HEMODIEALYSIS Nancy marked the end of several things — Not of using my abilities, but of some wavering I was having around them. Nancy was a nice person, and just doing her job (representing her constituents) as best as she could. The bill we just shot down would have enabled more of her constituents to have dialysis, at a risk of medical complications. Deciding amongst those tradeoffs should be done in a public forum, and not in the smoke-filled (metaphorically) Hoyst trips with Nancy. It is true that the bill put us vampires at a premium (more dialysis… more needed vampires), but I believe that could have been addressed in other ways if Amasa had not decided to crush the bill. Based on the Nancy assignment by Amasa, I decided to change a number of things. First, I stopped telling Dr. A about any new abilities. Second, I standardized on ‘Only use on ass****s’ principle: I try to actively avoid influencing or harming anyone that is not an ‘ass****’. Especially if I don’t consent to the goal, or just can find an alternative approach. Third, I started my v-wan (vampire widearea-network) project. • As Dr. A and I discussed, — there are tens of thousands of vampires / slaves. But I know less than a dozen. How is that possible? My guess is that the hospitals and clinics do not want us to know each other. It could be we are too valuable and they don’t want us negotiating a better contract or getting poached. As it is now, I make Amasa happy or I don’t exist. I have no idea how to contact someone at the Mayo Clinic or Cedar Sinai to get into their ‘V5’ equivalent program. The hospitals may even have formal relationships barring poaching. Google, Apple, and others conspired with each other to prevent competitive wages… until they were caught and paid several hundred million to avoid going to trial. We vampires are like employees who have life-long non-compete clauses. Or possibly more descriptively, well-treated slaves.
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