What is happening with Clarence Thomas

[montanacowboy]

I haven’t seen anything

[SoonerPride]

1. He's not dead

Yet

[Maeve]

4. Hope springs eternal in the human breast

[brush]

19. Wouldn't it be something if Joe Biden gets to appoint another...

SCOTUS justice in quick succession? Republican heads would just about explode.

[shanti]

33. Be still my heart n/t

[Demovictory9]

39. They would claim that dems killed him

[brush]

40. They might. IMO it would be all that bile stored up in him...

from never saying anything in SCOTUS sessions. And a little bit of payback for the Anita Hill smearing.

[lunatica]

47. Either him or Hillary.

[dclarston13]

53. Biden nominating Hillary for SC

Would be the ultimate distraction. Heads would explode!

[lunatica]

70. It would be a veritable fireworks display!

[blueinredohio]

20. Damn!

[jcgoldie]

34. ...

*crosses fingers*

[PoliticAverse]

2. He's apparently still in the hospital. n/t

[mountain grammy]

3. Evening news said he's improving

damn.

[Doc Sportello]

5. What a terrible thing to say

That he's improving. Not the damn.

[UTUSN]

13. Hah!

[Celerity]

32. lolololol +1

[Doc Sportello]

50. Gosh I loved that shipping container house

I want one!

[Celerity]

51. Contact info

https://manstham.com/about/

MÅNS THAM

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Visit our office:

Döbelnsgatan 79, Vasastan (T-Odenplan Stop)

Mail:

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[e-mail]

Tel:

[phone]

[lunatica]

48. LOL!

[MyMission]

69. Maybe it's fake news

Can't trust MSM, and certainly can't trust rethugs who give them news to report.

He's still in the hospital... that's significant even if they say he's getting released soon.

[montanacowboy]

6. Double damn

Thanks

[Greybnk48]

38. They said he was going home today on last nights news, now it's

in a few days. I'm still hopeful (and I don't care how awful that is. He's awful and so is his wife. They're both nuts and evil).

[mountain grammy]

55. I think if not for nutty Ginni he would be retired..

and the bribes of course. This Court is the face of American corruption.

[Greybnk48]

66. I agree on both fronts. n/t

[NCjack]

7. I think he is taking a GQP-forced medical vacation, so his

buddies in the Senate hearing for Judge Jackson can go really low in their attack on her.

They wouldn't want to get so anti-Black that he would be forced to defend her. Best he is absent.

[Hekate]

15. Has he ever felt forced to defend another Black person? nt

[NCjack]

17. You got me in a logical trap. No, to my knowledge, he has not.

[Hekate]

43. IIRC from all those decades ago, he has been a very privileged person from birth. Not money...

…but by his position in his family. An only child. No cousins, if I recall. Just parents, aunts, uncles — all of them with all their expectations focused on this one boy. He knew he was special.

He did not disappoint, either. He achieved.

But the person who wrote the bio made this point: in his mind he knew his specialness and seemed to believe he had gotten where he was on his own. In fact, he had an entire extended family focused on his opportunities for achievement and lifting him up.

Did he ever reach down his hand and pull someone else up? Well, he has his Court clerks, so who actually knows.

It’s funny how some things stick in the mind.

[Brainfodder]

8. I got that Susan Collins level of whatchamacallit?

Satan/KARMA must be awfully busy lately and apologize for the delays?

[QED]

9. Maybe this will be his "out"

He can retire for health reasons to avoid scrutiny of ethical issues raised by his wife's involvement in J6.

[dchill]

21. He's on the Supreme Court.

There's no scrutiny.

[Me.]

10. I Think He's Looking For A Way Out

he and his wife are in too deep and he's looking for an escape route. What better way to do so for reasons of illness rather than anything else.

[QED]

11. GMTA!

Simultaneously expressing the same thoughts...make it so, Clarence!

[Me.]

25. ...

if you get my drift

[Zeitghost]

37. Escape from what?

I doubt we have the votes in the House and I know we don't in the Senate.

[Walleye]

12. This would be a good time for him to retire, before his wife gets him in more trouble

Health is a great excuse for retirement

[Effete Snob]

16. What possible trouble is he in?

He’s not going to be impeached.

[Walleye]

18. He's in trouble with his wife, maybe. I think she's a white supremacist

[dchill]

23. He's okay with it.

[Walleye]

26. Yes it does seem like that

[Effete Snob]

14. Nobody's business

He’s sick. If he gets better, we’ll find out. If he doesn’t, we’ll find out.

But he’s entitled to the same privacy as anyone else in the meantime.

Nobody is going to be relaying minute-by-minute accounts for the morbid curiosity of people who want him dead.

[JoeOtterbein]

24. Thank you...

...for providing a reminder of our law:

HIPAA Privacy Rule
The Privacy Rule standards address the use and disclosure of individuals’ health information (known as “protected health information”) by entities subject to the Privacy Rule. These individuals and organizations are called “covered entities.” The Privacy Rule also contains standards for individuals’ rights to understand and control how their health information is used. A major goal of the Privacy Rule is to ensure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public’s health and well-being. The Privacy Rule strikes a balance that permits important uses of information while protecting the privacy of people who seek care and healing.

[Walleye]

27. Yes because I'm sure Justice Thomas would want to protect the health privacy of,say a pregnant woman

He doesn’t much believe in health privacy when it comes to women

[JoeOtterbein]

28. So one wrong...

...makes it ok do do another wrong?

[Walleye]

29. Well we're not talking about making a law that would force Justice Thomas to discuss his health

[JoeOtterbein]

31. Good. nt

[Captain Zero]

42. Can we sue anyone helping him to carry out

His healthcare wishes in conjunction with his doctor's consultation?

[Walleye]

46. That's it exactly. I lost Internet for a couple hours here

[dpibel]

30. Who's asking for a HIPAA violation?

He's a public figure, the health of whom has major ramifications for the country.

Nobody's saying, "Why won't his doctors tell us everything!"

But the Court might be more forthcoming about his condition.

I mean, seriously: When Trump was in the hospital with the Covid, there were updates (true or false) on his condition.

And nobody said, "BUT THE HIPAAAAAAAAA!"

Because all it does is say that doctors can't talk out of school.

Not that nobody has an obligation to disclose vital information.

[fescuerescue]

54. HIPAA is a restrictions on the caregivers

It's not a restriction on the patient.

If the patient wants to discuss his or her medical condition, it's not illegal.

[lagomorph777]

59. HIPAA's not a restriction on us. We can make optimistically morbid speculations all day long.

That's completely fine.

[fescuerescue]

72. Right. It's the classy thing after all.

[Effete Snob]

62. Correct, and why would he want to?

We got updates about, e.g. Trump (and false ones btw) because he authorized them.

I sincerely doubt that either Thomas or his family are interested in making public pronouncements on his minute-by-minute status for the satisfaction of people who want to see him dead.

It's pretty obvious the patient doesn't want his condition disclosed beyond what he has authorized.

[BlackSkimmer]

61. This. nt

[Polybius]

22. He's got great care

He should be fine. I'm sure he can't wait to go home.

[left-of-center2012]

35. It was on the abc, CBS evening News

He has flu-like symptoms which they say are not covid and is receiving intravenous antibiotics.
He hopes to be out in a couple days.

[MFM008]

36. sepsis is very hard to

get a handle on, that's what it sounds like. My mom had it twice.
its probably what killed her even after a LOT of antibiotics including vancomycin
directly into her juggler vein. It came right back within a few weeks.
started as a UTI.

[Hekate]

45. How awful. I'm so sorry.

[getagrip_already]

41. They don't give you iv antibiotics for flue.....

They give it to you to fight a bacterial infection. Usually a serious one.

If it is sepsis, it isn't good for his outlook.

[Hekate]

44. Interesting. I've only had IV antibiotics once, for a ruptured appendix that had been leaking awhile

… before it really blew. Was in the hospital for 5 days. But I was a lot younger then, not in my 70s like he is.

[onenote]

58. The CDC disagrees with you.

The CDC recommends, as one possible course of treatment, IV treatment for at-risk (including older) patients with flu-symptoms.

Just a couple of weeks ago, the father of a friend was admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms and administered IV antibiotics.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/antivirals/summary-clinicians.htm

[Deminpenn]

60. There would be a blood test to determine

what kind, if any, antibiotics are needed. Overuse of antibiotics is what led to drug-resistant bacteria.

[getagrip_already]

63. Antivirals are different than antibiotics........

The cdc is recommending antivirals.

Antibiotics treat bacteria, not virus.

[RobinA]

65. My Father,

a physician back in the day, always told us not to let anybody give us IV antibiotics. According to him, if you are conscious enough to object you don't need them IV.

[getagrip_already]

67. My father was a physician as well....

He used to say "never go into a hospital. They will kill you".

Very much old school.

[Deminpenn]

49. FTR

The life expectancy at birth for all Af-Am males in the US is about 73 years (Thomas will be 74 in June). The life expectancy for Af-Am males reaching age 65 is about 82.

[DFW]

52. I fear he'll recover to the point where he can resume work

His wife knows what kind of justice would replace him. She would get a Hollywood make-up artist to make herself look exactly like him, and a voice change operation, and take his place if she had to, in order to prevent Joe Biden from naming his replacement.

[USALiberal]

56. Google t!

[BSdetect]

57. He would hardly be missed as a contributor to scotus. What a farcical member he has been

[area51]

64. Perhaps he's

napping.

[Mysterian]

68. Hopefully something very serious and final

I'll leave it at that.

[mindfulNJ]

71. He'll be fine.

Only the good die young.