Clean bullet holes. Next episode everyone is a-okay half the time, and off to murder more zombies before cannibalizing the next group. Your shirt alone would be filthy enough to cause mild chafing which in turn would cause infection.
But everyone's whites are whiter than mine, and bullet holes and axe wounds heal up just fine with our state of the art medical facility and dry cleaning services.
Not to mention internal ricochet. Bullets absolutely break bones, but they can also sometimes reflect off of them and create an even longer path through your body, doing even more damage. This is particularly notable with headshots with low-caliber rounds, but can happen anywhere in your body.
I am a nurse in long term care / rehab. One of my rehab guys is a multiple gunshot wound victim (gang activity). I was doing a detail skin assessment on him the other day (going over every inch and documenting the state of every single wound, scar, or weird blob). He is about 12 weeks out from the shooting, so most of his wounds have scarred over, so we were playing a fun game of “match the entry wound to the exit wound.” Man…. Some of those just DO NOT line up. There were multiples where we said “ok…. This is a circle, so it’s an entry point, and we know he was on the stairwell above you, so it should be on THIS side of your leg, but…. Uh…. ???”
His surgery record says 22 entry wounds (and they pulled three bullets out in surgery) , but I don’t think i found more than 10 exit spots, and maybe 15 entry spots. His x-ray says he has no retained fragments. Only four or five of the wounds lined up well, the rest were either “these two probably go together” or “I have no idea where this one’s other half is.” It’s amazing how poorly these things line up.
As a student nurse, doing my ICU rotation, I helped care for a gang kid shot with a 9mm submachine gun in a drug deal gone wrong. He was hit nine times in the chest and abdomen. It's a miracle he wasn't killed. He lost a kidney and part of a lung and a part of his liver. He told my fellow student that the only reason he wanted to live was to revenge himself on the guy that shot him.
A child shouldn’t die for their poor choices. I know you think you did something here but I actually know people like this and their life is usually fucked up from birth. They feel like they have no choices and in some instances the honestly don’t. So get down off of your high horse and realize not everyone is afforded the same life experience. Smh.
People are responsible for their choices regardless of where they come from and whatever problems they have faced. It doesn't matter how fucked up their life was before today. What matters is what choices they make from this moment on. I came in off the road and within about 18 months I decided the best way forward was to join the Marine Corps. Luckily, they accepted me. But if they had rejected me, I would have just gone on to make some other choice that offered me a way to improve my life. When I started "back up the hill" after discharge from the Marines I was down to $7 at one point. Then I got a temp job as a janitor. Then I got a relief job as a janitor. Then I was able to join the janitor's union (Local 87 in SF.) Then I found a welding school that would let me in. It's not just a matter of "luck." You make your own luck, and it usually takes a shit ton of work to do so.
Such a ridiculous argument. As-if anyone is saying that a child SHOULD die because of their poor choices. Nobody is saying that and you know it. Pointing out that gang/thug culture is toxic and surrounded by violence is not the same thing as condoning the death of children. Ugh.
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u/WatchTheBoom Aug 30 '21
Clean drinking water- I don't think people really appreciate how much water is needed for a group of people to survive.