doctors from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Spanish foreign health service assessed the French woman and dismissed her symptoms as anxiety or stress
Somehow, this doesn’t engender confidence in the ability of these entities to provide accurate assessments moving forward into what could potentially be a larger outbreak.
“That guy coughing up a lung look okay to you, Clef?”
“Mmm? Oh … yeah. Just a little stress, I’d imagine. Have you seen the price of petrol lately?”
In the US perhaps, over here we are proud to dismiss anyone with anxiety regardless of gender, women in particular get instead dismissed with period cramps or potential pregnancies! /s
“We have the best dismissal rates. I know all about dismissing women. Nobody knows more about dismissing women than me. Women come up to me all the time, tears in their eyes. ‘Mr President, you raped me when I was 13’. I just call them a bitch, and dismiss them. And when you’re famous, you can do it! Believe me. Believe me”.
(It’s so hideous some of that was based on actual events).
Somehow, this doesn’t engender confidence in the ability of these entities to provide accurate assessments moving forward into what could potentially be a larger outbreak.
“That guy coughing up a lung look okay to you, Clef?”
“Mmm? Oh … yeah. Just a little stress, I’d imagine. Have you seen the price of petrol lately?”
Statistically likely they would treat a man more seriously though. Women are far too often dismissed with anxiety or just dismissed altogether.
In the US perhaps, over here we are proud to dismiss anyone with anxiety regardless of gender, women in particular get instead dismissed with period cramps or potential pregnancies! /s
“We have the best dismissal rates. I know all about dismissing women. Nobody knows more about dismissing women than me. Women come up to me all the time, tears in their eyes. ‘Mr President, you raped me when I was 13’. I just call them a bitch, and dismiss them. And when you’re famous, you can do it! Believe me. Believe me”.
(It’s so hideous some of that was based on actual events).