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No. Read the article -- in the example used, the alternative is weeks on a ventilator. Which we know works. Until these drugs are known to be efficacious wit
by earl 16y ago
No. Read the article -- in the example used, the alternative is weeks on a ventilator. Which we know works. Until these drugs are known to be efficacious with tolerable side effects, they are still a second best treatment.
- pyre 16y agoWhat if you are too far away from a facility that can provide that for you? Having a syringe of anti-venom with you can be the difference between life and death.
- evgen 16y agoThere is no facility you will encounter that has the anti-venom but does not have a ventilator. This is not like an epi-pen or some other OTC med that a backpacker will carry with them, it is a hospital-dispensed, fucking expensive dose of medicine (e.g. rattlesnake anti-venom is around $4K/bottle.) But why let reality get in the way of a good rant I guess...
- pyre 16y agoHow could you classify my comment as a rant? I realize that 'tone' doesn't really translate well through text and you might read my comment as an attack (which it wasn't), but how can a couple of sentences be a 'rant?' I would think that a rant would have to be at least a few sentences or more (or some sort of absolute character/word limit in the case of large run-on sentences). If you felt it was made in anger or hate, I would think it would classify as a retort or something similar.