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As alcohol abuse rises amid pandemic, hospitals see a wave of deadly liver disease
LA Times ^
| FEB. 8, 2021 5 AM PT
| Eli Cahan
Posted on 02/08/2021 10:37:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
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The blame for this lays squarely at the feet of the governors and mayors who went mad with power once they learned they could order millions of people to give up basic liberties.
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:37:26 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Liver damage occurs slowly over many years due to alcohol. This article is garbage. If they would have written an article about a rise in alcohol poisonings due to overdrinking a la Bon Scott or Amy Winehouse it would have been more believable.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Perhaps I did a poor job excerpting.
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:48:55 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Speaking of Amy...
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow - Amy Winehouse
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:51:09 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Well I just spent 17 days in Allenmoore Hospital i Tacoma and 4 days in Good Sam in Puyallup and nothing was being over run with anything. I spent 17 days with a room to my self in Tac and 4 days in a room single op..
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:56:04 PM PST
by
tallyhoe
To: BenLurkin
Liver lock-downs! No more traveling to the liquor stores. Stay in your homes and go cold turkey otherwise your liver will look like a piece of burnt bacon.
Here's we see an actual image of a liver from a victim of alcohol abuse, caused by the pandemic.
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:58:13 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
That’s what I thought but if you read the excerpt they are talking about people who had successfully quit drinking who relapsed due to the lockdowns and isolation. A good many of those probably had some underlying liver disease already.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:30:43 PM PST
by
Mom MD
To: dragnet2
Mine looked like that this morning!!!??!!
To: Mom MD
If you quit drinking the liver can heal itself. So either they hadn't stopped drinking for very long before they restarted or their livers were already so damaged they were on the edge anyway. That probably doesn't make up a very large percentage of people who have been isolated due to the pandemic.
I have no doubt there are people who are going to drink themselves to death because they have lost hope and this pandemic was the last straw. But this article is just trying to sensationalize a small percentage of that group.
To: BenLurkin
I can show you a picture of a healthy liver, and then I can show you one of a horribly unhealthy liver. Guess what? Both people are dead. Drink up! Cheers!
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posted on
02/09/2021 12:36:08 AM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
To: BenLurkin
"The blame for this lays squarely at the feet of the governors and mayors who went mad with power once they learned they could order millions of people to give up basic liberties.
I wonder what adjustments AA had to make to accommodate quarantines?
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posted on
02/09/2021 12:56:15 AM PST
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
To: tallyhoe
Care to explain your post further?
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posted on
02/09/2021 1:12:11 AM PST
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2021 2:36:30 AM PST
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: clearcarbon
They’re on Zoom, but that’s hardly anonymous.
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posted on
02/09/2021 2:49:43 AM PST
by
EEGator
To: BenLurkin
A local liquor store sells T-shirts that say, ‘The liver is evil. It must be punished.’
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posted on
02/09/2021 4:04:39 AM PST
by
real saxophonist
(Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
To: BenLurkin
Living with covid is a piece of cake compared to life and morale under Obama and now Biden. The wonder is that the whole country isn’t drunk.
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posted on
02/09/2021 5:25:47 AM PST
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: BenLurkin
We need to ban this dangerous drug.
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posted on
02/09/2021 5:39:10 AM PST
by
NobleFree
("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
To: clearcarbon
They flipped over to AU—Alcoholics Unanimous!
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posted on
02/09/2021 5:52:20 AM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: Bonemaker
In the USSR the state food stores shelves might be bare, but the state liquor stores were always stocked to the ceiling with vodka.
Soviet rulers knew what they were doing.
Are liquor prices going up? I don’t think so.
That idiot governor in Pennsylvania closed all the state liquor stores. He should have put up Soviet style posters exhorting “Safety! Discipline! Temperance, comrades!”
Then the lockdown was quietly withdrawn. Hmm....
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posted on
02/09/2021 6:11:52 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
To: BenLurkin
Last September, I quit drinking due to poor health. After 40 years of beer binging, I thought my liver would never shrink. Today, six months later, the beer gut is completely gone and my liver is clean and, miraculously, undamaged. I lost an astounding 22 lbs. I just mention this in case someone else here is thinking of quitting. Your reward and results might be significant.
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posted on
02/09/2021 6:13:24 AM PST
by
LittleBillyInfidel
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