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To add to these guys, what it looked like in hospitals was all computers going blue screen of death on a loop. You would reboot and it would get to the desktop and go BSOD again. Communications with windows servers also went down.
The problem is, the safety plans are contingent on having windows working. There’s little to no contingent on no windows, people just expect it to always be there.
I and my team and all the individuals we ended up responsible for were fine by morning, but it was not a safe time.
911 was affected. Ambulance dispatch was affected. Many medical based institutions rely on windows and these security systems as well as airlines and such.
That said, please check on grandma, your favorite old uncle, single parent living solo, and all the rest today. There is no telling how many people are dead or injured in homes right now who couldn’t get through to emergency services last night. Maybe still can’t today.
We did get 7 computers back by 1am last night just by constantly rebooting.
That said, 40 out of 47 never came back. So clearly something more is needed.
Really? The entire hell of last night’s shift was this guy writing bad code?!?!
What is that? Potatoes with a side of stew on a plate?
Now I want some cheap soft serve ice cream. And it’s 2am.
No one, and I do mean no one, was enthusiastic about Biden in 2020. I don’t think many, if any, voted for him, they voted against Donald Trump is all. How many Biden signs did you see out and about? Almost none. That lack of enthusiasm is, in part, why some repubs genuinely believed the election was somehow stolen. They sure as hell didn’t see any enthusiasm either.
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My point being, we got it done last time with zero to negative level enthusiasm.
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This is where republicans have the advantage. They March forth and do their toe the line duty for “the cause” whatever it is. We wheedle and argue. With good reason, definitely now, I love Jon Stewart to death for saying all the things I’m feeling about this situation right now. But if wheedling and arguing cripple you and let Christo-authoritarian corporate dominance win, that’s not a good thing, no matter how righteous the argument for change before the election is.
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We did the thing in 2020. We need to do the thing in even greater numbers in 2024 or democracy is dead.
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Kamala will take over at some point before 2028. And Whitmer will be the new Dem candidate for 2028. Unless another Bernie type comes along.
Oh yeah. Having someone come into the Urgent Care or ED because of a tightness in the chest and shortness of breath because they had to choose between buying insulin and an asthma rescue inhaler this month.
There are also lots, and I do mean lots, of hospital beds taken up by uncontrolled diabetes. Some of it is flagrant “I don’t want to” in re to eating right and checking blood sugars, but the other half really is people who want to do their best with this trying diagnosis but cannot afford the test strips and medication every month so they ration out things that should never be rationed out or simply go without. There’s a ripple effect across all of heath care access with the fallout from it.