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Obviously that's not an indictment of Fauci.

We're critiquing critiques now? On a completely unrelated note cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

I know some anuses that could do with some vanishing about now

FFS Give it a rest. Fauci was one of the few competent people handling the pandemic. Arguably the only sane voice in that first adminstration.

Trump's presidency has been like political gangrene, spreading and killing everything it touches. Fauci does not deserve this.

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So setting aside whatever Beshear should do, someone should be calling the police to verify McConnell's condition. If he is braindead but still on a ventilator, and his office and his fellow congressmen have been pretending he's still alive all this time, they should all be charged with fraud.

This is something nobody seems to be talking about, because we're all obsessing over the Machiavellian politics of whether the Dems or the Reps benefit from McConnell being AWOL.

My point is - if they have met the criteria of brainstem death, they are spared the decision to allow them to pass, as legally they have *already* passed. We do it this way to give families the time and space to process this.

And any third party purporting to be him or to be presenting him as still alive when legally he was not, and drawing a salary or making public statements on "his" behalf would be committing fraud, which would be ILLEGAL, and should be prosecuted under law.

Because if he were LEGALLY dead but still being kept on a ventilator, the legal ramifications still apply. He can't be drawing a taxpayer funded salary, he can't make public statements about purporting to still be alive and carrying out his functions of his office.

Yes I guess I was splitting hairs - when you said "he wouldn't technically die until his hart stops", that was technically not true if he were truly brain dead. But in terms of McConnell's Senate seat that hair-splitting IS important.

In those situations, if clinicians and family agree to cease life support, death occurs when the heart stops as you say.

The current president has abused the pardon power so flagrantly that future legislatures need to put better guardrails around it, would you agree?

Like so many commenting below, I don't understand how OVER ONE THIRD of Americans still support him. Historians, psychologists and sociologists fifty years from now will still be discussing this - that is, if there *are* historians, psychologists and sociologists fifty years from now.

There are often however situations where patients have obvious irreversible brain injury but do not meet the criteria for brainstem death. Those patients are not dead, but their prognosis is catastrophic. This poses a existential dilemma to clinicians and family over whether to stop life support.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

That may be the case in practical terms but we were taught that if you're diagnosed as brain dead, you're legally dead. That is what we tell the family - and that's important so that they understand turning off life support is not killing their loved one because legally they've already passed on.

Not quite - if he is tested and diagnosed with brainstem death (which is what the lay term 'brain dead' means) he would legally be dead from that point even if he were still on life support. I agree there a cover-up driving speculation - the public should be told (anaesthetist/ex-intensivist here)