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[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 11 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Considering no one knows what hospital he's in. There is absolutely no way that all the RNs, CNAs, APPs, and MD involved that NOTHING would have leaked. HIPAA doesn't do anything about an unknown anonymous tip.

With all that said. He is absolutely being kept at the house of someone involved in the cover up. Either alive or dead. Most likely dead. Watch for news on August 3rd that he suddenly died.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Image with him alive was just released

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I'll see you August third sir.

I've saved this post.

[–] Master167@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Help me understand. Why August 3rd?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

And against privacy.
Also pretty sure he did more than just voting.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 36 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Meanwhile 99% of America would be fired, lose their benefits and be unplugged because they are dead anyway

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Except that one woman who was forced to carry her child to term before they pulled the plug and then charged the family.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 7 hours ago

Idea's true but can't help but push back on this "middle class" as an existing group. There is no such thing just the bourgeois and the proletariat.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago

Note that he doesn't need any of these things even if he is alive.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it's called "rules for thee, not for me" for a reason

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[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't like this bastard at all, but we also have FMLA.

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 hours ago

Fmla is none of those 3 things. FMLA doesn't pay for care, or pay while your sick; it doesn't even guarantee your job, it guarantees a "similar" job. Its enough of a weasel word for employers to fuck with you if they want to over fmla leave.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 112 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Or he's getting none because he's dead

[–] Steve 64 points 11 hours ago (14 children)

He's not dead.
Comatose, non-responsive, vegetable? Probably.
But the hospotal isn't going to keep a rotting corpse for a month.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago (26 children)

Disagree. They made a corpse deliver a baby against the family’s wishes. The people in charge are pure evil

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 28 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Shit, it's Kentucky hospital too...

They're not exactly the best at making that whole "alive or dead" call.

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room.

She quickly realized something wasn't right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

"He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed," Miller told NPR in an interview. "And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly."

The donor's condition alarmed everyone in the operating room at Baptist Health hospital in Richmond, Ky., including the two doctors, who refused to participate in the organ retrieval, she says.

"The procuring surgeon, he was like, 'I'm out of it. I don't want to have anything to do with it,' " Miller says. "It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset."

Miller says she overheard the case coordinator at the hospital for her employer, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), call her supervisor for advice.

"So the coordinator calls the supervisor at the time. And she was saying that he was telling her that she needed to 'find another doctor to do it' – that, 'We were going to do this case. She needs to find someone else,' " Miller says. "And she's like, 'There is no one else.' She's crying — the coordinator — because she's getting yelled at."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5113976/organ-transplantion-mistake-brain-dead-surgery-still-alive

I guess we should be surprised Mitch isn't an organ donor tho...

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago

The American people should sue if we’re paying for his benefits. They can keep a corpse alive but deny us for every medical procedure

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago

Mitch is dead and sucking money from US taxpayers. Brain dead is dead too.
On the other hand, folks might make some money betting he will "die" in August.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

He's just pining for the white hoods.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 54 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Hypocrisy is a core component of the capitalist machine.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Unlike the communistic system where the political leaders use the system to enrich themselves?

Obviously both are purely economic ideas that can't exist in their ideologicsl state in reality. It's fair to say that capitalism scales better than communism. Everyone is communistic within a family, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" fits perfectly within the realm of family. Private ownership according to your contribution works very well in the realm of society.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

I’m sick of this tyranny

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Clearly their problem isn't with good wages or quality healthcare, it's the "universal" part they have a problem with. And I don't think it's necessarily because they want some people to go without (although that could be the case for at least some of them), it's just that they realize that for everyone to have enough, they have to have less, and that's unacceptable to them.

They want to have healthcare tied to your job. It gives the owning class control. In other nations we can change jobs for whatever reason and still get healthcare. If they treat us like shit we can quit and not have to worry about medical bills. People label it as corporate feudalism for a reason.

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I just read that he released a statement. Politically, I'm bummed. Humanely, I'm glad he's okay-ish. Stupid empathy.

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