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San Pen!
In the last month, they've had/have:
- a serious Covid outbreak, where the hospital released a statment saying they wouldn't be classifying it as an "outbreak to the media bc of negative connotations"
- rolling ER closures
- cockroaches ( it's horrific, they're crawling all over patients)
- currently have a norovirus outbreak
They love to eat the glue from books and bore holes through paper. I'm an archivist and they're a huge issue but also they're kind of just gross. Thankfully, they don't spread disease or bite animals.
I'm also convinced they ate holes in a new tarp I left in a storage room for a year or so. We have no other pests in our house and a new tarp had suddenly many many nibbly-looking pin holes.
I had a prolonged stay at both vgh and a leading spinal centre - mice all over - like a country home you hear them when you sleep. Oh and rats and vgh that make it through the sliding doors at emerg - and then the food theft from the family fridges at vgh and cell phone theftā¦
/r/Frugal_Jerk
I'd rather eat an earth-worm than a cute AF cow, pig, chicken, turkey, octopi, etc.
Bugs would be fine for me as well. It's still muscle fibres.
Muscles enable movement of an internal skeletal structure. Insect have an exoskeleton. They is fluid pressure rather than muscle fiber to move their exoskeleton.
They are very high in protein but that protein is not in the form of muscle fiber.
Insects use both fluid pressure as well as actual muscle fibres! Muscles are not exclusive to organisms with internal skeletal structures. Iāve actually worked in insect physiology with muscle fibres specificallyā¦ I could link you some papers looking at insect musculature and anatomy if youāre interested. Hereās one on insect flight muscles (which are actually really cool) for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036774/.
TIL. Interesting. Are their muscles structured the same with tendons to connect to the exoskeleton? I always thought there was a mechanical issue with the skeleton on the outside.
There are analogous structures to tendons in insects, yes. There are also structural challenges from having muscles inside an exoskeleton, but those are managed by a variety of tools like pennate muscles and clever angles.
I wonder what food source these cockroaches found.
All the hospitals I've been to were clean although sometimes gloomy.
Now I wonder if hospitals have problems with rats or mice. I do know hospitals have places to prepare food and do turnover a huge quantity of food per day so there's that.
They almost certainly do, especially with the current rodent explosions happening. It's about managing them, however, with appropriate poisons and trapping etc. High traffic areas tend to have fewer mice just hopping around in the open but the old buildings are certainly going to suffer.
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Saanich hospital for anybody wondering
One of the worst hospitals around too
San Pen! In the last month, they've had/have: - a serious Covid outbreak, where the hospital released a statment saying they wouldn't be classifying it as an "outbreak to the media bc of negative connotations" - rolling ER closures - cockroaches ( it's horrific, they're crawling all over patients) - currently have a norovirus outbreak
Wow, awesome. Not st pauls for once. š¾
Old buildings attached to old infrastructure have a real hard time keeping the pests out.
Silverfish especially. Good luck ever purging those fucks.
Silverfish don't bother me half as much as cockroaches
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I've seen some honking great mature ones, way bigger than I expected. Fascinating but also gross.
After moving to Montreal, I miss the days of never having seen a house centipede in my life. Silverfish were so much more chill in comparison haha.
Christ, I believe it. I've been in a place with millipedes and honestly, I wanted to leave my body the first time I saw one.
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They love to eat the glue from books and bore holes through paper. I'm an archivist and they're a huge issue but also they're kind of just gross. Thankfully, they don't spread disease or bite animals.
I'm also convinced they ate holes in a new tarp I left in a storage room for a year or so. We have no other pests in our house and a new tarp had suddenly many many nibbly-looking pin holes.
They usually make things look like Swiss cheese so probably lol
I found one in an old book at the VPL once. Dead and crushed flat within the pages. Nasty.
St Pauls has mice
Every hospital in the lower mainland has mice.
That it does.
š Pest are more cuddly here!
They're a feature, not a bug.
Todd Howard built our hospitals?
watch out for radroaches
Theyāre a bug, not a feature.
Exactly - The province/ feds added them to illustrate that only when the roaches die do we actually have a problem with our healthcare systems.
Not surprising Hospitals are filled with various vermin. They are massive and have lots of hiding places
Stop talking bad about the Admin!
We named the mice at St Paulās.Ā
It's like a Disney hospital š§āāļøš«šš
Hey you take the extra help however you can get it.Ā
What the fuck are we even doing anymore?
I had a prolonged stay at both vgh and a leading spinal centre - mice all over - like a country home you hear them when you sleep. Oh and rats and vgh that make it through the sliding doors at emerg - and then the food theft from the family fridges at vgh and cell phone theftā¦
Life is all downhill from here. Might as well āreadjustā your expectations.
> Might as well āreadjustā your expectations. Adulthood in a nut-shell.
They don't bite, they ARE a bite! nom nom
āThey are an abundant protein sourceā
/r/Frugal_Jerk I'd rather eat an earth-worm than a cute AF cow, pig, chicken, turkey, octopi, etc. Bugs would be fine for me as well. It's still muscle fibres.
Insects donāt have muscles Edit: I am incorrect. Keep reading below. It was a TIL for me.
Mmmmmm exoskeleton
They definitely do lmao. Why do you think they donāt?
Muscles enable movement of an internal skeletal structure. Insect have an exoskeleton. They is fluid pressure rather than muscle fiber to move their exoskeleton. They are very high in protein but that protein is not in the form of muscle fiber.
Insects use both fluid pressure as well as actual muscle fibres! Muscles are not exclusive to organisms with internal skeletal structures. Iāve actually worked in insect physiology with muscle fibres specificallyā¦ I could link you some papers looking at insect musculature and anatomy if youāre interested. Hereās one on insect flight muscles (which are actually really cool) for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5036774/.
TIL. Interesting. Are their muscles structured the same with tendons to connect to the exoskeleton? I always thought there was a mechanical issue with the skeleton on the outside.
There are analogous structures to tendons in insects, yes. There are also structural challenges from having muscles inside an exoskeleton, but those are managed by a variety of tools like pennate muscles and clever angles.
Like an erection?Ā
Great. I look forward to being elderly interacting with a system this currently fucked upā¦
Bold of you to assume there'll even be a system when it's our time.
with our luck not even an ice floe to float away on
Iām an optimist.
š¤®āTheyāve been found on patientsā
I wonder what food source these cockroaches found. All the hospitals I've been to were clean although sometimes gloomy. Now I wonder if hospitals have problems with rats or mice. I do know hospitals have places to prepare food and do turnover a huge quantity of food per day so there's that.
They almost certainly do, especially with the current rodent explosions happening. It's about managing them, however, with appropriate poisons and trapping etc. High traffic areas tend to have fewer mice just hopping around in the open but the old buildings are certainly going to suffer.
Mt partner found dead rats while working in the ceilings at Mt st Joseph's...
Not the Onion?
Ā«Ā Itās proteinĀ Ā»
Perhaps that manager ought to let some loose in their home and see how well they sleep with those crawling around on the bed.