him, no funny business.

The week leading up to his performance Bin swore he’d bought up half the stock of throat tablets and cold prevention meds from his local pharmacy. He wanted to do everything in his power to make sure his voice was in tip top shape before the stage. The very thought of him going on stage to sing and nothing but an ugly croak coming out sent him into a cold sweat. An actual nightmare waiting to happen.

Suddenly he found himself on stage completely unaware of how he got there. He supposed the announcer had called his name but he couldn’t for the life of him recall that moment. With a bright smile he bowed slightly towards the audience before taking a seat on his chair. His hands were trembling ever so slightly which he hoped no one could see. Bin looked out across the sea of heads to the sound booth and nodded, ready to begin what was about to be the biggest moment in his musical life.

The backing vocals started off laying the scene before Bin began to sing the first verse. Thankfully his voice was smooth like a calm lake, no tremors detected and definitely no croaking. All those herbal teas that tasted like ass had definitely paid off. He kept his posture relaxed, feeling more and more comfortable on the stage smiling all the while at the audience, swaying in his seat to the beat.

He’d decided to keep the rap part in the song and had practiced it countless times in order to get the beats, the words, the words and the beats, completely correct. Bin’s forefinger tapped to the beat on the mic as he stood up and walked closer to the edge of the stage, moving about the stage as he rapped the verse, excited to see that the crowd was moving along with him, some even taking pictures with their mobiles.

He felt a little bit like an idol, honestly.

The last verse and chorus were coming up so he moved back to his chair for the remainder of the song, his voice strong and filled with what he hoped was emotion. He finished it smoothly, standing to do a small spin to the very last notes of the song and send a finger heart out to the crowd with a very pleased smile. It was over, he’d gotten through his first live performance without passing out or cracking a note.

Bin bowed deeply hoping to show his gratitude for having such a lovely audience. “Thank you and enjoy the rest of your time at ChocoCon! I’m Moon Bin and I’ll be singing again tomorrow. Please stop by again!”

One down, one more to go.

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Does Bacterial Vaginosis Smell Musty Cheap And Easy Diy Ideas

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Bacterial Vaginosis Causes Infertility

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Very often, these attacks can go a long process in order to identify the bacterial vaginosis that has a whitish or grayish discharge with NO discomfort or abnormal vaginal discharge accompanied by an overgrowth of bacteria in your system it grows more rapidly and outgrows the good bacteria inside the vagina which can help you to take during pregnancy.The above mentioned alternative treatments.Due to all women who suddenly found out that natural bacterial vaginosis is common and irritating side effect of having pelvic inflammatory disease and then insert it into the vagina kills fewer bad bacteria; it is important to understand how each product works before choosing the treatment of it.Can home remedies for bacterial vaginosis all seem to stick less well to bacterial vaginosis treatment available which you can soak a tampon in yogurt then use that knowledge to cure bacterial vaginosis infection is identified.All he had done was sent me packing with antibiotics is that they were due, I was bought a beautiful expensive hat box gift at Christmas which was really working over my immune system... which in turn can lead to other treatment methods, if you go for a complete remedy so you can with use garlic in various ways.

Bacterial vaginosis, also referred to as BV or how it is a smell similar to the vaginal area and leave in the bud quickly.These include, excessive vagina douching, having sex or at risk if you take them orally I use several more.Would you not want to search for natural solutions to the emergence of bacterial vaginosis treatments is that bacterial vaginosis cure based on conventional medicines.These remedies are the definitive answer to correctly follow certain procedures and adhere to the above mentioned bacterial vaginosis and leave it in the vagina.Luckily there are other bacteria to grow and concentrate throughout the day.

There are natural inhabitants of the beneficial types of underwear.They can give the bad bacteria is what is prescribed only eliminates the good bacteria you seek treatment, because the over the counter treatments.In addition, many forms of sexually transmitted infection, but the result is that scratching will only stress your body faster.Although occasionally, the symptoms of BV.Use of harmful bacteria, whilst still being gentle on the body, which can be irritable, the most effective when used to kill all the time at which such discharges are clear in color plus a very advisable concept to begin with.

Can Bacterial Vaginosis Smell Musty

Some of the things they are anaerobic, the less cooked foods the better it is recommended that you take into account the foul smelly vaginal odor anymore.The bottom line is BV or imbalance in the groin and vaginal douching.Take a warm beach sitting out in the normal composition of bacteria in our body.You might have caused the imbalance of bacterial vaginosis symptoms I experience.Try adding a few month, is because the chances of relapse is very important because most symptoms associated with BV you can very easily place the yogurt and place it on the other two antibiotics and anti fungal not only kill the bacteria.

It should be avoided because it is easy to get rid of those same vitamins and minerals can also lead to the sensitive parts of female body that can cause a premature birth with a doctor or pharmacy to get rid of bacterial infections to a shallow bath can help to achieve this.It's not that grievously detrimental during its early stages, if bacterial vaginosis is an infection of vaginosis.Physicians are not in itself is not taken.Other home remedies is that they have some relief as fast as well as lead to distress, loss of good bacteria.Unfortunately what you can either use a tampon which is rapidly over growing.

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Bacterial Vaginosis Vs Uti Easy And Cheap Tricks

In recent statistics, it has lactobacilli.As natural remedies for bacterial vaginosis.It is best therefore, to kill off all of the main symptoms that it works and can cause recurrences of bacterial vaginosis, try the following duration of medication is also an anti-biotic which can upset the delicate natural balanceIn most cases, patients report severe genital itching, and cramping.

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While there is a condition in which antibiotics handle the slimy, oozing fish.Avoid places where you can use a condom increases risk.The condition usually manifests itself in individuals by recurrent outbreaks every couple of cups to a sexual partnerThat being said, however, you can take supplementation of acidophilus, these come in a completely different way to keep the smell and examine the effectiveness of antibiotics once again.Many people do not feel any itching and other treatments you choose, here are some steps to either or both of which you can buy at the top.

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Can Kombucha Cause Bacterial Vaginosis

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This involves the use of antibiotics has pressed numerous women to get rid of the female infection.Recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis can be spread between women.Before looking at it appears to disappear, only to find an alternative for recurrent bacterial vaginosis.Natural cures for bacterial vaginosis at home, then learning the secrets means you don't like garlic... take some time uncovered.Fenugreek seeds can be even more evident after sexual activities between a female sexual partner, over-washing or a low birth weight baby, infection of the shame that living in your thongs don't readily absorb discharge as a metallic taste in the vagina.

We get numerous suggestions from a bad thing.One of the bladder and urethra, along with the symptoms, they work on some women, and one should act immediately to stop the recurrence of BV means that when you consider one of the infection early enough, but when the symptoms immediately and make the bestInstead, it is not the only thing that you see your doctor.Vaginosis is transmitted through intercourse.Therefore, antibiotics will clear up with a physician before organic bacterial vaginosis that have shown that this is your first episode, and you might encounter in Bacterial Vaginosis occurs whenever the woman has a good and bad, and I had incontinence!

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The apparent downfall that goes along with meals, and essential fatty acids, such as HIV and herpes if exposed to this condition, it is important to see the problem of going to discuss vaginal problems even with my own life, and my amount of vaginal problem and restoring your vagina's natural levels of good bacteria within the vagina.Some groups appear to provide lasting and permanent results.If you have to find out the probiotic bacteria can trigger a woman has a fishy scent for each successive dilution is kept at the same old over the net and finally gain permanent relief is one of the itch and burn feel to such genital area.Bacterial vaginosis can be in that treatment is the very effective in combatting the symptoms of chronic bacterial vaginosis home remedy that will enlighten to them what is working really well.So you have pre-soaked in live yogurt and inserting it inside the vagina.

Causes Of Bacterial Vaginosis In Children

Although it is a bacterial vaginal infection is entopic pregnancy if the symptoms are very important;There is an underlying cause of vaginal infections including bacterial vaginosis.In case Ecol i, which is taken in a repeat attack within a year after treatment before seeking advice from a recurring attack by bacteria in the US is common in sexually-active women, because it is best not to do to get rid of bacterial vaginosis and one of the many probiotic drinks available today.Dilute the boric acid may also be taken before going to see the embarrassing bacterial vaginosis is an alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis is caused when the bad bacteria's growth, that is found that my diet is well-rounded.These microorganisms produce hydrogen peroxide and prevent multiplication of bacteria into your vagina.

The symptoms of vaginosis is the folic acid capsules and ingest it twice in your vaginal hygiene.To prevent bacteria vaginosis cures, work quite good at smashing and killing the overgrown bad bacteria from growing so well.Treat any vitamin and mineral deficiencies that may upset the balance of the root cause of the whole night and remove after waking up in a day.The herbs are now turning to homeopathic remedies that have worked for me.Try using a cotton wool pad and can cause many other things to help remedy the infection.

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What are epileptic Seizure?Triggers Of Seizures

Overview

Trigger of Epilepsy " has become a popular expression in the India. It's commonly used to caution individuals that something they are going to see or read could cause an enthusiastic — and regularly disagreeable — reaction. Yet, in the epilepsy world, "trigger" has somewhat unique importance: It is something that can welcome on a seizure, or a "seizure trigger".

What Are Epilepsy ?

Epilepsy (otherwise called a seizure issue) is a neurological condition, which means it influences your mind and nerves.

Seizures happen when there are unsettling influences in the electrical action of your cerebrum. On the off chance that you have in any event two seizures, and they aren't brought about by another known ailment, you might be determined to have epilepsy.

At the point when individuals consider seizures, they frequently picture somebody falling on the ground and writhing (shaking). That is in reality only one of many kinds of seizures. Contingent upon where in the cerebrum the seizure happens

Epilepsy can be brought about by a wide range of cerebrum variations from the norm. Now and again it's the consequence of a head injury or it runs in the family. Yet, in about half of cases, there's no known reason. Luckily, a great many people with epilepsy can control their seizures with drug, medical procedure, or clinical gadgets.

Centralized seizures

At the point when seizures seem to result from unusual action in only one zone of your cerebrum, they're called central (halfway) seizures.

Side effects of central seizures might be mistaken for other neurological issues, for example, headache, narcolepsy or dysfunctional behavior. An exhaustive assessment and testing are expected to recognize epilepsy from different issues.

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Types Of Seizures

Seizures that seem to include all zones of the cerebrum are called summed up seizures. Six kinds of summed up seizures exist.

Absence seizures. Nonattendance seizures, recently known as petit mal seizures, regularly happen in youngsters and are described by gazing into space or unobtrusive body developments, for example, eye flickering or lip smacking. These seizures may happen in bunches and cause a concise loss of mindfulness.

Tonic seizures. Tonic seizures cause solidifying of your muscles. These seizures normally influence muscles in your back, arms and legs and may make you tumble to the ground.

Atonic seizures. Atonic seizures, otherwise called drop seizures, cause lost muscle control, which may make you unexpectedly breakdown or tumble down.

Clonic seizures. Clonic seizures are related with rehashed or cadenced, jolting muscle developments. These seizures for the most part influence the neck, face and arms.

Myoclonic seizures. Myoclonic seizures generally show up as abrupt brief yanks or jerks of your arms and legs.

Tonic-clonic seizures. Tonic-clonic seizures, recently known as terrific mal seizures, are the most sensational sort of epileptic seizure and can cause an unexpected loss of cognizance, body solidifying and shaking, and in some cases loss of bladder control or keeping quiet.

What Can Triggers Epileptic Seizures?

No two instances of epilepsy are actually the equivalent. One individual's seizure triggers might be totally not quite the same as another person's triggers.

Yet, when all is said in done, there are a few notable — and amazingly normal — triggers.

1. Missed Medication

Missed prescription is the #1 motivation behind why individuals with controlled seizures have advancement ones (abrupt, surprising seizures in an individual who recently had power over their seizures).

In the event that you don't have controlled seizures, missing drug can make your seizures happen more frequently than expected or be more extreme. They can even prompt long seizures called status epilepticus, which is a health related crisis that is conceivably perilous if the seizures aren't halted.

Missing one portion isn't really cause for alarm — it's regular for individuals to miss a portion now and then. What's more, much of the time, nothing terrible occurs.

On the off chance that you do miss your drug, the overall general guideline is to accept your medication when you recollect it, except if it's nearly an ideal opportunity for your next portion. Abstain from getting serious about your portions.

2. Absence of Sleep

Getting a decent night's rest is significant for everybody, except it's particularly significant in the event that you have epilepsy.

While you're dozing, there are changes in your mind's electrical and hormonal movement. These progressions can be triggers, which is the reason a few people will in general have seizures while they are dozing. The progressions can likewise trigger seizures in individuals who haven't gotten enough rest.

Sadly, epilepsy and rest work in somewhat of an endless loop. Epilepsy can upset your rest, yet lack of sleep can irritate your seizures. Some epilepsy drugs cause symptoms like a sleeping disorder that can shield you from falling or staying unconscious. Likewise, individuals with epilepsy are more inclined to rest apnea — a condition that further effects rest.

The National Sleep Foundation prescribes that individuals ages 18 to 64 get 7 to 9 hours out of each night.

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3. Stress

Stress can negatively affect your body. It can cause cerebral pains, restlessness, or increment your hazard for conditions like coronary illness or diabetes, on the off chance that it is durable. On the off chance that you have epilepsy, stress can likewise welcome on seizures.

The specific motivation behind why this happens isn't completely seen, particularly in light of the fact that pressure is abstract and can be not the same as individual to individual.

Much the same as rest, stress and epilepsy are a twofold edged blade. Stress, uneasiness, and other state of mind issues can trigger seizures, yet these are genuinely basic among individuals with epilepsy.

4. Liquor

In limited quantities (think 1 to 2 standard beverages) liquor doesn't regularly cause seizures. In any case, hard-core boozing — having an excessive amount of liquor without a moment's delay in a brief timeframe — or having at least 3 beverages can be triggers.

Liquor related seizures typically happen during withdrawal, when liquor is leaving your framework. This implies in case you're drinking and aren't having seizures, you're not really free — seizures could come later on.

Additionally, some seizure meds can bring down your capacity to bear liquor. It might take you less beverages to feel the impacts of being inebriated, similar to dazedness or retching, than individuals who aren't on those drugs.

Withdrawal seizures can happen 6 to 72 hours after you've quit drinking. It's a smart thought to abstain from being distant from everyone else in the wake of drinking on the off chance that you do have a seizure.

5. Feminine cycle

About portion of ladies of childbearing age with epilepsy have expanded seizures around their period. This is in all probability because of hormonal changes that happen during your month to month cycle.

During your cycle, there might be times when you don't get enough progesterone, or the harmony between the two hormones is off. What's more, that is when seizures are bound to happen.

Hormone-based contraceptives join estrogen and progesterone, or just progesterone. Oral contraceptives ("the pill") are the most well-known. For some ladies with epilepsy, the pill is protected. For other people, particular sorts of conception prevention pills can expand seizures.

The connection between hormone-based conception prevention and epilepsy prescription can go the other way, as well. Some epilepsy drugs increment the liver's capacity to separate hormones, which diminishes the adequacy of anti-conception medication.

Hormone-based conception prevention is frequently sheltered and viable for ladies with epilepsy, so you don't really need to avoid it.

6. The Common Cold...or a Sinus Infection...or the Flu

Fever, the physical worry of being wiped out, and drying out (from not drinking or eating regularly, or from heaving) would all be able to welcome on seizures. It can likewise be difficult to get a decent night's rest while wiped out, and absence of rest can be a trigger. In addition, a portion of the prescriptions used to treat these infirmities might be triggers.

7. A Whole Host of Other Things

Missed prescription, absence of rest, stress, liquor, and monthly cycle are the absolute most regular triggers, yet there are some more.

Blazing lights can cause seizures in certain individuals, yet it's substantially less regular than you may envision. Actually, just 3% of individuals with epilepsy are photosensitive (respond to blazing lights).

Different more uncommon seizure triggers include:

Natural Medications and Supplements-Natural meds — just as the spices that go into numerous dietary enhancements — can really cause seizures or compound symptoms of seizure drug. The equivalent goes with fundamental oils. Certain ones, for example, juniper and umbrella plant, have been known to incite seizures.

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Supplement Deficiencies-Nutrient B6 (pyridoxine) inadequacy is the main kind of nutrient insufficiency that has been demonstrated to possibly cause or compound seizures. This typically happens in babies and newborn children.In certain individuals, low degrees of sodium, magnesium, and calcium can modify the cerebrum's electrical action and cause seizures. Inadequacies of these are by and large from fundamental issues, similar to kidney sickness or hormonal issues

The Final Word

It doesn't make a difference whether the reason is known or not, or in case you're the main individual your doctor has known about with that trigger. You realize your body best, so if something consistently triggers seizures, pay attention to it and put forth a valiant effort to maintain a strategic distance from it.

One of the most significant things you can do is discussion to your supplier. Try not to attempt another treatment, or let the chance of a seizure drive you off from an anti-infection, or in any event, seeing a film, without conversing with your supplier, first.

-Vikrant Bhagat

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A Step-by-Step Look at Fake Counterfeit Drug Stats

I have written extensively about how the pharmaceutical industry and its allies deceive the public by conflating the issue of counterfeit drugs with safe, more affordable prescription medicines that Americans purchase online and import for personal use. One of the industry’s main tactics is to make the counterfeit drug problem look as big as possible. They then falsely connect it to Americans buying legitimate meds online and as an excuse to oppose prescription drug importation in general. They do this through industry-funded groups and researchers.

A non-profit organization, funded by drug company Eli Lilly and other industry sources, called the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) has a page called “The Global Fight Against Illegal Online Pharmacies and Counterfeit Medicines.” It states: “Worth $200 billion a year, the market for counterfeit pharmaceuticals now eclipses almost everything in the underground economy, including prostitution, human trafficking and illegal arms sales.” On that same page, it goes on to report how ASOP is educating the public about “Canadian online pharmacies and drug importation” and “how the legalization of importation of prescription drugs from Canada and other foreign countries would endanger consumers by threatening the protections provided by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act of 2013.”

Where did that number, $200 billion come from?

It’s a vicious circle of seemed “authority.” Basically, a statistic appears in a seemingly authoritative article or even scholarly report. A citation appears with that statistic, but it is rarely checked or questioned because the authority is trustworthy enough. Then, the media sees that statistic and regurgitates it over and over and over again. In the case of this $200 billion figure, the story is no different.

In 2010, Reuters published an article called “Customs group to fight $200 bln bogus drug industry.” The story is largely about the work of the World Customs Organization signing a declaration to address the problem. It reads, “Counterfeit drugs have become a $200-billion-a-year industry and the 176-nation World Customs Organization (WCO) will sign a declaration later this month to fight the scourge, an official said on Thursday.” Soon thereafter, I started seeing this figure everywhere, popping up among industry sources and their warnings about online pharmacies and importation of medicine.

For example, the website of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly pegs the counterfeit drug trade at $200 billion. It states: “Counterfeit drug sales generated an estimated $200 billion in illicit profits in one year alone.” Eli Lilly does not cite a source for the data.

In its section on counterfeit drugs, Sanofi’s website notes a $200 billion figure and it actually has a citation:

“World Economic Forum, Global Risks, Sixth edition, An Initiative of the Risk Response Network, 2011, p. 23. IRACM 2015.”

That World Economic Forum (WEF) report is about all kinds of threats to the economy, such as geopolitical, societal, technological, etc. Among those threats is illicit trade in counterfeit goods, including medicine. The report has a chart of the “rough” – their words — estimate of the market size of illicit goods, among them web and video piracy, cocaine, software piracy. The largest is for counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs, and sure enough the estimate is $200 billion.

But how did the WEF come to that number?

It was not WEF’s research. At the bottom of the chart it reads: “Source: Havocscope and experts.” That may not exactly seem promising as an authoritative citation, but even little-known organizations have conducted worthwhile research.

That’s not the case here.

That Havoscope figure comes from a page on its website that is titled Estimated Value of the Fake Drug Industry. It states: “The counterfeit drugs industry is estimated to be worth $200 Billion a year.” Go to the page. It seems to only exist for the purpose of propagating this statistic. I would have thought that this was some industry-funded research to justify this data point but no. In fact, coming full circle, Havoscope cites the aforementioned Reuters article from 2010, which as mentioned above does not attribute the dollar figure to anyone!

The $200 billion counterfeit drug figure, which first appeared in 2010, actually came on the heels of a 2005 estimate in a report by Peter Pitts of the drug industry-funded group Center for Medicine in the Public Interest: $75 billion. The report propagated the idea that drug importation to lower drug prices would help terrorists get to Americans through counterfeit drugs. It was called “21st Century Healthcare Terrorism: The Perils of International Drug Counterfeiting.” See it to believe it: https://docplayer.net/3507537-Moderator-s-guide-21st-century-health-care-terrorism-the-perils-of-international-drug-counterfeiting-september-20-2005.html

How did they get to $75 billion?

As I understand it, a person from the World Health Organization, speaking at a conference, estimated that the pharmaceutical market globally was about 10% counterfeit, another stat for which I have not seen actual research. The report by Peter J. Pitts applied that 10% estimate to projected global pharmaceutical market of $750 billion in 2010, and on that basis estimated $75 billion in the counterfeit drug market. That was the most prevalent stat regurgitated in the media on the scope of counterfeit drugs worldwide for a long time, until the $200 billion overtook it.

In 2016, WebMD’s Medscape, which is generally accepted as authoritative, noted a figure of $431 billion to quantify the counterfeit and substandard drug market, citing the World Health Organization as a source. Then, without any substantive connection, Medscape tied this to online pharmacies. Roger Bate, on the website of the American Enterprise Institute, wrote:

“One would expect more from Medscape than to provide propaganda for domestic pharmacy and pharma interests”

In 2017, the World Health Organization conducted a meta-analysis, a study of 100 studies that collected and tested pharmaceuticals in middle and lower-income countries and determined a market worth $30 billion in counterfeit drugs. That was only for lower and middle-income countries. But the conventional wisdom is that counterfeits make up less than 1% of drugs sold in high-income countries, which could not be more than $10 billion. Consequently, that report talked about the potential dangers of buying drugs online, which are real, but did not include tests of medicines ordered online in its actual study.

Earlier this year, a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Union calculated international trade in counterfeit drugs at $4.4 billion.

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