What about a cab? We’re car-free and that’s what we did when my wife went into labour. I mean, if you’re having an asthma attack, you probably shouldn’t be driving anyway.
Or call an ambulance. In some places, sure, Uber or a taxi is the right choice because you can’t afford the ambulance, but societies without universal healthcare have deeply fucked priorities.
We tend to avoid them at night, because night fares are expensive and there are safety concerns for women (sexism is so fun 🤬). But, in an emergency they are an option we would consider.
If they can walk, they can bike. If they can’t walk, how safe is it for them to drive a car? Calling a taxi or an ambulance is not out of the question.
Please don’t depend on an inhaler as a rescue medicine… If she is using Albuterol then she needs a controller medication to take every day. Asthma can be life threatening; please make sure she gets effective care.
I’m sorry you had to deal with everything and am so glad you were able to drive to help her. She is lucky to have you.
I have asthma, this is soooo true - sometimes it’ll just flare up hard for seemingly no reason. For me, it’s a combination of stress, environmental allergens, and bad food choices.
I have my fluticasone inhaler for daily maintenance, an Albuterol inhaler for attacks, and an epi-pen for when the shit hits the fan. I rarely use the Albuterol inhaler and I’ve never used the epi-pen but they’re good to have. Dying by slow suffocation, panicking all the while, would be just the worst way to go.
And this is why I had to put a new motor in my work truck this last winter. It was cheaper to buy a new motor for a 25yo truck then buy even a used 10yo truck. As someone who needs a work truck I hate the mall trucks just as much as the rest of you.
America has a love affair with pickup trucks. In 2022, the top three best-selling vehicles in America were pickup trucks, and among them, the Ford F-series reigns supreme. The Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. for more than 40 years, and for that reason, it’s a useful proxy for pickups overall.
It’s worth noting that the success of the F-series isn’t due to the overall popularity of pickups. Pickups have only recently become ~20% of the market. They’ve never been the largest market segment.
Instead, for several reasons pickup sales have been concentrated into comparatively few models for decades.
First, we’ve had a 25% protectionist tarrif on foreign-built pickups since the 60s. The excuse for passing it was as retaliation in a trade war with France and Germany over frozen US factory farmed chicken, so it’s called the chicken tax. So there’s a number of foreign cars and SUVs on the market, but very few foreign pickups.
Second, companies like Ford and Chevy focus their pickup sales into fewer models than SUV/car makers tend to. Ford buckets all of the F150, F250, F350, etc. sales into the “F-series”. The F-series includes 2 door and 4 door trucks, long bed, regular bed and short bed trucks, regular trucks and their luxury trucks, etc. The lions share of trucks they sell are F-series.
Pickups have been getting steadily larger and less practical, sure, and the F150 is a great poster child for the trend. But the fact that pickups are consistently best-selling models has much more to do with industry shenanigans than any real American “love affair” with them.
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