Cotinine testing - Day three of zero nicotine
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I just saw an ad on tv for "hands only" cpr. I've taken cpr classes before. Breathing air into the lungs helps. I guess more people will die now, because of this. 
That, is part of the grand master plan!
Back in the early 80's I was in the service, an the whole random urine testing thing started. I was against it then, and am even more so now. I don't see the major portion of our current population ever standing up to fight to regain our freedoms, like the right to privacy of what is in my body. Wait till they start requiring folks to wear "fit bit" type devices with tracking on board. After all, it's for "your safety"Trust us, were here to "protect" you...
They already are. Its called a cell phone. Most people are glued to theirs.
Haven't seen it
Its been floating around in my mind since I developed pancreatitis. One of the first things they did was a dna test to see if I had any mutation of the Cystic Fibrosis gene. They looked for about 1600 mutations.
And doctors have told me they think there could be other hereditary factors and are researching that.
Here's the description from Wikipedia, just to illustrate how close you were:
True, we can already be easily tracked with those devices. I was thinking more along the lines of companies monitoring individuals biometrics for whatever agenda, like setting insurance rates, hiring eligibility for elevated risk positions etc.
Existing anti-discrimination laws do not prohibit employers from discriminating based on whether or not the person is a smoker/nicotine user. In 2007 Cleveland Clinic became one of the first health care institutions to stop hiring smokers and trust me challenges have worked their way up through the court system over the years. As a result of these challenges, currently 21 states have laws explicitly allow hiring policies that prohibit smokers and tobacco users and since they use cotinine testing, now, this includes all nicotine use in any form. And... most no-nic employers also include in that policy... if you apply for a job and test positive for nicotine you can not reapply for 6 months.
An unintended consequence of such invasive policies, in the defense contractor industry, has been a massive "brain drain", the best and brightest young engineers are willing to take a pay cut to leave the big players and work for a startup that hasn't yet formed an HR department. Its a "quality of life" decision for many ...
Sadly, those startups don't often get the big funding, and frequently fail ...
The result is that our men and women in the armed forces do not always get the well-designed equipment that they need and deserve, but have to survive with flawed devices produced by sub-standard engineering ...
Its ironic that most of the great engineering achievements of the last century were fueled my copious amounts of alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine ...
Afternoon of Day 7 results are in...
The test results are what might be called inconclusive.
In other words, I can not say that I am definitely testing negative.
The second line that needs to be there for a negative test is actually showing.
But it is not very dark, like my wife's was, so yeah...
But tomorrow, I should be negative for sure.
The test results are what might be called inconclusive.
In other words, I can not say that I am definitely testing negative.
The second line that needs to be there for a negative test is actually showing.
But it is not very dark, like my wife's was, so yeah...
But tomorrow, I should be negative for sure.
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Drug use and abuse is endemic in the health care sector.
They would lose a substantial number of capable people if they came down hard on drug testing.
They can't afford to lose those current and potential employees.
I just saw an ad on tv for "hands only" cpr. I've taken cpr classes before. Breathing air into the lungs helps. I guess more people will die now, because of this.
Sorry, you are incorrect.
In 2010 the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation reviewed hundreds of studies and found that breathing just wasn’t necessary for people when doing CPR. It has only been recently that people in the U.S. have been paying attention to these studies, many European countries changed their recommended method well before the United States.
The role of CPR is to allow a person’s brain the opportunity to function again, getting blood to that brain is the only way to do it. It takes about 10 chest compressions in a row to create enough pressure to get blood to the brain. The minute you stop chest compressions, like when you are giving someone breaths, the blood pressure goes immediately back to 0. The least amount of interruption in compressions, even for breathing, the better chance the person has of surviving.
Hmm...never knew that. I know chest compressions worked. I was just taught that you need to get air as well.
Sad, really, that the US is so behind the medical times in many areas. Who knows how many lives could have been saved if the US would have paid proper attention to these studies and implement the no breath CPR method years sooner.
ETA: To better understand.... There is usually an adequate amount of oxygen in the blood for a while, but brain cells begin to die approximately 4-6 minutes after blood stops flowing. Every minute after that, a person’s chance of regaining function within those cells goes down by about 10%, so, around 10-16 minutes after someones heart stops they will be brain dead.
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Correct. It is Currently a State by State issue.
And I believe there Needs to be Federal Legislation making this type of Employment Discrimination Illegal.
The existing anti-discrimination law that does not prohibit employers from discriminating based on whether or not the person is a smoker/nicotine user is a federal law.
ETA: Through the courts it was determined it is not discrimination if the person has a choice, unlike, skin color, disability... nicotine use is a choice just like alcohol and drug use which both of those can also ban you from employment without legal ramifications. I have been waiting for some time now for weight to come into full play, some are already testing those waters (since 2013) by charging their overweight employees higher insurance premiums.
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Mouth-to-mouth is mainly effective if the person has stopped breathing for whatever reason -- an obstruction perhaps, which the preliminary steps -- clearing out the throat and mouth with the fingers -- can clear -- but their heart is still beating. But yeah, without blood pressure, it doesn't matter how much air you give them, if it's not getting to the brain.
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I see it like this. An employer can perhaps buy me for 8 hours a day. The rest is mine!!!!!! No negotiation on that point.
not to get all medical-ie on ya LOL but never do a finger sweep in anyone mouth, first it has been proven blind finger sweeps can force a foreign object into an obstruction, and if it is obstructing already, a deeper immovable obstruction and second it is not uncommon for a person not breathing to have a seizure and bite down your finger if you stick it in there and trust me it's pretty impossible to get their mouth open enough to let anything go.
Quoted because living in a world that is NOT like that is NOT a valid reality to live in.
And yet, here we find ourselves, more and more.
Some states have disallowed discrimination based upon legal activities like nicotine use. I happen to live in one of them. Personally I'd like to see that protection go federal, but I don't have high hopes that it will.
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