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Post by spinifex on Jul 11, 2019 16:10:08 GMT 10
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Post by milspec on Jul 11, 2019 17:08:01 GMT 10
It seems we have those items covered other than precious metals which I don't personally feel is important (our bartering currency will be food/water/fabrication services). We could use more of the addictive items like alcohol and coffee but we seem to keep depleting those stores .. oddly enough. I think they should have added skills to the list.
As a side note on the meds - my partner caught this flu that's going around and it hammered her, I started coming down with the symptoms after about 4 days as well so we both went to the doc and got scripts for antibiotics, they are more potent than the usual variety, no doubt because of the severity of this years flu. Anyways the newly issued antibiotics went into the medical supplies kit and we used some older antibioics (same type but lesser dose) from our med kit to treat the current symptoms. aka we used this 'opportunity' to refresh and bolster our prep med kit. - this kind of decision has a medical risk associated with it, so I'm not recommending anyone else tries it - but food for thought if you can afford to tolerate some health risk and based on the number of deaths from flu complications this year, many can't. If I stop posting in a few weeks time, all'y'all will know it wasn't the right decision  |
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Post by frostbite on Jul 11, 2019 17:40:14 GMT 10
. If I stop posting in a few weeks time, all'y'all will know it wasn't the right decision I got dibs on the Porsche, the tractor and the thermal. |
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Post by blueshoes on Jul 11, 2019 21:21:21 GMT 10
Hang on are we talking anti-biotic drugs or anti-viral drugs (tamiflu)? Because antibiotics don't work on Flu and other viruses...
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Post by milspec on Jul 11, 2019 21:39:02 GMT 10
Hang on are we talking anti-biotic drugs or anti-viral drugs (tamiflu)? Because antibiotics don't work on Flu and other viruses... Doc suspected possible viral symptoms in conjunction with flu. Hence antibiotic treatment |
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Post by bce1 on Jul 12, 2019 9:15:01 GMT 10
A ‘bad virus’ doesn’t need ABs - doctors prescribing them for people who are ‘sick’ just in case it is something more than a simple viral infection is poor practice.
Being charitable I hope the GP thought it started as a viral infection and developed a secondary chest infection and that is what the ABs were for.
There continues to be gross over prescribing of antibiotics by GPs - in part it is lack of knowledge - Australia for unclear reasons has imported a lot of poorly educated doctors from developing countries -who pass a test and are then let loose on the public - these doctors tend to gravitate to general practice in bulk billing Medicare practices in central city downtown areas or the rural areas - not bagging all of them but that has been my experience in QLD and NT. The second part of the problem is risk adversity - if you see 50 people with a severe viral illness, 1 of them will go on to develop a serious bacterial infection - so their solution is to give all 50 antibiotics to catch the one - that approach is irresponsible a breeds resistance in bacteria.
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