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Vasectomy: The week before surgery
- Avoid aspirin products for a minimum of forty-eight hours prior to your procedure.
- Make sure you talk to your doctor about any other medications you may be taking.
- If you wish, you can obtain a prescription for a mild oral anti-anxiety medication before the procedure.
Birth: The nine months before labor
- Avoid all medicines and enjoyable foods.
- Make sure you listen to the copious amounts of unasked-for advice and steel yourself from the dirty looks you will get in line at the coffee shop. Feel guilty every time you eat a hamburger instead of poached salmon. Also, every time you eat salmon, too, because of the mercury.
- If you wish, you can google things that are making you anxious, which will, of course, at minimum, treble your feelings of anxiety. Also, being anxious is bad for the baby.
Vasectomy: The day of surgery
- by Aeon Video
Top House Democrats have shown a willingness to work with the Freedom Caucus to block progressive reforms.
The post Reps. Adam Schiff and Jim Jordan Killed Mass Surveillance Reform in 2020. Will They Do It Again? appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Quinnehtukqut McLamore

The innovative strategies used to vaccinate Juárez residents from across the Southern border offers a blueprint for how borderland cities can manage public health crises.
- by Andrei A Buckareff
The real problem confronting European manufacturing is not the threat of factory closures. It is that, compared to the United States and China, Europe has fallen far behind in the race to accumulate, and benefit from, the cloud capital that represents the future of profit in industries like electric cars and green energy. ATHENS – […]
The post Is Europe Deindustrialising? – Project Syndicate appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.
The post Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation appeared first on scheerpost.com.