Bear in mind that ambulance companies aren’t diverting EMTs away from a heart attack or traumatic amputation to answer your call. They’re much more likely to be diverting EMTs from:
Sitting in an ambulance station or a random parking lot playing Words With Friends and/or developing elaborate company-wide romantic intrigues
Sitting in a hospital EMS room doing giant stacks of paperwork no one will ever read while trying to make dinner entirely out of saltines and condiments
Routine transports of people who have to travel by stretcher, who maybe are not happy to be late, but are hardly going to die from it
Transports which are technically emergencies, but are stuff like vomiting or a sprained ankle where the urgency factor is more like “yeah, you should get that seen” than like “STAT CODE RED CODE BLUE CODE POLKA DOT STAT STAT STAT.”
So if you think you might need an ambulance, call one. You are not going to single-handedly take down the EMS system by daring to use it.
I’m reblogging it but I would be that person wondering “Do I need this enough” until I died.
I have legitimately done this. Please, take care of yourselves.
Furthermore, guys, we have dispatch. Dispatch makes sure that we’re all where we need to be, so you’re not taking an ambulance away from someone who “needs it more.”
Let dispatch worry if an ambulance needs to be somewhere else. You just worry about taking care of yourself.
Most of them time we’re passing the time at the station by trying to find where the firefighters hid the remote /this time/ and listening to scary stories on YouTube. Your safety and health is not an inconvenience.
I once called an ambulance to come one fucking block (our apartment was right by the station and it went WEEE-o and arrived) because I was worried that my boyfriend had alcohol poisoning. Of course as soon as the EMTs were there he woke up and was responsive and I felt like a huge idiot, but he had EMT training and to this day assures me that I 100% did the right thing. A false alarm is not a waste of time. It’s a priceless chance to be sure and they’re happy to do it.
when i was a teenager my dad got chest pains from a hot bath and my mom called an ambulance and the whole time he was like “it’s just heartburn sandy come on, don’t call an ambulance” and he grumbled the whole way to the hospital
when they checked him out, whaddaya know, it was in fact a heart attack, and he had to have the little balloon threaded up from his femoral artery to clear the blockage
if he’d tried to drive himself to the hospital (or god forbid, planned to call our gp the next day and just gone to bed) we’d probably have lost him
I’ve seen posts lumping venom & the fish monster from shape of water together into the same category as pennywise and I must say it is…. Astounding to even imply they are all on the same level whatsoever like….
pennywise fuckers are the lowest of the low like… a monster that is ugly asf and just eats kids & minorities? hard pass. disgusting.
venom fuckers are a little better bc he’s got the whole tongue & teeth thing going for him but yr still gonna get eaten at the end of the day so? u know. unless ur into that
shape of water monster? the good gender neutral fish god? he’s the ONLY valid one out of the bunch you fuck him you get the package deal. get you a fish god that can kill for you, die for you, make you immortal so you can be together forever. get you a fish god with a sensitive side who will treat you R I G H T
I mean, if you wanna talk about ‘fuck, marry, kill’…
this is the funniest possible response to this post it belongs to you now
110% wrong.
Venom doesn’t eat people for funsies, he only eats the brains of bad people, and he’s canonically good with kids
Secondly, the symbiote, once bonded will be 100% loyal to you and will fight to protect you. Feeling sick? Boom, white blood cell booster. Feel underdressed for a formal event? Boom, instant fancy suit. Bought a big ass box of Valentine’s Day chocolate and don’t have anyone to share it? Boom, symbiotes canonically love chocolate.
Venom/Symbiote is waaaaaay higher on the list than the Abe Sapien clone, but enjoy your home constantly smelling of fish, high water bills, and painstaking algae cleaning every couple of weeks I guess.
Seriously, how could you say “no” to this lil guy?
these are all very good points! thank you for educating me on how badly i misranked venom !! fuckable AND friendly
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