• 00:00 Boom in cycling around London has led to a spike in violent bike robberies.
• Former pro cyclist shares her traumatic experience of being attacked twice, leading to PTSD.
• Regent Park in central London is a hotspot for violent attacks on cyclists, with 90% feeling unsafe, according to a local club survey.
• Over 700 bike thefts involving violence or threat reported across London in the last year.
• Victim recounts a terrifying incident where he was beaten and had his bike stolen by a gang in East London.
• Campaigners call for increased police efforts, prioritization, and coordination to address the rising attacks on cyclists.
• Metropolitan Police claims the majority of bike journeys occur without incident but acknowledges the need to convince victims that cycling alone is safe in the capital.

We don't know if Covid vaccine reduced all cause mortality. We don't know...

https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab707/6353927

Mpg2022
I'm a cancer and reconstructive surgeon. The nature of my subspecialty means that I have a better working knowledge of muscle anatomy than just about any other physician or surgeon outside my subspecialty. In the deltoid, the large veins are only found on the deep aspect of the muscle where the blood supply enters the muscle (ie: the neurovascular hilum). The large vessels arborise very quickly into much, much smaller and finer branches such that nearer the muscle surface (the area where most IM injection needles would get to), there are few if any veins of sufficient size that cannulation could occur leading to an inadvertant intravenous injection. This risk is reduced further if the site is pinched during needle entry (collapses the blood vessels).

That said, I have never understood why present day training seems to advise against aspiration prior to intramuscular injection in both medical and nursing courses. Perhaps I am a bit of a dinosaur (graduated medical school in 1995), so I still do it the traditional way. I know full well that the likelihood of inadvertant IV injection with the short, fine needles (as used with Covid-19 and flu vaccination) is practically zero. However, it does no harm to aspirate, seems entirely logical and sensible; and is hardly a huge extra task in the process. I have seen enough freak events happen over my many years of work that I rather not take any chances. I also do not understand the seeming active resistance that some medical and nursing practitioners have when asked by patients to aspirate prior to IM injection. There's no need to be difficult for something so simple and if it affords the patient a measure of reassurance, surely we should just do so rather than be a**hats about it.

Sorry for my rather long post.

A USC professor of molecular microbiology and immunology ​explains why takeout is likely safe and how to make it even safer from COVID-19.

Stay calm
Don't run (like other cats, attracted to motion)
Avoid bending down or crouching.
Stare them down (w/ bears, avoid eye contact but w/ lions...stare them down).
Raise voice and speak firmly
If they approach, show you are BIG--raise arms and trekking poles, open coat
Clap hands, throw stone/stick in general direction
If attack, fight for your life (not like w/ grizzly where you play dead) FIGHT!!!
Protect head and neck
Aim for face or throat

Perhaps a little crass to start, The Yankee Marshal offers a logical philosophy for those choosing to carry a firearm. Excellent points all!