Medical gear

Tasmanian Tiger is some top-of-the-line gear. I wear their packs regularly. Unpacked they weigh 5 - 7+ lbs, but feel almost like nothing, just air. Amazing engineering.

I have several medical kits in bags, car, and at home.
The one with me is inside a cheap nylon pouch similar to this.

Probably half the people I hike with have some sort of first aid. I blow off carrying a kit because of this.

I usually carry just a SAM Splint and some fabric tape.

Ankle/leg/forearm injuries are more common than any trauma that requires more than a little gauze + tape.
Good improvised splints are harder than people claim.
You’ll need your trekking poles in a sprain/break situation, whether they are for limping or for carrying a victim over bad terrain.

Two sam splints in a group is extra nice.

JIC ! !

I carry an Israeli bandage in my backpack. I’ll probably add Celox again some day.

That is pretty much what I expected.

That’s impressive.

I EDC a small backpack and I have a red zippered pencil bag in it with a homemade FAK. That is just stuff for minor boo boos.

I carry about 6 bandaids of different sizes in my wallet.

In my trucks I have a bigger FAK.

It is easy to get the wrong FAK when everyone that sells ones fill them full on nonsense. Just get a couple of plasters, aspirin in travel packs, neosporin, Israeli bandages, CAT tor., Celox hemostatics, and alco prep pads. Look at a commercial kit, they have thin gauze and other mostly useless items. Now look at a military IFAK. You can see the difference.

Here is an Israeli style bandage.

recently, we have added Narcan to our kits.
the nasal dose is available for free
at the Sheriff’s Department.

The people that need that medicine are of no value to society. Perhaps if you see an overdosed person write a letter to the hospital about it and mail it the next day so they can get medical attention.

‘The people that need that medicine are of no value to society. Perhaps if you see an overdosed person write a letter to the hospital about it and mail it the next day so they can get medical attention.’

People having no value to society is an abhorrent concept. These people have been kicked and downtrodden by the society that they apparently contribute no value to. At the very least when you see a addict sleeping rough ask your self what went wrong what cycle are they trying and failing to break. Ask yourself why don’t they have a safe space to sleep and food to eat?
Billionaires are racing rockets to the moon yet whe have kids sleeping on our city streets going hungry and doing drugs to get through the night.

We failed these people, you, me, Elon and Jeff we are all responsible for this so if I can stop someone having and overdose I will but get angry at the multi billion dollar corporations that pay no tax and force their workers to live on welfare not the downtrodden that are struggling to cope the rough edges of the world.

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They steal from the shops we go to. They steal from their families. They scam and do other crimes. They mix in poison into their drugs which kills people. They work with the government as informers. They have no redeemable qualities.

I feel we are doing them a dissevice by not indefinately inprisioning them or executing them promptly. I understand they have problems but if they are that bad off why keep them around to cause others in society problems? The Chinese figured this out a long while ago.

Sorry if this seems extreme but I live in an area affected by opiods and narcaning them and giving them suboxone so they can stay alive and hooked obviously isn’t helping them.

On a less controversial note…
I carry a first aid kit attached to the molle on my maxpedition pack when I’m working on firework displays. It has stuff that does get used like band-aids, bug repellant and ibuprofen, plus things that aren’t in typical kits like sterile eye wash and burn shield gel.

@Vimespolly thank you for your compassion <3

I’ve spent 20 minutes performing CPR on an unhoused person and not once has the thought of evaluating their ‘worthiness’ crossed my mind. It’s my firm belief that if you’re capable of rescuing human life, be it as a professional or a volunteer, your duty is to rescue human life, not perform selection or exact some form of societal cleansing.

Definitely sad if you think about how one less rocket can save some lives.

Nah, that’s short-term thinking.

It keeps us forever putting out fires, when that R&D instead leads to discoveries how to make things fireproof.

Although technically you are correct, tell that to the people living like dogs with no heat in the NYCHA buildings in NYC.

Ain’t Elon’s fault for that.

And “funny” how if a private landlord would have a building with no heat, The City™ would be all over him like stink on a monkey, even threatening to seize the building and take it over, but when The City™ is itself the owner and lets this happen and continue for months, it’s perfectly fine.