Don’t think the U.S. is any better than Britain in caring for its older people. From Dr. Vernon Coleman at lionessofjudah.substack.com:
“When doctors are owned by the Government then the Government’s priorities take over. And so the elderly, who are regarded as an expensive burden, are considered expendable.”
In Britain, it is now official Government policy to ignore the needs of the elderly. This policy is common throughout the world. Doctors and nurses are told to let old people die – and to withhold treatment which might save their lives.
Hospital staff are told to deprive the elderly of food and water so that they die rather than take up hospital beds. Nursing home staff have even been given the right to sedate elderly patients without their knowledge. The only -ism that no one cares about is ageism.
But at what age are patients simply allowed to die? And how old is too old for patients to be resuscitated? At what point does society have the right to say `You’ve lived long enough, now you must die and make way for someone else’? And why should resuscitation be decided by age? It is possible to argue that it would make as much sense to decide according to wealth or beauty. But ageism is now officially accepted. Anyone over 60 is now officially old, though in a growing number of hospitals the cut off age for resuscitation is 55 or even 50.
We live in a politically correct world but the elderly don’t count – particularly if they are white and English. Report after report after report shows elderly patients being left in pain, in soiled bed clothes. Elderly patients in hospital are ignored by staff and left to starve to death, denied even water if they cannot get out of bed and fetch it themselves.
I plan on sticking around like the Bee Gees so the gut busting laughs are good as the Brave New World digital Tech Bros AI panopticon wipes out.
Dayam watching the temp drop now down to 2 degrees.
This just in from The Bee Gees:
Stayin’ Alive
Abuse my elderly and die. Just saying.
Keith Richards has joined the chat.
Keith Richards has joined the chat
It is quite logical on the govt’s part and has nothing to do with the economy.
“Son I am over 70, my days are behind me. It bothers me not if I lose today, though it will be with fury. But are you willing to trade all your tomorrows in the off chance that I get lucky? Well are you?”
I can’t run worth a darn these days, but I can probably take 4-5 before my postion is over run. I will let those that can, retreat if it comes to that. That is what the govt does not desire.
In a few weeks, I turn 73yo.
If they whack me, everybody loses everything I know, the ‘a library burns’ analogy.
Who will repair our aircraft, who will fly our helicopters.
Who will fabricate our surgical equipment, who will guide the hands of beginning welder-fabricators.
Who will sniff the air then predict the weather for the next week.
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Eliminating me infantilizes our next generations… in perpetuity.