No Guns Allowed

[suprtrkr]

Maybe nest time you go in, you should tack up your own sign on the board: "My lawn. Keep off it."

 

[RayofLight62]

Ever read Isaac Asimov "Robots of the Dawn" where on the planet Solaria, each human is separated by others by acres of land.
At a certain point, his signature detective has to meet a local, and a page-long reflection starts about the person starting to sweat at the thought that the air, having previously been in the lungs of one person, could happen to be in the lungs of the person close to him.
This to say.
vape, before being visible, has been in the lungs of the Vaper, it is right.
But, the vape is no more than a marker.

The sad truth is, when you are close to another person, you are sharing the same air. Vapor just make it identifiable.

I do understand I am bothered if there is an hi-power cloud chaser in the room, I do understand that the unease is mostly psicologycal, but this is when reciprocal human respect comes into play.

I would allow in my room low-power, pod vapers where their vape dissolves after one-two feet.

Being considerate is the key.

 

[Rossum]

Vapor was once in someone's lungs and is a visual clue just how far and wide a person's breath can travel. When sitting in a waiting room with potentially sick people it can feel kind of creepy thinking about what potential virus might be in that vapor heading your way.

Yeah, but if that vapor is has a substantial portion of PG, it would likely help prevent the spread of communicable illnesses.

If I owned/ran a doctor's office, I'd fog the place with PG every night.

 

[ScottP]

Yeah, but if that vapor is has a substantial portion of PG, it would likely help prevent the spread of communicable illnesses.

If I owned/ran a doctor's office, I'd fog the place with PG every night.

AFAIK PG has only been proven to kill staph and strep. I could be wrong though. It doesn't seem to kill cold or flu viruses.

 

[listopencil]

I feel creepy anyway. I always found the "sick" and the "well" child waiting rooms particularly amusing. I mean, they did not have separate ventilation systems or anything.

Let's face it you are at a pediatric waiting room.. Your kid is either sick about to be sicker, and like, either that or healthy, but about to scream their .... off concerning their shots, then sick.

I would find vapor in the air reassuring, I consider it vaguely microbial.

I do not EVEN worry at my job. I'm just like, here I sit, in a giant fountain of germs. Lets hope no one has flesh eating bacteria. It's about all you can do. Oh, some doctors wear masks and stuff, I notice they seem to get sicker more often, to be quite honest.

Never Overfocus, that is my motto but to be fair, I have ADHD.

Anna

I found this interesting:

Summary
Experiments have been reported on the prevention of air-borne infection in white mice, conducted in a large hospital ward (14,000 cubic feet) subdivided into sixteen separate cubicles. Groups of animals were placed in some of the locations, while cultures of the hemolytic streptococcus of Lancefield's Group C or of the virus of influenza A were atomized in one of the cubicles. Both organisms spread rapidly throughout the air of the ward. Ultraviolet irradiation and propylene glycol vapor were compared in their effectiveness as disinfectants of the air.

With heavy concentrations of air-borne streptococci (more than 3,000 cells per cubic foot of air) most of the control mice died from streptococcal pneumonia and septicemia, while propylene glycol vapor protected them completely and ultraviolet irradiation failed to prevent death only in the cubicle containing the atomizer.

November 1942 Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 577–590
Studies on air-borne infection in a hospital ward
II. Effects of ultraviolet irradiation and propylene glycol vaporization upon the prevention of experimental air-borne infection of mice by droplet nuclei

https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(42)80046-3/abstract

 

[ExtremeDooty]

Going to your pain doctor is an oxymoron.
re: "An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. A more general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the OED for 1902."
Perhaps your physician has more problems than you or was not the brightest in his class. Either way, might be time to shop around.

Perhaps I mislead you. Their official title is "Pain Consultants." And I don't even need a gun to get some of the most sought after drugs in the country. Can you imagine what I could get if I pulled out my Armour Pro, blew a big cloud and yelled: "Give me all of your Opioids!!!"

 

[Skeebo]

I leave the CCW home when I go to the doctors, don't want to add any more lbs. at the weigh in.
Chain vape before I go in, to see if it affects the BP. (never has)

Oddly when I smoked cigarettes my blood pressure was extremely low. But the times I've quit (before vaping) my blood pressure is borderline to being high. It's like that now as well...

I'm always doing stuff half acked basswords......

 

[mp25]

Progressives like to rotate the issues they manufacture outrage about. One day it’s the guns, the next day it’s vapor.

I read an article recently about a town near where I grew up that had passed an ordinance banning vaping inside public places. One councilwoman called them a “nuisance”. That’s a dog whistle for these bans being about the fact that vaping looks like smoking, so it’s by definition “bad”.

 

[override137]

That's a doctor I'd think about avoiding (although it seems like he/she's a specialist so maybe no harm)

But a doctor that is so far disconnected with new advances in health that they ban things that help their clients, thats not a well educated person or master of their field

I can see not officially recommending them to people yet, but to take a professional stance that opposes them? hell naw