Someone needs to learn about cumulative effects.
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Sommeliers spit out the wine that they tell you to drink. Very suspicious. /s
This is such a dumb trope that keeps getting repeated in memes. Dosage size matters.
I think 99% of the people sharing the meme understand it is a joke.
Its a joke here because we don't have an anti-vax community.
If this was Facebook, this meme would be sex and candy for that crowd.
I think 99% of the commenters don't
I think 99% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I think you're 99% maybe right
It's not a very good joke.
Jokes can still be dumb and unfunny.
Most dumb things are unfunny.
Sometimes seemingly dumb things are funny because they make you think a little bit and realize that it seems weird to someone who doesn't understand the context. This one is actually clever because without knowing the context of cumulative effects would be confused by the tech hiding behind a safety shield while telling you it is safe. The humor requires seeing it from someone else's perspective and having the knowledge of why it seems contradictory.
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thanks. I was not sure how to respond to this. I suspect they understand that doctors or more likely the nurse or tech would be exposed to dozens of xrays a day instead of less than one a year but you never know.
This is the internet. You never know if people are serious and if they take you seriously and sometimes not even if you are serious yourself
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Also we probably shouldn't tell them about background radiation.
For the curious a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals. Or if you are very lucky somewhere where both are a problem.
Hell airline crews are classified as radiation workers because the higher doses of cosmic radiation puts them over the threshold of on job exposure .
Someone needs to learn about jokes
This one doesn't work if you understand at even a basic level how x-rays and radiation work.
i understand and thought it was funny
Same
It wasn't a funny joke.
People are upset when I throw a single pebble but when I throw a hand full they suddenly get really mad 🤷♀️
Is it cumulative? Or is it probability — which of course goes up if you shower yourself in radiation multiple times a day?
Radiation is not a matter of chance, but a matter of how much.
Every day, your body will probably generate at least one cell that would be cancerous if it wasn't for your immune system. If that probability goes up slightly as a result of mildly increased radiation that day, it likely won't overload the immune system's capacity to deal with it. If it is overexposed to radiation, eventually the greater probability of cancerous mutations exceeds the immune system's capacity.
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Imagine you're a bartender, and every time someone orders a shot, you have to take one too. One? Totally fine. Two? No problem. A hundred? You're gonna want a bucket (or a lead shield) to dump that shot (or radiation) in
That's what grenadine is for!
My friend, you have just revolutionized the field of radiology
Ahhh you know, just doing what I can to help wherever I can.
Tbf they are taking a lot of X-rays throughout the day with multiple patients. You’re but just one of them.
Eat one meatball sub and you're fine.
Eat 20 meatball subs a day, 5 days a week, for your entire professional career? Not medically advisable.
*Rad techs/radiographers
Also. 1 x-ray no biggie. 10000 x-rays real shit.
Cause for you its probably your only xray for that year.
For the doctor its probably the 50th, of 500, that day.
So they go behind shielding to protect themselves from their massively higher than yours exposure.
So you're saying it'll hurt you a bit. But as long as it's not a ton of bits it doesn't really matter.
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And they give you a lead vest to cover Your balls, but nothing to cover your head.
It's actually really logical.
Your Balls constantly store and generate new DNA, which can easily be destroyed by X-Rays. Your Brain doesn't really.
So your Balls are really vulnerable to X-Ray, while your brain isn't
Also: where pee is stored. And we can't be irradiating that, or have we so soon forgotten?
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Gotta protect vital organs.
Because X-ray can not penetrate bones?
But can it penetrate boners?
It depends how hard boners are.
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They stay back as much for radiation protection as for protection from screaming patients being twisted into pretzels for clearer shots of your scoliosis
Also doctors: ..... we're not using an x-ray ... Instead we're giving you a CT scan, which will give you 50 to 70 times more radiation exposure than one x-ray.
Which isn't very much
It kind of helps to have a 3D image sometimes, especially if you can use radiation-shielding or radioactive substances to contrast veins or organs. They are rarely used for bones of course.
From a comment above "a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals"
So you get a choice between half the radiation from existing on Earth for a year, and a high tech diagnostic image, or... die from whatever disease you might have?
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