Posted: 4/23/2013 7:54:01 AM EDT
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http://www.freep.com/article/20130423/NEWS07/304230066/Boston-Marathon-casualty-count-spikes
The count of people treated in area hospitals for injuries from last week's bombing has risen sharply to 282, according to the Boston Public Health Commission. Earlier estimates were about 170. The commission says dozens of victims waited to go to the hospital for minor wounds or symptoms that they thought would go away on their own. |
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I understand actual injuries, but "symptoms"? I wonder how many are real, or "Get on the upcoming gravy train" types? or will be using it for false glory at the bars, same douchebags as all the "NYF at 9/11, Seals, EOD, etc..." Yup. That thought crossed my mind, too. 
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All I gotta say is that when the list of the people missing at the Twin Towers on 9/11 was posted online, my nephew was on it.
He wasn't even in New York and is still alive. Having said that, I understand that some people might feel worse days after the event. I was in a car wreck and taken to the emergency room, treated and released. I felt worse 4 days later than I did the night of the accident. About that time I went to my family doctor for more treatment. |
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I understand actual injuries, but "symptoms"? I wonder how many are real, or "Get on the upcoming gravy train" types? Lots of people with eardrum problems. Pain/ringing that hasn't gone away. That's my guess anyway. I consider those actual injuries, not symptoms. But I'm no doctor 
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I understand actual injuries, but "symptoms"? I wonder how many are real, or "Get on the upcoming gravy train" types? Lots of people with eardrum problems. Pain/ringing that hasn't gone away. That's my guess anyway. Yeah, a marathon is not exactly a hot spot for free loaders. |
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I understand actual injuries, but "symptoms"? I wonder how many are real, or "Get on the upcoming gravy train" types? Lots of people with eardrum problems. Pain/ringing that hasn't gone away. That's my guess anyway. Yeah, a marathon is not exactly a hot spot for free loaders. Tell that to the jackets. |
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Can't sue anyone unless you have a paper trail. This. Reminds me of whenever we had a city bus involved in an accident at work. You'd have to immediately put a cop at both bus door otherwise the amount of people on the bus would triple in seconds. I'm picturing one of those busses in Asia with people riding on the roof.
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I understand actual injuries, but "symptoms"? I wonder how many are real, or "Get on the upcoming gravy train" types? Lots of people with eardrum problems. Pain/ringing that hasn't gone away. That's my guess anyway. That was my thinking too. There's also the possibility of other effects from the bomb blast. I understand that terrorists aren't shy about using chemical or biological weapons in combination with their bombs weapons of mass destruction. For example, they've been known to add rat poison to bombs. Rat poison is an anti coagulant. Get hit with that, and you bleed more than you normally would from an identical wound, or so the theory is. So I wonder if their bombs did in fact contain any extra nasty surprises, might we actually be seeing people who were legitimately hurt by the weapons? It wouldn't surprise me. On another note, if bombs are now "weapons of mass destruction" does this mean that not only did our troops find tons of WMDs in Iraq (In addition to the biological and chemical weapons they found, admittedly in small quantities, and the news networks forgot to report...), but they found tons WMDs in Afghanistan, and were attacked by WMDs on a daily basis? |