yeah, I’m reading more about it now and it looks like death is fairly preventable
northern AZ is pretty chuddified, so I’m wondering how much of a mindset like “I’m not going to no DEI doctor who will give me woke vaccines ” was a factor here
Northern AZ is also very rural outside of Flagstaff (which is one of the blue cities), and Coconino County contains parts of the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Hualapai, and Kaibab-Pauite reservations. There is a lot of poverty and limited access to healthcare for a lot of these communities.
I mean with healthcare not existing, you literally have to decide if you want to risk your life or your rent which is your life with extra steps in this hell country.
Do you mean that you suspect his case of plague started as pneumonia? Because that’s possible. Or do you mean that plague generally starts as pneumonia? Because that’s wrong. If the disease hits your lungs you get pneumonic plague, if it hits your lymph nodes you get bubonic plague and if it starts growing in the blood you get septicemic plague. You can have overlaps and you can get only one of them.
Avoiding the doctor is pretty much the reality for most Americans. A simple checkup with insurance can still cost hundreds of dollars, as I’m sure you know
My suspicion is he avoided the doctor for long enough that his health declined past the point where antibiotics would fix it.
yeah, I’m reading more about it now and it looks like death is fairly preventable
northern AZ is pretty chuddified, so I’m wondering how much of a mindset like “I’m not going to no DEI doctor who will give me woke vaccines
” was a factor here
Northern AZ is also very rural outside of Flagstaff (which is one of the blue cities), and Coconino County contains parts of the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, Hualapai, and Kaibab-Pauite reservations. There is a lot of poverty and limited access to healthcare for a lot of these communities.
With plague being a couple days late to visit the doctor is enough to be completely fucked.
Makes sense. Guy gets a “bad flu” because plague starts as pneumonia, tries to tough it out, and then craters.
Um…hmmm…I actually also have a tendency to try and tough it out; Im thinking maybe I should be more careful about that.
I mean with healthcare not existing, you literally have to decide if you want to risk your life or your rent which is your life with extra steps in this hell country.
Many such cases
Do you mean that you suspect his case of plague started as pneumonia? Because that’s possible. Or do you mean that plague generally starts as pneumonia? Because that’s wrong. If the disease hits your lungs you get pneumonic plague, if it hits your lymph nodes you get bubonic plague and if it starts growing in the blood you get septicemic plague. You can have overlaps and you can get only one of them.
The article says this was pneumonic plague.
Avoiding the doctor is pretty much the reality for most Americans. A simple checkup with insurance can still cost hundreds of dollars, as I’m sure you know