Today a patient was hoisted in a litter onto a helo for the first time ever in the state of Kentucky (shown here with RedSTAR paramedic David Fifer). imgur.com/wQVYnmj
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πŸ‘€︎ u/crumbbelly
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Doug Ford called for a state of emergency in Ontario except for essential services. Paramedics are not considered an essential service in Ontario. This doesn't mean we will stop responding to calls. It's about time our government starts to classify us as essential like our coparts Police and Fire.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Darpa_Chief
πŸ“…︎ Mar 17 2020
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[MOC] A modern redesign of the classic LEGO Set 6364 Paramedic Unit. This MOC is a tribute to all the world's health workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. Link for instructions can be found in comment. Stay safe and keep healthy. :-)
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πŸ‘€︎ u/legolux1973
πŸ“…︎ Mar 24 2020
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TIL that the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000) is banned in South Korea and took 11 years before it was released in the United States and Canada. The film was banned in Germany in 2013, but this was later overturned. Quentin Tarantino considers Battle Royale to be one of his favourite films. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/famously_decent
πŸ“…︎ Dec 18 2020
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'So If You're Poor, You're Dead'? Watch These Brits Gasp When They Find Out Cost of Healthcare in the United States commondreams.org/news/201…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/maxwellhill
πŸ“…︎ Dec 03 2019
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A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the United States has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/JAlbert653
πŸ“…︎ Dec 26 2019
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TIL that the oldest federal enforcement agency in America is the United States Postal Inspection Service, a fact-finding, investigative agency of fully sworn-in federal agents. Founded in 1772 by Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin, it predates both the Declaration of Independance and the USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/redKatDreamer
πŸ“…︎ Sep 01 2020
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Worldwide Police, Fire and Paramedic Scanner. As cities ,states and provinces go on lock-down be able to listen in on what is ACTUALLY happening. broadcastify.com/
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πŸ‘€︎ u/hogancheveippoff
πŸ“…︎ Mar 15 2020
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The western United States has experienced such intense droughts over the past decade that technical descriptions are becoming inadequate. In many places, conditions are rocketing past β€œsevere,” through β€œextreme,” all the way to β€œexceptional drought.” news.ucsb.edu/2020/019761…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ Jan 24 2020
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The Most Overweight and Fittest Cities in the United States
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πŸ‘€︎ u/bok3h
πŸ“…︎ Oct 19 2020
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Undermining Trump-Bolton War Narrative, British General Says No Evidence of 'Increased Threat' From Iran. "Intelligence and military officials in Europe as well as in the United States said that over the past year, most aggressive moves have originated not in Tehran, but in Washington." commondreams.org/news/201…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/roku44
πŸ“…︎ May 15 2019
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President Trump on Friday threatened in a tweet to cut foreign aid to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, accusing the Central American countries of "doing nothing for the United States but taking our money" thehill.com/latino/423089…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/DoremusJessup
πŸ“…︎ Dec 28 2018
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EMTs/Paramedics in the state of CA can you provide me some assistance

Hello, I have a few questions and hope I'm asking in an okay place. I've tried googling around but I want definite answers from people with hands on experience in the field.

  1. How long did it take to train for being an EMT and roughly how much did it cost?
  2. How much do you enjoy your job?
  3. What are the hours and the pay like?

Those are my big 3, mostly #1 and #3. I've always wanted to do something medical and I feel like choosing this route calls to me more than anything I've come across so far. Any answers are appreciated.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/SheWantsTheDLift
πŸ“…︎ Mar 14 2019
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In the coming decades, climate change will lead to a significant increase in the frequency and severity of dangerous extreme heat across the contiguous United States. The number of days where the heat index exceeds 105 degrees is estimated to increase more than four-fold to 24 by mid-century newsweek.com/climate-chan…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ Jul 16 2019
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Almost every country in the world has agreed on a legally binding framework for reducing polluting plastic waste, with the United States a notable exception, United Nations environmental officials said Friday apnews.com/0771a60e9b0242…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/beafanatic
πŸ“…︎ May 10 2019
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TIL that the motto, "In God We Trust," is not the original motto of the United States. During the Cold War, it was changed from "E Pluribus Unum" ("from many, one") in an effort to differentiate the United States from atheistic communism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/jalapena_pinata
πŸ“…︎ Aug 02 2019
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Joe Biden tells crowd he's a 'candidate for the United States Senate’ in confused campaign speech independent.co.uk/news/wo…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ani625
πŸ“…︎ Feb 25 2020
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TIL in 1835, President Andrew Jackson successfully paid off the debt of the United States. The only time in history this has ever been accomplished. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/trwaway93
πŸ“…︎ Feb 28 2019
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The United States and Israel were the only countries that voted against UN General Assembly draft resolutions calling for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, measures to stop an arms race in outer space, and an end to the blockade of Cuba. thegrayzone.com/2019/11/0…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/tristan_isolde
πŸ“…︎ Nov 09 2019
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TIL the United States Government was in full support of the movie Independence Day [1996] offering real military uniforms and even jets until the film makers refused to remove Area 51 from the movie. The government withdrew all support. uproxx.com/movies/why-mil…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/VaBeachBum86
πŸ“…︎ Jul 13 2019
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A global team of scientists including researchers from Australia and the United States has found deforestation in the Brazilian Amazaon-Cerrado region is causing temperatures to rise in areas as far as 50km away from deforestation sites. news.uwa.edu.au/201909021…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ Sep 02 2019
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TIL That more than half the PhD's in the United States are fake, totaling up to 50,000 fake PhD's every year, along with 3,300 unrecognized and fake universities in the world. aaar.assembly.ca.gov/site…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/JoeGraz25
πŸ“…︎ Sep 08 2019
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Interest in the search terms 'GTX 1080', 'RTX 2080', 'RTX 2080ti' and 'RTX 3080' over the past 5 years in the United States.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/dirkdiggler580
πŸ“…︎ Sep 22 2020
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he does not believe Russia is still targeting the United States, contradicting U.S. intelligence assessments that Moscow was continuing to meddle in American elections. reuters.com/article/us-us…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/madam1
πŸ“…︎ Jul 18 2018
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United States wins 13-0 over Thailand in their opening match of the Women's World Cup, setting a new record for largest margin of victory bbc.co.uk/sport/live/foot…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/SounderBruce
πŸ“…︎ Jun 11 2019
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Argentine President-elect slams U.S. over Bolivia stance - β€œIn my opinion, the United States regressed decades. It returned to the bad times of the 70s,” Fernandez told a local radio, adding that it was β€œguaranteeing military interventions against popular, democratically elected governments.” reuters.com/article/us-bo…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/tristan_isolde
πŸ“…︎ Nov 13 2019
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President Trump has promised for years that Mexico would pay for a vast border wall. Now, in the Trump administration’s campaign to stop illegal immigration, the United States plans instead to pay Mexico $20 million in foreign assistance funds to deport as many as 17,000 people. nytimes.com/2018/09/12/us…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/readet
πŸ“…︎ Sep 13 2018
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The pressures of climate change and population growth could cause water shortages in most of the United States, preliminary government-backed research said on Thursday. it.reuters.com/article/id…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ Mar 09 2019
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Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power: less than 2 cents per kilowatt-hour β€” a number experts say would be the lowest price ever paid for solar power in the United States, and cheaper than the cost of electricity from a typical natural gas-fired power plant. latimes.com/environment/s…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/mvea
πŸ“…︎ Aug 28 2019
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I am a queer person of color standing with the first Muslim congresswoman, and I just voted for Bernie Sanders to be the next President of the United States. Early voting has started in Minnesota!
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πŸ‘€︎ u/politicalpug007
πŸ“…︎ Jan 17 2020
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What's going on with abortion and birth control laws in the United States?

I am out of the loop because I live in Canada. But I keep seeing all these posts on social media regarding abortion and birth control laws in the United states. Are they banning one or both of those or cutting funding for it? And more importantly why would they do this?Can someone fill me in?

Examples of 2 articles I've seen; and I've seen multiple tweets about abortion in the United states lately

https://www-latimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-abortion-bans-states-roe-wade-supreme-court-20190511-story.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fnation%2Fla-na-abortion-bans-states-roe-wade-supreme-court-20190511-story.html%3FoutputType%3Damp%23referrer%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%26amp_tf%3DFrom%2520%25251%2524s

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-47066307

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πŸ‘€︎ u/enitsujxo
πŸ“…︎ May 12 2019
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Cancer death rates in the United States have dropped 29 percent from 1991 to 2017, and in the most recent update we see the the largest single-year decline in cancer mortality ever reported. Trend largely driven by breakthrough therapies for lung cancer and melanoma. nytimes.com/2020/01/08/he…
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πŸ“…︎ Jan 08 2020
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A Manchester City fan who travelled more than 3,000 miles to watch his side play was "crushed" when the match was called off as Storm Ciara hit the UK. Matt Renninger, from Rhode Island in the United States, said watching his beloved Blues was on his "bucket list". bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/ShunningResumed
πŸ“…︎ Feb 13 2020
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New study links air pollution with over 30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy in the United States journals.plos.org/plosmed…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Roughneck16
πŸ“…︎ Jul 27 2019
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A Dublin-based company plans to erect "mechanical trees" in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, in what may be prove to be biggest effort to remove the gas blamed for climate change from the atmosphere. japantoday.com/category/t…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wagamaga
πŸ“…︎ May 05 2019
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Five men have been indicted in the United States for allegedly running an international network that purchased US products for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme. gulfnews.com/world/asia/p…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/AfterNerve4
πŸ“…︎ Jan 18 2020
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CMV: If you are still talking about Hillary Clinton in 2019, then you don't actually care about the United States.

Hillary Clinton has had zero relevance in terms of any actual policy in this country since she lost her bid for President in 2016, and really not even since she ended her gig as Secretary of State in 2013. She hasn't done anything in that span other than write a book, tweet a few times, and spend time with her family, all of which are pretty normal things to do for any American citizen.

And yet, I STILL see people creating fresh slams against Hillary, new memes about her, more rhetoric about how good it is that she didn't win. This is YEARS after she stopped being important.

There is only one reason I can think of that explains why anyone still feels like Hillary Clinton is still relevant: that politics is a game where people win and lose, and the only thing that matters is that your side wins. This mentality IS NOT focused on the country as a whole, and I can't possibly imagine why fostering a deep division is really helping anything. It highlights that people view politics like they view sports, where all they really care about is winning, and what you do with that victory is not to use your gained power for good but rather to just gloat about the fact that you won.

Remember how Democrats kept on railing about Mitt Romney in 2015, two to three years after he lost? What, you don't? Well why not?! I mean, he ran for President, and lost, and I think the majority of Americans seem to be glad about that, so why is that any different from Hillary in 2019?? My response is that Democrats actually DO care about the direction of the country and want to win so that they CAN change the country for the better, and the fact that they left Mitt alone after he lost is proof of that. The fact that people still care about Hillary in 2019 is proof that these people don't actually care about the direction of the country, they only care that their side wins elections so they can feel better about themselves. Why else would Hillary still be relevant in 2019?

Edit: Lots of good dialogue here. Let me respond to some of the common points brought up.... First, the delta I awarded was on this point that she is "not relevant". I admit now that she IS relevant, but I still maintain that she is not any more relevant to current politics than any other retired Democratic politician. I don't take seriously this idea that she may run for office since she said so herself, and second-hand conjecture is not going to sway my opinion on that.

More than anything else, it is that she is D

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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πŸ‘€︎ u/malachai926
πŸ“…︎ Oct 02 2019
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TIL Metallica’s β€˜Master of Puppets’ was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Wdwdash
πŸ“…︎ Nov 21 2017
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Legal cannabis stores linked to fewer opioid deaths in the United States. Findings may have implications for tackling opioid misuse. An increase from one to two dispensaries in a county was associated with an estimated 17% reduction in all opioid related mortality rates. eurekalert.org/pub_releas…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/BurnySandals
πŸ“…︎ Jan 28 2021
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The United States is pursuing the sale of more than $2 billion worth of tanks and weapons to Taiwan, four people familiar with the negotiations said, in a move likely to anger China as a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies escalates. reuters.com/article/us-us…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/madam1
πŸ“…︎ Jun 05 2019
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What is the drug test protocol for EMT/Paramedics in states where Marijuana is legal recreationally?

Do EMT’s in CA, Ore, Wash, Col, Nv, etc. still get tested for THC?

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