Pestilence2016
Introduction/Definition/etc
Not the Black Plague, but close to it, for some of us...
Body
TransitPredators
After many years of trying to go it on my own, by bicycling and moto, plus very occasional bus and rail, went in for a required ID, called Reduced Fare, which I think used to just be called Disabled, Senior and/or MetroAccess paratransit programs/departments/fiefdoms, somehow different with a photo ID, now that paper farecards and transfers are history... Why seniors and others don't need a photo on the card, I'm not sure, those populations may be just as likely to have a health/safety based problem on the public transit system and need assistance/more security/monitoring/tracking...
You could just show a MediCare ID and a photo ID, like a license/government issued ID, but that gives away your SSN, which people say don't share, keep private, even licenses don't use SSN anymore, decades later...
Also, using cash/change plus showing multiple IDs is difficult as boarding a bus, and to get transfers...
Someone, a senior said that all I needed to do was go to the local transit/commuter store (and later Ballston was bad/ a problem) but I disagreed, saying I would need to go to MetroHQ, but he insisted despite my better knowledge that it was just a local thing... For seniors, those over 65, you can pass for it, by obvious signs of aging, but under 65 they want proof...
Turns out going to a local transit commuter store, by rental bike, the behind the glass woman printed out the application, said it required a medical visit with a doctor to do the paperwork, similar to the MetroAccess process of years past, but reading it (she didn't think people like me could read) and the fine print was with a MediCare card and Under 65, you needed a photo ID and to go downtown. I can get that done today? Yes, so I asked for a TripTik, an itinerary they call it, and it has some new to me bus routes, and costs, times, etc but some stops are not the best with an accessibility camera, so I got off the ART bus early, walked about a block, payed one rail stop more, and missed the Pentagon photo policy problems, finding other problems along the way, like disabled/ homelesss veterans where I got out at the mall, panhandling or similar, but they were respectful, maybe thinking the camera was on, the bike helmet meant I was law enforcement, and/or liked my snarky comment about having to join back up, they thought for medical bills/insurance/treatment ....
A short walk from yellow line Chinatown, towards blue and orange line Federal Triangle, iirc, and MetroHQ security was tight, with a metal detector, x-ray machine at the almost servants separate entrance on the main floor, (separate but equal like? see Trash or Human? on SpeechLess ), and I forgot something else I normally wear, like court ( JuryDayLabourors2016 ), my watch... Maybe like a superhero, could wear outer clothing, and strip down to shorts, biker/ hero outfit, (think Eminem?), but this day, a low laundry day wearing female's scrubs from West Virginia, outfit/ costume iirc, all I had left, before doing laundry again, thinking it was just a short trip to the local commuter store...
While trying to figure out the entrance and security procedures, a big black man approached me, startling and asked if I knew him, said he worked with me or similar, maybe the one who ran over my feet? and/or a former local maintenance man, etc, and said he would rather forget, and disappeared, not saying who he was, it felt bad, like an attack, but right near security, and other problems, I tried to move on, expecting further problems, as a bureaucracy, and a transit one, at that...
Two cheerful young things, both African American females, while just about everyone else was black, perkily asking what I needed or similar, asked for photo and Medicare ID, took it back, noted my concern with someone walking away with my ID, I will get it back, and fill out this clipboarded form, then had to have street address, the best I could do, I can get there from that, and a set of chairs, with a window, like spotted see through graphics on a bus or train (marketing calls it wrapping) blocking the see both ways thru nature, like a police line up, one way mirror, but a design not see yourself in it...
She said 45 minutes, and I asked to use the bathroom, it had been a long trip, so that meant a cattle call of anyone else wanting / needing an escort into the back, turns out lobby area with water fountain, and elevators, etc... Someone, likely front line staff, said I was famous, but not in a way I would want to be... Maybe from the street paper, kids have to read me in school, and/ or joked about for a taxi running over my feet. Gassing by paid staff?
A questionable/stop and friskable? at least in neighborhoods I've lived, hoodie neat dreadlock type rasta young guy just went thru the gate rope tape/ movie partition waiting line, and back in back, no one stopped, nor questioned, and wondered what that was about, but not my facility/problem... Maybe worked there, and/or had to go back, and forth for someone? Like a driver? Maybe the front desk girls like him, idk...
A white guy, possibly clinical and/or managerial staff, fielded some questions and hung around for a while, with the front desk females... Maybe he was observing to see if I would be a problem on the fixed route transit system...?
Windowed testing/ interview rooms in the back similar to a medical office, without much diagnostic equipment, and the usual supplies, iirc..
Waiting, listening to music I usually carry around to calm, and pass the time, and/or FM radio, if near the window, so I could have changed seats around a few times, as it cleared out and better seats became available, people watching the disabled somewhat, others arrived earlier, likely late AM rush, going past lunch time, by then, and maybe their first order of business during the day, paying higher fares, but maybe faster, more frequent routes, but also more traffic, iirc... Remembering MetroAccess has a two hour delivery window, so get there early, is probably normal for most. Wheelchairs and other things for mobility and transferring testing, iirc... Some newish plain manual wheelchairs even parked in bike lockup looped areas, on the outside...
I was near the last one out of the reduced fare seating section, as a talkative / loudish hippie like white woman with a backpack showed up and she could do no right with staff, it seemed, the black man coming in around that same time, had a problem only Monkey County could deal with, and no he was not with her.... I gave her the an extra seat in between, to have some more personal space, and tried waiting more, without interacting much...
Called up, eventually, and got a photo taken, three computer screens pointed towards the staff lady, nothing pointed back towards us, for seeing what we looked like and approving it before being printed, like a drivers license photo, amazingly bad, as typically, we are to be presented at our worst, like mug shots, see the criminals/ bad people, they don't even look right and I didn't even know I had to have a photo taken, so hadn't prepared at all, helmet head, receding hairline, balding on top (i blame a Velcroed in cushioned strip on the bike helmet, but most don't believe it), and bad body image to boot... The lady had a little attitude, but dealing with disabled and poor all day had probably taken it's toll...
Not that different from most government customer service jobs (think postal workers?), some pick fights and mess with customers for sadistic fun, she didn't, much, but didn't find me in the system, maybe I timed out and/or records retention? Not a replacement card, I had done Bike on Rail training there, decade(s) past when that was required to bring a bike on board... When I originally did it, now more than five years ago, MetroAccess testing was in P.G. County, Maryland somewhere, iirc, maybe near the Call Center? And it took an application and they drove you there, on an appointment ride, I guess evaluating and learning the process along the way... The radios were pulled out of the vans, and maybe little old ladies don't like NWA blaring, IDK. Diamond Transit had been removed and MV was brought in as a new probably lowest bid contractor...
Buying some fare on the new reduced fare photo smartcard required another stop, luckily just outside, a young woman from inside nearly walking into me, probably intentionally, but the window closed at 3 pm, taking my bank card and swiping it, in a darkened teller like window, pointed easterly, maybe AM sunrise is bad, the window pass thru under, worried again about identity theft by staff, this time a bank card, plus new Reduced Farecard... I think she/he/it said it wasn't working, but no broken sign on it, nor removed... Quick enough and little money left to put on it, hence needing Reduced Fare, in the first place, the extra trip to get it, mostly done with piggy bank coins...
Old Bike Locker Key Return
Since I was there during office hours, most of my trips into DC are on the weekend, by bicycle, and/or after office hours, so combining errands and try turning in a bike locker key, had to go in the main entrance, to that main info/ security kiosk, told a number/extension and I dialed it on the lobby phone, and someone said she would be up. During that I was attacked again, likely some issue with the guy from before, and/or other problems, stalker like, and some security focus, threatened to take my new ID, (forms say any Metro employee can card you like Immigration PAPERS!), and they likely sprayed/vaped me, new shift transit police coming on possible, and some thing happened, but behind me, and to me, at the same time... Turned the bike locker key in, got a post-it note receipt, and told her of the feet being run over by a MetroAccess sent taxi, and bike on metroaccess multimodal as part of an informal settlement, then they stranded me less than a week after hit by a car (TBoned in a cross walk) in Capital Hill problems and mentioned lawyer(s) after the harassing email from staff, about trying to get the locker back while still hurting from the run over my feet by a MetroAccess sent taxi injury, about a week before a 9/11 anniversary, the call center laughing about my feet run over, when I had to call about cancelling the next day's same taxi company scheduled ride, and many more stonewalling denials from staff, you have to prove that, it's been too long, he's faking it, what's he trying to get, blame the victim essentially and other problems, maybe Dr. GridLock, StreetSense vendor(s) and others nearby, likely old MetroAccess, taxi and other drivers/haters, and others... Some thought I owed them, and had just used the bank card, ID problems as a similar person's name, who is African American has a lot of crimes in D.C. according to searching the court records some time ago...
Also, most attacking and arguing people wanted to know where I lived, like follow me home and take my stuff, and/or place... Welcome to D.C. style...
Returning
And stranded again by rental bike on the way back, talking to a bike repair guy maintaining them, about hauling a hand cart / trailer for say food with the rentals (against the rental agreements?), he saw a seatpost attachment for a hand truck, and I checked out a bike some guy returned after I asked and he said it worked O.K., the seat about the height I needed, and I had lost some rental time, plus slow after 3 P.M. rush hour traffic out, made it up a big hill near the end, and was going to check out another one, but it failed again, probably trying again and again as much as 10 times, just to check another one out, still the bike share accounting problem, likely? We got a mass mailing email that said Account Cancelled or similar, then Never Mind relabelling only... Still having problems, stranded again, a Metro Special and what I predicted at MetroHQ, what are you going to do strand me again, with the bike rental messenger bag?...
Bus Stop
Older guy with a seated walker, others around, big black bus driver almost ran over a disabled white guy in the crosswalk, likely after the light, running for the bus, and told to go to the bus stop instead, an angry tone then wanted to talk with me, like I saw it, was a witness or something, and other problems, Kill Whitey I'd already experienced a few times that day, and maybe the reverse racism, even in Virginia, is getting a little thick...
Getting out of the way of the on bus seated walker, I never heard/ saw the guy get up, busy with the driver almost killing a guy, and finally not so crowded that I could sit down, motioning/gesturing/pantomime? for permission to sit down next to the young lady, seated forward, instead of turned sideways, maybe getting sea/motion/car/bus sick, with an emotional support dog, pocket dog there, and I'm smelly/ full day out, and in the mild heat, so not so fresh, missed clowning for the kids in the row behind, on the way back, bad biker/ Sad /Tired / Stressed Clown...
HealthFair
A local community center had a Health Fair, not nearly as big as NBC4 back in the day where we had a WABA volunteer and staff run Bike Rodeo, in the Convention Center, but a local one, and the first time they ran it, there, and seemed ever...
A food distribution employment bossy type person ordered me to go to it, and tried the same stuff again, tried eliminating me, from food, about $1500/ year worth of food at $30/ week, minus some weeks they don't have it because of holidays... Why they think it is legal, just because the county/ state/ government/ abusive that signing documents you can't see, informed consent blatantly missing, not to mention bad faith, one sided agreements, and they don't give you a copy of is legal, HIPAA, etc... Attacked again at the end of that renew requirement office visit, just another thing to beat up the poor unworking and different with, I guess... Muslims and staff only around, no safety, for old white disabled guys, etc afaict... Not that race, religion and other stuff should matter much, but the way it is being done, seems like genocide of old disabled and minority whites...
Housing, discrimination from Richmond was there. Upstairs where the governor's press conference was, I was too busy to stay, seemed like basic stuff...
VHDA had a table/booth, but no one was talking to them, afaict, as other unfriendlies there too, afaict, no privacy to do a complaint, or a few...
Local Mortgage lenders for non disabled, first time homebuyers, etc...
Non profits,
Transit / commuting, like one that filled out my survey elsewhere and put answers I don't think were right, stacking the deck of results in their favor, afaict... Like amount of time/ trips on public transit instead of moto/bicycle, rentals, limited walking, etc... Work and money bias, as always... Otherwise, we don't care about you, so go away...
Other health services, county departments and non profits, some health related, some housing, some other(s)...
A list of exhibitors would help, like technical ones: RobotFest2015 RobotFest2016 , NoVAMiniMakerFaire2016 , etc
The housing had a BedBugs trifold flyer, which I picked up in English, and an uppity white woman with attitude, disagreeing and belittling at the same time... It takes professionals, and chemicals, her provider bias, very clear...
Typical provider attitude, which this Peer Support Specialist and Recovery focus tries to get away from...
Dependence on paid people to do everything for you, like talk to your worker, slave driver/ master, plus the byzantine workflow, needing some other official to do something for you, that reasonable people and processes could not do for themselves... Like write out your justification for needing food assistance, in essay form, and provide income and residency verification(s)...
Employment Related
The flyer had some stuff on employment, but I didn't see much, nor attend much of that, at all, too much other stuff to do...
Flu Shots
Limited quantities (100-250?), and a long line with nearly full bleachers, so just skipped it until later, while multitasking waiting for tests to finish, since the blood draw swapped me out for someone else, going back thru when the line was smaller, but ended up being one of the last few to get one, a mother with later appearing son lined up, dismayed that she could not get another one, others turned away as well, but more well behaved, a voucher or similar to have it done for free at the drug store, Walgreens, iirc, might have helped... Others have said some places are just giving away free shots, not insurance/anything, but a little paper work... Search and ye may find, I guess...
The Bolivian embassy was paying for it, but wanted forms, and they couldn't didn't find the forms, until alter, and wanting stuff, a drug store chain is bad enough a privacy problem, in a covered over gym floor, filled with tables/booths and intrusive and bored people all around, both sides of the tables besides all the history others might read, unknowns, and no copies, only one, the Lions Eye and Ear had a legal size triplicate carbonless form, other(s) I got an extra blank form to know what I had signed, and can guess what I put on the form, from previous history type surveys/questionnaires over the decades...
Smartphone/ accessability device photos of my paper answers might have helped too, if I trusted the online backup and other system(s), and phone cameras not to be stolen...
Tests
Various tests available, for free, at the health fare...
HIV testing
Upstairs, near the event volunteer staff only food and human services office, a table outside had condoms and business cards supplied, a seemingly trans woman, seemed to be front lining, and a guy, likely gay also there.... She thought I should stop by their office instead, requiring an extra trip, etc... Prep time, blood draw, did he really spit on the inserting needle, seemed to do it below the table, insist on everything done above the table, like card game, all cards kept above board. Said 15 minutes wait time for results, but don't leave, or they have to destroy the sample, inordinate waiting time to get started, others there, including kids and volunteers passing by, get a(nother?) room door opened by the site director, etc..
Vision and Hearing
Downstairs basement hearing, same carbon copied legal size form, and Lions truck outside for vision...
Chagas
A South American and South Western USA thing, a big pincer type bug bites you and all sorts of problems for the rest of your life... Kind of like ticks and Lyme's disease, afaict... A Johns Hopkins study of rapid testing, and Latinos only, offered to sit and talk a while, the tired but cheerful clinical woman with a young person (daughter and/or volunteer/witness?) said many people tested positive and had it. I took some Spanish only literature and put up somewhere on a local bulletin board, maybe someone can learn something, contact them directly afterwards, even if it doesn't apply to me, directly... EKG, and other extensive tests related to that study in other rooms... Might have been the embassy and main reason they had the HealthFair, afaict...
Kidney Foundation
I'm forgetting Liver vs. Kidney functions, but sign in/ up, one table measures weight (carrying stuff, food in helmet, thought I might have time to go for a ride...), height, calculate Body Mass Index (BMI) but it was ultimately a urine test, give you a little brown paper lunch bag, with a specimen bottle, paper towel, and moist towelette, pointing you towards a bathroom, but can use any bathroom, I would just need a photo/ copy of the sampling instructions, alter found only on the door, for taking the urine sample, I don't get piss tested that often, and wash hands, open bottle, wipe privates, pee, take sample, close up bottle, clean up/wash up again, while already had multiple punctures, I had peeled small potatoes for cooking and put a bandage on for that thumb nick, leaving open wounds uncovered is not wise, and everyone asking questions based on a bandage, while the privacy of a nosey, controlling, domineering/ sadistic social place no where near what you would get in the supposed privacy of a caring doctor's office...
That plus one might not need to pee, so there is an order to the sampling taking, and how to do it, when to do it, when to drink water/soda/etc, listening to verbal only instructions in a noisy crowded environment, multiple booths, directions, strange people, while supposedly helpful, also unknowns, volunteers, privacy and supervisory doctor(s), nurse(s) and processes are lacking, imnsho...
The kidney place had a numbered set of tables, and after all that, next to last, saw a doc for a moment who interpreted the results, I'm fine, healthy, at least in that subsystem, he forgot to say...
At the evaluation table, the last one (5,6 or 7?), circular? thru the room? Getting a copy of the lab results, (weight/ height/ BMI, urine sample results from the machine, etc), and trying to push information out about stuff, Kidney vs. Liver functions and the fundraiser walk that happened the next day, iirc...
Feet run over, so I'm not a big walkathon person, bicycling for charity is bad enough, given weekends before were raining heavily, and the ArlingtonFunRide happened anyways, IsBikingStillFun2016 was a prelude to it...
A1C Blood Glucose
I never found it, some tests/tables/ rooms were difficult to find, and others not found at all, in time or in general. The directory and finding places, even asking several staff / volunteer tables didn't help... All hands on deck staff wise, a few I would not want to encounter, much less overhear/ get papers about my personal information...
Food
One food table, outside by the moon bouncy and loud speakers playing Latino music, and I got the two last papusas, not bad, the messy and difficult way to eat them, the usual wrappings ran out, others coming right behind me got the soda(s), water, and other stuff, and that was hours after the start by 1, 2 or 3 pm, iirc... And it started at 10 am... I, of course, was up predawn, and waiting for hours for it to start, and having at least 5 conflicting activities that day (besides my normal Saturday activities, I could have gone to a twice annual indoor R/C Auction, but no actual Drone flying mentioned, and extremely low on funds to buy anything, a $5 door entry fee and transportation to get there and back...), some activities could wait, others cannot...
Other unknown people not happy about it, in typical fashion, I want what he has, after he gets it, gimme, style...
Basically, I just Ignored it...
Snooze, you lose, I did not say...
I'm not greedy, just hungry, not needing two, but local restaurant could close up the table, and pack up to go home/ another work site?...
Stop by again and buy some when I have a little more disposable income/ money?
Limitations of Just Screening
So screening/ testing for some stuff has some possible bad side effects.
Some may get a diagnosis, say HIV positive, etc and just commit suicide. Hopefully, it is better than that and more treatable now...
Others may use that for being safer and not infecting others...
Still others may intentionally infect others... Very Sick indeed...
What good does it do if you know you have something and no treatment is available for it?
Just putting a name on it? Does that give piece of mind? Knowing what it is, finally? Chagas, for example, many don't even know it exists...
What about false positives?
False negatives?
Preexisting conditions matters for employment, clearance, etc, and what does that do to insurance, if you have any? And/or trying to get some?
Home testing kits may exist for a lot of this stuff, which does it exist for? At what cost? Have to send out to a lab, for the expensive equipment based tests?
What about substance abuse?
Domestic violence?
Mental health?
BedBugs
And the piece d' resistance, and possibly ending in death, given all the other system failures, like an old disabled person who's immune/cardiac/liver/lungs/lymphnodes/etc subsystem is compromised by stress and other attacks, likely to be unmanageable, the whole system, if younger, might be able to take it, individually, but with politics, other attacks, and discrimination, likely fatal to many, the whole class of disabled, really, especially in the projects..,
The ankle biters, some think I'm talking about children, and the common usage, but fleas, and others at a low level, also literally bite ankles, like dogs, cats, other pets, and rabid stuff, so going generic on that term...
Chiggers, jiggers, one is an overseas sand flea, the other local, the local one, find it, and I thought because the mowing was happening on the trail, they didn't stop, maybe stones, branches, poison ivy, and other problems, the dogs at stops, and other problems, that was it, but looking into it, more, post being sprayed with chemicals at home by the exterminator, a new guy who was ordered by an unnamed person to soaked it, despite my objections and off to something else further away for a couple hours. and some nasty staff plus other problems, hoodies, and other predators listening in, and trying to get in, forced illegal entry really... DearDeer2016 and other stuff about that day and aftermath, and the lost/ stolen phone that day, discovered missing a couple of shut inside days later, never been anywhere else in the meantime, washed out from the schedule abuse, conflicts, moving stuff for extermination, and high stress, with other commitments, anyways...
Well, finding more insects, not all the same, not really cockroaches, looked like ticks with most legs/etc up forward, but didn't dig into the skin, like ticks do, and keeping some dead maybe a live ones, trapped in the plastic sandwich/snack bags, look them up online, seemed harmless, but noting overtime bloody sheet/undergarments spots, not the spotting of females with a period, but maybe like that, I've not been female, so dunno...
Bed bugs feed off of the people in bed, typically in hotels, hospitals and the like (shelters/programs/jails/brothels/etc), where beds and people turn over quickly. They bite, usually in a line, and not really felt at the time, some say, I seem to be itchy, and maybe longer term reaction to knowing that something may and probably is crawling around in the bed, while I'm trying to sleep...
Bed encasement bags exist, but are $25-90+ and not available everywhere, HomeDepot and BedBath&Beyond, being some brick and mortar stores, not checked yet, as don't have enough funds...
Diatomaceous Earth / DE for short, is the small sea creatures from centuries past that have a small and sharp structure, mostly silica, food grade processed versions for humans used in grain and stuff, to keep insects down, but other grades, only for pets/animals, others low grade/ quality, likely not even for that... Online it says they get in the cracks of bugs, and they die of dehydration, as their exoskeletons/shells are broken, guts drying/falling out, essentially... Boric acid powder /RoachPrufe a similar alternative for other problems, iirc...
At least three stages of bed bugs, eggs, small nymph types, red?, iirc, intermediate, and final adult size, with a striped lower body, like old tiled/segmented plate body armour (chinese paper armour resined, stopping arrows, on a history or similar show), overall gaps expands for the blood like a mosquito/ snake/ pregnancy/etc, filling up and part of the blood stains, when smacked/squished...
A smell exists with their guts/ deposits, musky the Wikipedia page or somewhere says...
Not that my nose really works, that well after decades of seasonal allergies, a deviated septum, and different wiring, etc, they say the same for mice/ rats, etc... Some people can just smell that they are around... Others approach a homeless/Black/Latino/other stereotypes person and claim they smell, just to discriminate, harass and threaten... Kind of like where are your papers/green card/ go back where you came from, but more nasty and forward, picking fights based on ethnicity and origin... Pride, a movie on BET recently, with Bernie Mac about a Philadelphia Department of Recreation school that closed down, in impoverished area, and a swimmer from college got it going again, the local kids lost their basket ball hoop in the heat, and tried the pool, eventually forming a team, went on a meet in the suburbs, and the return trip, meet at Foster's the white kids basically all claimed to be sick, instead of using their pool. They eventually took swimming seriously, practiced, stopped clowning around (one of the facility rules), went to the University of Baltimore regionals/TriState like Penn Relays for track and field, and like Jackie Robinson (baseball), Tiger Woods (golf), Serena (tennis) and others worked in another sports area/arena/theatre... Arlington was mentioned, but not placed, in that movie, iirc.
And it takes weeks of getting rid of them, the reproductive cycle, and white millimeter eggs lay around for at least 2 weeks, iirc...
So killing the larvae/ eggs/ whatever is necessary too, getting all the adult apple seed size other stage ones, isn't good enough, afaict...
Conflicting Activities
Besides just trying to get around, stay alive and live within budgets/ plans, my waiting for years to do something else, with out of town plans likely self canceled, as extremely low resources, since collections on accessible smartphone, and maybe one other thing, besides predatory people who just say you owe them and trying to get your phone, and everything of value, including ID, and place to live, contacts to hound / hunt you further, and not really being upfront, nor legal about it, hiding and attacking from behind, hooding, and disorienting at the same time, like a smoke/vape drug in a bag, and/or blinding, and likely illegal use of debilitating drugs for gone rogue vigilantes, local law enforcement, more likely drug dealers, misguided pre gang type kids and other scum like that...
Links
Transit
WMATA.com
HealthFair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagas_disease
Typhoid Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon
http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-the-city-of-new-york-did-to-typhoid-mary-was-pre-1674812001
BedBugs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug
DE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
bed encasement bags
steam cleaners
basically a portable autoclave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_steam_cleaner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_tTehoyQng
http://www.bedbugs.umn.edu/bed-bug-control-in-residences/using-steam-to-control-bed-bugs/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_%28epidemiology%29
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
While the Plague was bad, it didn't kill every human being, or we would have had to start back at the primordial ooze stage of development...
Some survived, and carried on... Mostly those away from Rats and Mice, iirc... The transport agent of the problems... Think Typhoid Mary, and the vectors of transmission...
The Health Fair could be streamlined to be more sample friendly, privacy concerns addressed, and other stuff, like safety and security, improved... Organized by sample type, and multiple tests from the same sample, and lining up for the bathroom, a family bathroom downstairs might have helped with the usual body mounted camera, and approaching kids, interruptions, not a single use room, etc... Some lost kids, could not find their mother, and other problems blue shirted morbidly obese staff getting very personal and graphic/ explicit unsolicited advice about how to do the piss/urine test, near closing, and late in the day with kids, and with other people, in general...
Mostly way past my bedtime, stress of other stuff, and bed bugs and other problems, made for a miserable experience, one on top of several others...
More to be done, sleeping is a problem, as in bed feels like crawling/itching, and my emotional response is even worse, can't really go anywhere, and tired, most of the time already, anyways, not wanting to deliver bedbugs to other people and places, and talking about it, like infidelity, adultery, crabs, HIV, SARS, Ebola, Zika, etc, not socially acceptable/respectable, in this time of high ideals, and low behavior (debates, political circus, personal attacks, etc)...
Maybe what it was like with MastersOfS2016 back in the 1950's to 1970's ?
Now consider some around are claiming to have given me the bugs...
How friendly, healthy, safe a place is that, if true and not just bragging/ empty threats?
How would you consider the analogy to Mental Health, where there really is no definitive biological tests?
Just try this, try that, a good result, and it might have been that...
How do you think Judi Chamberlain, of On Our Own fame, felt finally finding caring services at VEEC?
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
What bugs have you encountered?
Stung by a bee/ wasp/ hornet? Did you go into shock? Need to carry an epi Pin?
Allergic to peanuts?
Seen Termites?
Had termites?
No See Ums?
Gnats?
A face full of bugs while biking/walking along? Crashed or just blinded/inhaled/ eating some, by mistake, not to mention up your nose too...
Biting ants? Red ants? Fire ants?
Ever have a reaction to a caterpillar? Fluffy little thing, seems harmless, and had problems after, that developed?
What about jelly fish?
It's just like Jello? But the stingers...
What can you do to help with the scourge of insects and rodents, likely in The Projects and others have encountered?
Unlike AIDS, back in the day, the lepers and other reasons to turn up your noses, collectively and individually, against those who have had, and/or still have those problems?
And thinking forward/ worse:
SARs anyone?
MRSA?
Ebola?
Zika?
So you want to be in the health professions? Can you talk about these things reasonably?
Does traveling mean you encounter such things, in hotels and out?
What if you get one problem in one, during your travels, and have a set itinerary, and have to report it, do something about it at another? Are you denied admissions/registering at a hotel? Or, like Lice and kids, expected, at some point, in your lifetime and travels, and dealt with like human beings, instead of uninformed snobs, etc...
What's next Locusts? That runs on 4 or 17 year cycles, like cicadas, iirc... Just about like politics, iirc...
And the MastersOfS2016 study started out where the second debate was hosted, Washington University in St. Louis... Vegas might not be any better about most things, gambling, high stakes, at that, and sex, money, mob, secrets, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but not really, with all the press, hype, etc...
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