it s exciting, and going to be much better than the psycho surgery, you know in the 1940s and 50s. what do you think, kara? i think it s really interesting. and i think we re probably the research is limited is the problem of knowing why certain people eat or certain people abuse drugs. we like to put them all under an umbrella of, there s something wrong with their dopamine system or these people specifically don t get enough neurotransmitter that tells them they re full or their stomach is not telling them the right signals. but, you know, everybody s pathology is very different. and until i think that we can accurately diagnose why people have these addictive behaviors, it s going to be difficult because we re going to be working with a one size fits all treatment. let me say, cara, as a follow-on to that. i deal with a lot of people that end up losing all the weight and they re not right emotionally after they lose the weight. there s all kinds of reasons the weight was ther
and 50s. what do you think, cara? i think it s really interesting. and i think where probably the research is limited is the problem of knowing why certain people eat or certain people abuse drugs. we like to put them all under an umbrella of, there s something wrong with their dopamine system or these people specifically don t get enough neurotransmitter that tells them they re full or their stomach is not telling them the right signals. but, you know, everybody s pathology is very different. and until i think that we can accurately diagnose why people have these addictive behaviors, it s going to be difficult because we re going to be working with a one size fits all treatment. let me say, cara, as a follow-on to that. i deal with a lot of people that end up losing all the weight and they re not right emotionally after they lose the weight. there s all kinds of reasons the weight was there and those things have often not been dealt with. don t they become more addicted when
there s a kind of shame-inducing hangover that comes from these things. i mean, freedom fries? history has not looked very kindly upon that whole episode. even the guy who came up with freedom fries in the first place, republican congressman walter jones, later regretted having done so, saying, i wish it had never happened. this whole national freakout thing is not new, either. this is not just a post-9/11 thing. we ve actually done this quite a bit in american history. we had the chinese exclusion act in the 1880s. we had japanese internment after pearl harbor. we had mccartyism during the heart of the red scare back in the 1940s and 50s. those were all far more destructive than this current unpleasantness. and what unites all these episodes is that in retrospect we look back and think, you know what, that was a really bad idea. that was actually really embarrassing. it s like waking up from a really bad bender, when you ve done some really shameful things, and finding out the pict
that s in the purple and the maroon. moderate flooding is occurring in 51 gauges. that s an inda that s an ind. this is 12-18 to 24 inches of snow. and all of this snow has to melt. this gallons of water just waiting to happen. temperatures in the 40s and 50s the next several days so we are talk about rapid snow melt. watching the red river at fargo north dakota. look at the river rise. the projected rise. by saturday there is therd stage at there is the record stage at 40 feet. that s major flood stage. that s when damage will occur and evacuations will certainly take place and people are just trying to protect their
that look, anyone that hears that, they re concerned. right. and i think they should be concerned, erin. i start every one of my days with looking at our list of admissions from the night before. i go through the age and comorbidities and as i run that list quickly, what strikes me the most are 50% of them are just like me. parents, have young kids orchids of college age in their 40s and 50s. i have more people in our covid units now than i ve ever seen who i would have considered totally healthy, and that s just a striking difference from last year where we talked about i have a 40-year-old, i ve seen a 23-year-old who gets sick, now half the unit is that age. we re also seeing and it s just incredibly unfortunate is we re seeing a lot of death in that age group, and that s not something we saw before. we saw those people have long haul covid and see them take weeks to get better but to go through that with our peers and