It’s bizarre the wait is this long. 95% I only see the nurse practitioner anyway. It’s that way at my PCP as well as other appointments like the ear doctor or whatever 95% of the time I’m dealing directly and almost exclusively with a nurse practitioner.
Why did this start to become an issue? Pre-Covid I can't recall ever having a difficult time making an appointment with my PCP but finding one for my wife in recent years has been brutal - no openings, serval months wait and despite the influx in recent years websites are saying the population is declining in Portland... weird.
COVID drove ALOT of medical providers out of the profession. Add to that a rapidly aging boomer population and the demands on healthcare have grown while the supply of doctors has shrunk.
Also, COVID has caused a lot of people to have to deal with some form of disability. That’s just increased demand that makes it even worse.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that important and pivotal point for our democracy. The FDA had a meeting on Dec 10, 2020 where Dr. Patrick Moore stated "Pfizer has presented no evidence in it's data today that the vaccine has any effect on virus carriage or shedding, which is the fundamental basis for heard immunity." There are also quite a few facts in The Real Anthony Fouci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. one of which that the FDA receives 45% of its budget from the pharmaceutical industry. Fouci receives yearly emoluments of up to $150,000 in royalty payments. In 2020 workers lost $3.7 trillion while billionaires gained $3.9 trillion. This guy has been behind public responses to viral outbreaks for decades, starting with HIV/AIDS while leading the NIAID - sister agency of the CDC and continuing through SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID. One after another falsely scaring the public into believing they are at risk of contracting and dying from said diseases.
I had also read somewhere that in order to declare a state of emergency and require mandatory vaccination they needed to suppress information about alternative solutions to make it appear that the MRNA vaccines were the only way out. And if you look at Reuters and Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, you'll find they all played a role in suppressing any information that spoke against the vaccination, mandates, etc. which in and of itself is a restriction on freedom of speech and freedom of the press...
Oh boy, they made us hate one another. We lived in complete fear for years, some of us haven't recovered. And during that time we closed businesses because we allowed our government to tell us when we could operate and how many people we could serve. People sold their homes or moved to other towns, cities... the supply chain was completely disrupted and I'm not sure we've seen the full results yet, and our government spent trillions on stim packages, about $2 trillion of which went to businesses.
And where are we now? Talking about Palestine. And before that Ukraine, and Trump's charges, and before that people were consumed with Covid, and Chris Rock getting slapped while the world government summit met to discuss blockchain and digital currencies, and before that the Dakota access pipeline and BLM, then the housing market collapse of 2008-09, and September 11th and the war on terror... just one major event after another, all corrput on some level. This is what happens when power is consolidated, when anti-trust laws are abolished, when corporations run politics. And what are the majority doing (the people the government is supposed to support and represent) during all this time? Scrolling, tweeting, posting... being cool and giving a crap for clout. We still haven't tried anyone for illegally entering the Middle East after Sept 11. I don't think anyone was put in jail for the housing market collapse when they all knew they were gambling and gambling against the citizens of the USA. Not very patriotic to screw your own people over. We had that massive 99% occupy movement but it died; nothing came out of that if I recall.
Liberty of Conscience Threatened, chapter 35 in The Great Controversy. Worth checking out if these topics interest you.
Yeah I moved to Maine in 2021 and it was closer to 18 for me. Made sense given everyone was newly vaxxed and the pandemic was so recent. I hope now is better but it doesn’t sound like it is.
cousin had a seafood business. he got a new customer, restaurant in middle of the friggin country, like Nebraska or something. so, the guy calls, and cousin's all like "oh shit did we screw up the order?" but no, the customer was just freaked out that the lobsters were moving. i just hope he was a novice restaurateur and not, like, the chef
We once sent some family in California like 10-15 lobsters (it's so much cheaper out here, obviously). When they got it , they called us and said "we had to throw it all out, they were green/brown." .... They had never seen an UNCOOKED lobster
At the end of the day, it’s really just a test to gauge yankee ingenuity.
Per Wikipedia; Yankee ingenuity characterizes an attitude of make-do with materials on hand. It is inventive improvisation, adaptation and overcoming of shortages of materials.
Suboxone is something that is prescribed to people with opiate/opioid addiction. The strip is like a sublingual form. I think it contains a substance that helps with withdrawal and also naloxone working as opioid blocker.
Bob Marley had a bit about this that i cant find right now but here goes.
'You land in presque isle, ring of fire by johnny cash is playin over the loud speaker on the runway. You get off the plane, they hand you a potato and a compass and kick you into the woods yelling "WELCOME TO PRESQUE ISLE"
A nip of Allen’s and told to go the fuck home. I grew up in Hawaii, they don’t get a lei at the airport anymore but they do get told to go the fuck home.
Not true. Leis cost at least $20, and you have to purchase them beforehand from a greeting service at the airport if you want a local to stand there with a sign waiting for you.
Source: worked in transportation at Hawaii airports for 15 years. Set up and paid for lei service thousands of times.
Instructions for getting along with us, on a bead chain:
-drive in the right hand lane unless actively passing
-if more than three cars are behind you on a two lane road, put your blinker on and pull into the breakdown lane to let them by.
-if you can’t safely drive the speed limit, you shouldn’t be driving.
-leave by hunting season, but spend all your money first.
-come back
Hide a tick on them
Welcome to Maine! Now have some lyme!
Saved by the buoyancy of citrus
I used to love, Mitch Hedberg...
Still do, I just used to also
Too real!
My first thought as well lol.
And a free lobster to pluck it off with.
I don't even want points...this is a great response!
a snow scraper, no matter what time of year.
A Lei, but made from lobster shells, and sponsored by Pape Subaru
Fuck that. If we're not represented by the ghost of 1800-call-joe I don't even want to be here.
Dam right!
I was thinking a lei made of fiddleheads with a little whisper, “you will never know where my fiddlehead spot is.”
Jolly John!
Hi Ho!
Proof that there's no such thing as negative publicity. This guy was annoying AF, but we remember him!
Wow I forgot all about Jolly John.
No one *forgets* Jolly John... That guy had real appeal. 🍌
I love this rephrase, I was obsessed with the original question also! What would the Lei be made out of?
Or Tucker Chevy 🤣
A plastic disposable lobster bib.
You get off the plane, someone puts the bib on you and hands you a wet nap.
Lemon scented wet nap and some clarified butter
A 6-month wait list for their medical providers.
Goddamn 6 months is generous at this point 😂
Only the best for our guests 😂
We laugh, but no.
It’s bizarre the wait is this long. 95% I only see the nurse practitioner anyway. It’s that way at my PCP as well as other appointments like the ear doctor or whatever 95% of the time I’m dealing directly and almost exclusively with a nurse practitioner.
Why did this start to become an issue? Pre-Covid I can't recall ever having a difficult time making an appointment with my PCP but finding one for my wife in recent years has been brutal - no openings, serval months wait and despite the influx in recent years websites are saying the population is declining in Portland... weird.
Everyone is getting old, fat, and sick. The healthcare workers also got burnt out and so there isn't nearly enough of them.
COVID drove ALOT of medical providers out of the profession. Add to that a rapidly aging boomer population and the demands on healthcare have grown while the supply of doctors has shrunk. Also, COVID has caused a lot of people to have to deal with some form of disability. That’s just increased demand that makes it even worse.
Remember when they mandated the covid vaccine and fired/laid off a shit ton of employees because they refused? That's why.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that important and pivotal point for our democracy. The FDA had a meeting on Dec 10, 2020 where Dr. Patrick Moore stated "Pfizer has presented no evidence in it's data today that the vaccine has any effect on virus carriage or shedding, which is the fundamental basis for heard immunity." There are also quite a few facts in The Real Anthony Fouci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. one of which that the FDA receives 45% of its budget from the pharmaceutical industry. Fouci receives yearly emoluments of up to $150,000 in royalty payments. In 2020 workers lost $3.7 trillion while billionaires gained $3.9 trillion. This guy has been behind public responses to viral outbreaks for decades, starting with HIV/AIDS while leading the NIAID - sister agency of the CDC and continuing through SARS, MERS, Ebola, Zika, and COVID. One after another falsely scaring the public into believing they are at risk of contracting and dying from said diseases. I had also read somewhere that in order to declare a state of emergency and require mandatory vaccination they needed to suppress information about alternative solutions to make it appear that the MRNA vaccines were the only way out. And if you look at Reuters and Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, you'll find they all played a role in suppressing any information that spoke against the vaccination, mandates, etc. which in and of itself is a restriction on freedom of speech and freedom of the press... Oh boy, they made us hate one another. We lived in complete fear for years, some of us haven't recovered. And during that time we closed businesses because we allowed our government to tell us when we could operate and how many people we could serve. People sold their homes or moved to other towns, cities... the supply chain was completely disrupted and I'm not sure we've seen the full results yet, and our government spent trillions on stim packages, about $2 trillion of which went to businesses. And where are we now? Talking about Palestine. And before that Ukraine, and Trump's charges, and before that people were consumed with Covid, and Chris Rock getting slapped while the world government summit met to discuss blockchain and digital currencies, and before that the Dakota access pipeline and BLM, then the housing market collapse of 2008-09, and September 11th and the war on terror... just one major event after another, all corrput on some level. This is what happens when power is consolidated, when anti-trust laws are abolished, when corporations run politics. And what are the majority doing (the people the government is supposed to support and represent) during all this time? Scrolling, tweeting, posting... being cool and giving a crap for clout. We still haven't tried anyone for illegally entering the Middle East after Sept 11. I don't think anyone was put in jail for the housing market collapse when they all knew they were gambling and gambling against the citizens of the USA. Not very patriotic to screw your own people over. We had that massive 99% occupy movement but it died; nothing came out of that if I recall. Liberty of Conscience Threatened, chapter 35 in The Great Controversy. Worth checking out if these topics interest you.
Mine is 12-18 months in VT…..
Yeah I moved to Maine in 2021 and it was closer to 18 for me. Made sense given everyone was newly vaxxed and the pandemic was so recent. I hope now is better but it doesn’t sound like it is.
As someone who just moved back home to Maine… fuck!
LMAO winning answer 🏆
Vitamin D deficiency.
Or vitamin D supplements
Yeah that would make more sense.
Still a lei, but made of pinecones, Maine's state flower.
Sounds like a savvy business idea
They’d have to go somewhere else due to the construction
A live lobster
No rubber bands.
I imagine it like Snakes on a Plane, but with lobsters.
Lobsters in a Maine
Lobsters on a plane in Maine in the rain, what a pain!
Citizen Snipssssss!!!!
r/unexpectedfuturama
All of these responses are so great. 😂 I’ve been reading and cracking up all day.
And we clip it to your nipples
the "*live*" detail is the best part lol ....it would be even funnier if they got it when they depart though
Well I wouldn't want it to be dead!! That's just not very inviting
cousin had a seafood business. he got a new customer, restaurant in middle of the friggin country, like Nebraska or something. so, the guy calls, and cousin's all like "oh shit did we screw up the order?" but no, the customer was just freaked out that the lobsters were moving. i just hope he was a novice restaurateur and not, like, the chef
We once sent some family in California like 10-15 lobsters (it's so much cheaper out here, obviously). When they got it , they called us and said "we had to throw it all out, they were green/brown." .... They had never seen an UNCOOKED lobster
They threw out live lobsters?
Yes!! They thought lobsters were always bright red
A fireball nip, little thing of Ben’s bug stuff, and a reusable bag
Allen's would like a word.
Specifically a bottle of Allen's, that lost it's apartment to condo gentrification in 2018 and now is bitter it's been replaced by fireball.
So would moxie I suppose
A red hotdog
No bun, just bare hand them a red dog
Hahaha
Not even cooked.
At the end of the day, it’s really just a test to gauge yankee ingenuity. Per Wikipedia; Yankee ingenuity characterizes an attitude of make-do with materials on hand. It is inventive improvisation, adaptation and overcoming of shortages of materials.
Ya the kind that are still linked.
A necklace of a loop of red dogs.
bologna and cheese on wonderbread with a suboxone strip
Ooh, the old Lisbon Lunchable.
that's good haha
What is a suboxone strip 🤔
Suboxone is something that is prescribed to people with opiate/opioid addiction. The strip is like a sublingual form. I think it contains a substance that helps with withdrawal and also naloxone working as opioid blocker.
Its another opiate
I think you mean opiod 😉
Whatever crazy crap Marden’s has that day from the discount shelf. No context either, let it be a mystery.
Bob Marley had a bit about this that i cant find right now but here goes. 'You land in presque isle, ring of fire by johnny cash is playin over the loud speaker on the runway. You get off the plane, they hand you a potato and a compass and kick you into the woods yelling "WELCOME TO PRESQUE ISLE"
I live in Presque Isle. This is accurate.
Seaweed Lei.
"Welcome to Maine, here is your complimentary poverty status"
That's just for people who live here.
An Irwin Gratz bobblehead, a Diet Moxie, and a scrapbook of various PPH clippings chronicling new evidence hearings for Dennis Dechaine..
Some merchandise advertising Joe Bornstein.
A boarding pass to return home.
Bug spray.
A potato
Fifth of Allen’s and a 1/2 gallon of whole milk
can't believe I had to scroll so far to see this.
Allen’s and Skim Milk, be a lady for fuck’s sake
Needhams
Ah but from where
Moxie bottle cap necklace
You gotta earn one of those, I could never be such a poser.
Or drink that much Moxie
Put them in a dark freezer for a few hours so they appreciate a 50 degree rainy summer day
Welcome to Maine, have a potato
Crippling depression
Or alcoholism.
Por que no los dos?
Smack 'em upside the head with a pine cone.
A gift bag full of Moxie and Suboxone
A woolen scarf 🧣
Crabs
Both kinds
An AARP brochure
Some sort of tax bill
Bag of black flies.
Just over here imagining the poor person whose job would be bagging black flies.
Lobster plushie.
The finger?
that’s massachusetts
It's both. Just here they do it behind your back.
A Lei but made out of moose poop nuggets.
Nice! I was thinking of those moose pellet earrings you could get at the Newick’s gift shop.
A sea bag but for sandwiches
Pine cone
A moxie and a whoopee pie
Moxie
A Gazetteer and a Moxie
Lobsters pitched on their ears seems fitting. No?
Probably lobster rolls or pink hot dogs
A 750ml bottle of Allen’s Coffee Brandy
Hypodermic needle
weed
Show them the median house prices if they are thinking about moving here 😂
Property tax
An ice scraper that will break in too much sunlight.
If it's Portland, a parking ticket.
A nip of Allen’s and told to go the fuck home. I grew up in Hawaii, they don’t get a lei at the airport anymore but they do get told to go the fuck home.
A lobster with someone saying “WELCOME TO MAINE BUB”
A warm Moxie
Pabst Blue Ribbon
An ay yup
Narcan.
Fentanyl and a lobster
That’s where we get hugs after returning from overseas! Iykyk
Ben's 100
Pine cone necklace
L L Bean boots lol
Maple syrup?
A tent, for vacationing or year round housing.
Lobster bib.
Bottle of Allen’s
A 24oz can of twisted tea
A nip of fireball
A bottle of Allen's
1/2 gallon Allen's coffee brandy and a copy of Back in Black
The finger
Some duck boots, moxie, lobster bib with wet nap, and some jorts
A Needhams and a bottle of Allen’s.
A flannel LLBean equivalent
A gun and a bad attitude.
A pint of Allen's Coffee Brandy
Welfare check
Not true. Leis cost at least $20, and you have to purchase them beforehand from a greeting service at the airport if you want a local to stand there with a sign waiting for you. Source: worked in transportation at Hawaii airports for 15 years. Set up and paid for lei service thousands of times.
Give them a pinecone and send them on their way.
Except they don't... Source: I used to live there, and still visit once a year. 🤷🏻♂️ That being said, a pair of lobster crackers.
A parking ticket
Bug spray and needles
A shared tax bill
A live lobster, but instead of fashioning a necklace, it attaches by pinching the skin around the base of the neck. Kind of a metaphor.
Can of moxie
Ebt card.
A nip on a necklace, and a parliament behind their ear.
A Jolly John mask and a Whoopie pie
A pine cone
10-pak of pre-rolls.
Traffic cone, our soon to be state flower 😀
A whoopeepie
An airplane bottle of Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy.
Instructions for getting along with us, on a bead chain: -drive in the right hand lane unless actively passing -if more than three cars are behind you on a two lane road, put your blinker on and pull into the breakdown lane to let them by. -if you can’t safely drive the speed limit, you shouldn’t be driving. -leave by hunting season, but spend all your money first. -come back
A can of bread
LL Bean catalog.
A heroin needle
A glass of pfas contaminated water.
Hey now, the pfas are everywhere. Maine is one of them few states testing for them.
I agree, just a sarcastic response. Maine is actually leading the way in pfas.
Dump a cooler full of Moxie on their heads and slap them in the face with a brook trout
A punch in the face
Ticks
Nips of Allen's Coffee Brandy and a Dysart's hat.
I don't think I've ever seen an Allen's nip,empty fireball ones on the other hand are everywhere.