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In a situation where perhaps time is of the essence, there seems to be a little bit more urgency, but there was no urgency here.
Same reasoning applies with a corpse.
I work in 911 dispatch, different areas and agencies may handle things a little differently but where I work we give our incidents a priority from 1-5, with 1 being the highest
For EMS, priority 1 is things like cardiac arrests, shootings, stuff where the person has a very real chance of dying any second.
2 is most of the things you'd expect people to call an ambulance for, they do need to be seen in a hospital for and relatively quickly, but you're not immediately in danger of expiring.
3 is the stuff that you probably could have called around to a couple friends for a ride or called an Uber or something for or maybe driven yourself to urgent care. Like sure, you probably want to see a doctor about that, but it's not really that urgent, if you waited until tomorrow you'd probably be no worse off than you are today and in some cases you probably could have slept it off.
4 is basically for psych issues. You're basically completely physically healthy and stable, you're just cuckoo for coco puffs. The only way you're going to die on the ambulance ride over is if it gets T-boned by a semi truck, or you annoy the crew so much that they throw you out the back of the ambulance while doing 70mph down the highway.
Which brings us to class 5. You're dead. You're obviously dead and no amount of life-saving measures are going to bring you back. Usually they're not even going to actually take you away in an ambulance, they're just going to say someone with medical training can go "yep, that's a corpse" in case the cops on-scene are even dumber than usual and didn't see you breathing, they're going to throw a white sheet over you and let the coroner come around later to scrape you up. Unless you're Mitch McConnell apparently.
What if his death was to be kept secret? Do VIPs get any priority? I would think in the situation being implied, they wouldn't follow standard procedure. It's all just conjecture... but these people are so vile and lie so freely that it is the first thing a lot of people including myself think of.
As far as VIPs getting priority, the only thing that comes to my mind that I've come across is one old rich guy with a note attached to his address with instructions that for basically any medical calls there can be directly airlifted to one of the big hospitals downtown
He's loaded, lives almost right across from a small airport that one of our medevac helicopters fly out of, and made his fortune in some sort of healthcare/health insurance something-or-other (I'm fuzzy on the details of, but he was one of the big players in that field probably 30-40 years ago)
We have a handful of other pretty rich and influential people in my area, and I've gotten calls from and regarding a couple of them (nothing too crazy) but at least from my end of things there's not a whole lot of special treatment going on. What special instructions the cops and other field units have isnt something I'm privy to.
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So McConnell would be what, somewhere between 11 and 30?
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Yes, that's the entire point here for anyone who may be confused.
Yeah, but this is a shit take anyway. They would have stabilized him before taking him to the ambulance even if he was in cardiac arrest, so there wouldn't have been a sense of urgency either way.
Not saying he's alive, but this line of reasoning doesn't tell us shit
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You know we've gone full 1984 dystopia when the fucking Senate Majority Leader stands there with a straight face and claims he had a conversation with McConnell about national security of all things (as if you'd really expect them to discuss that), and all the reporters just parrot what he said as unquestioned fact. And no one will bat an eye or ever mention his blatant lying, when it comes out that McConnell was dead the whole time.
So they brought a secure phone to the hospital? And made sure nobody in the hospital could hear!
Bullshit.
We are currently clean on OPSEC
He's passed on! This Senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet his maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! His metabolic processes are now history! He's kicked the bucket. He's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.
THIS IS AN EX-SENATOR!
No no, he's resting. Just look at his plumage!!
I believe the term is brumating.
The state should declare him dead and move on.
And yes, haha I get the reference.
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Do HIPAA protections still exist after the person is dead?
Hey! Cybersecurity professional here who also deals with HIPAA regularly. Two things -
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Thanks for spelling HIPAA correctly, so many people get it wrong.
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Yes, HIPAA covers you for 50 years after you die, so you still have the same protections in place as if you were living for that long after you kick the bucket.
So in other words, the GOP will admit Mitch McConnell is dead in 2076.
Mitch for president 2029 😨
I'd take a bloated corpse over the bloated turd we have today.
they're both bloated corpses. one just emits a great deal more hot air.
No, they would not tell the truth.
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Hungry Hungry HIPPAs
now I wonder what interesting person died 50 years ago so I can snoop on their private medical files.
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Witnesses who aren't involved in entities covered by HIPAA can say whatever they want.
Still applies for 50 years from death.
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People should be in the streets at Kentucky lawmakers homes right now.
This is insanity.
Moscow Mitch is possibly the man who did more damage to our country than anyone else. The Trump administration is his victory, just with someone he couldn't control and actually turned his constituency against him.
Trump is an evil SOB and the US is worse for having him as a president... but I'll at least say one good thing about him, if you poke your head in conservative circles, they have as much respect for the turtle as the left. And I love that for Mitch. May his legacy forever be mired in shit.
As someone who's not from the US, can u give me a TLDR of what he did?
Not OP, but I hate Mitch so much I looked up a write up.
He held up not just the supreme court nomination from Obama (and rushed one through for trump). He held up many nominations to federal judges for Obama. He waited for trump to get in and then packed the federal courts with more heritage foundation approved judges.
Personally, I hate him because one time when the federal gov shutdown over a budget under Obama. They stopped paying the military. The house passed a partial that would have the troops get paid. McConnell decided not to vote on it because Fuck Him.
All that shit he and his fellow repubs say about supporting the troops. Not one of the repubs in the Senate called him out on it. If they supported the troops they would have called him out. We still had to work. I still had to make sure me and my Marines got ready for deployment. The bills we had to pay still were due. Their kids still need to be feed. Fuck Mitch and fuck all the repubs that claim to support troops but just support the military industry complex and the kickback donations.
Don’t forget that once you’re out, the first people to screw over veterans, in any country really, are conservatives. They got their worth out of you and if you die in the streets that’s a you problem.
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Abused the Senate traditions to advance his party for decades, culminating in a refusal to see dem nominations to the supreme court and then fast tracking repub nominees resulting in the lopsided court that has accelerated the collapse of equal rights in the usa and the speedy rise of corpofascism
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That man is dead unless he gets up in front of his constituents and says otherwise. Maintaining that he is alive to "protect his seat" is criminal and those responsible should be put to the sword.
Unfortunately, his existence or lack there of is irrelevant to the future of the country. He's a tool and will die regrettably well-accomplished in his task.
It seems that, depending on when it's announced, and which KY laws take precedent, it could matter.
Rot In Piss
I mean.. thats the only way you get into an ambulance.
They aint gonna fuckin loony toons bar bouncer you into the back of the ambulance from 20 feet away.
It would be a lot funnier, though
Someone posted on 4chan that they replaced his body with Epstein before the new reported anything.
DOA
Damn maybe next time.
I mean, a non-hurried loading in a stretcher is also what happens when a case isn't immediately life-threatening but still requires medical attention
Don't they usually put people in body bags before loading if they're already declared dead?
Is this in poor taste? FUCK THAT AND FUCK MITCH MCCONNELL, ROT IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!
I'm sorry I've had a rough day.
I still stand by what I said tho.
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One of the rare times breaking HIPAA would be worth it. Anyone there, anyone, break it, break it wide open. Think about it, doae this monster diserve privacy? He is a public official. He does not get the right to privacy. People will protect you and support you. do it.
We can only pray (that he kicks the bucket)
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