Tag: emergency
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There is no snooze button on the doomsday clock.
Midnight.This worldtips over. Last night I read that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant has had its power cut for the second time this week, leaving it to rely on backup diesel generators (they have 10 days of fuel) to prevent any nuclear catastrophe. The plant is currently surrounded by Russian forces, whilst Putin continues to…
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Do you know the international hand signal for: ‘help me’?
I just found out about this today. Originally launched by the Canadian Women’s Foundation last year as an emergency signal for girls and women in abusive situations to covertly express their need for help whilst on video calls. The signal is useful in that it only requires one hand and can be flashed discretely and…
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Hypersonic missiles.
Day 2 of COVID isolation. Too much time and too little space finds me doomscrolling and rabbit hole mapping. Let’s see….scroll, scroll, scroll…..HYPERSONIC MISSILES! As if we don’t have enough on our collective plates right now, it seems mankind is locked into some sort of frenzied technological sprint to the precipice of armageddon. The margin…
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Hand on heart.
As I look back at my career as an emergency department nurse, some memories continue to haunt me. For example: I fall into what must surely be a small cohort of people who have had the retrospectively profound experience of trying to keep a fellow human being alive by reaching into their chest cavity and…
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