Anonymous #3 11w

Solid gold

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Anonymous #7 11w

In this case junk food does make you feel like crap you can eat healthy without being hyper restrictive

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Anonymous #8 11w

it’s so strange that eating healthy is seen as hyper-restrictive or even mental illness. it’s literally just cooking risotto or fried rice instead of mcdonald’s burger

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Anonymous #3 11w

Also the gym, over time, is a major benefit to the mental and physical health of the vast majority of people. I think OP has a decent meme here

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Anonymous #7 11w

People don’t watch TV anymore? So Netflix, Hulu, AmazonPrime, Disney+, and HBO Max just don’t exist all of a sudden?

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Anonymous #3 11w

h2o is such a good series, i still rewatch it i love my girls 🫶🫧

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Anonymous #3 11w

i think this is how ill spend my summer

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Anonymous #13 11w

don’t forget to go to the beach and touch some native vegetation!

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Anonymous #3 11w

im splashing my dogs in a lake rn don’t worry

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Anonymous #13 11w

Might be too late, but do NOT dive into any freshwater lake, ever. The parasite Naegleria fowleri can be found in lakes. It’s better known as the BRAIN EATING AMOEBA. You’ll never guess why. The good news is that it has to enter through the nasal passages, and every documented case ever the pt (victim) has had water rush up their nose in some manner or another—that’s why I said diving. Swimming w head above water is fine

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Anonymous #9 11w

this is only in areas where it doesn’t sustain a cold enough temp to kill it over the winter. so like the mid-atlantic and south.

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Anonymous #1 11w

Blatantly false. Just because those regions are where infections most commonly occur—roughly 3-5 per year in the US, does NOT mean infections can only occur in those regions. This is potentially life or death: an over abundance of caution is warranted. Also, hello, fellow student of microbiology.

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Anonymous #9 11w

engineering adjunct. fair that “only” as an overgeneralization, but a huge component of risk management is not just severity but likelihood. you can’t fear fatigue the public over something that’s only happened a handful of times in the past hundred years in a certain region and expect them to have the mental bandwidth to also take every other important precaution against things like, say, lime disease, that are exponentially more common but less deadly.

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Anonymous #9 11w

in other words, it’s not impossible, but fear-mongering over something that improbable is more public harm than good when it comes to the general public’s trust in the scientific community

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Anonymous #1 11w

A 97% fatality rate is not fearmongering. Do not dive into lakes. Period.

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Anonymous #9 11w

it is in the context that in most parts of the country the likelihood of illness is completely negligible. don’t put your head underwater in still bodies of freshwater in the southeast when it’s warm outside, take a risk management course, and don’t encourage distrust in scientific professionals giving advice.

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Anonymous #1 11w

I’m a second year med student. Are you familiar w the actual clinical presentation of PAM? I am not “encouraging distrust in scientific professionals”. I am dedicating my life to helping people live longer and healthier lives by taking time out of my day to five free knowledge that I pay roughly $60,000 per year to have the privilege to study

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Anonymous #9 11w

i am, and in my (actually done with my graduate degrees and teaching since you had to start a pissing contest) professional opinion, the implications of hazard fatigue when indescretionately warning people of things that present them negligible actual quantifiable risk are greater than the benefits of a student who got nerdy about one particular thing hyping everyone up over an issue that does not statistically apply to them.

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Anonymous #9 11w

being passionate about your job doesn’t make you right, and just because you mean well doesn’t mean you’re not doing more harm than good.

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Anonymous #1 11w

more comprehensive infographic for those interested

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Anonymous #1 11w

Naegleria fowleri is not a bacterium, so now I’m confused. I’m not familiar with any bacteria that could be called “brain eating”. It’s common in meningitis, of course. But that’s quite different from this parasite. Clinical presentation is similar tho and it can be a pain in the ass distinguishing between it and simple bacterial meningitis. Usually presence of trophzoites in CSF is the distinguishing factor—that’s what I learned in micro last semester anyway

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Anonymous #9 11w

you’re focusing on a misleading label a publication gave an image that just had larger numbers but the same data as the one from the cdc and not the fundamentals of your argument. it’s fine to nerd out on things, but the lesson is not to use that information irresponsibly. people don’t just presume you’re right in an argument because you can rattle off vaguely related information from a project you did in the professional world where people actually know what information means.

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Anonymous #9 11w

you’re flippantly using your very narrow-in-scope but extensive-in-depth knowledge to show off that you know a thing and not to truly educate, and the strong suggestion to research public risk and hazard management still stands.

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Anonymous #1 11w

There are far simpler ways to show off, I could just post a video of a bench press PR on the gym page. I am truly educating. PAM is an awful, preventable death. I want people to think twice before they dive into lakes. Oh and using any form of nasal rinse: BOIL the water beforehand—then obviously let it cool before inserting it into your nasal passages. Fowleri cannot survive the boiling process. Better safe than sorry. It’s past bedtime now. Back/biceps tomorrow morning

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Anonymous #9 11w

girl we be diving in lake michigan all the time “any freshwater lake” is over generalizing.

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Anonymous #9 11w

if you were actually listening to what i’ve explained to you, issuing unnecessary warnings on some stranger’s social media post is not the “better safe than sorry” option, because the distrust in medicine that behavior fosters is breeding more dangerous alternative views in the popular zeitgeist. but you’re never going to hear the facts of the matter over yourself if you keep thinking you’re the shit when you’re really just a loud fart.

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Anonymous #3 11w

If you suddenly develop symptoms of bacterial meningitis, then get to the emergency dept ASAP. The only people who have survived have been young and began treatment in early stages.

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