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holy trinity

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Vanessa Lubach (British, based Norwich, Norfolk, England) - Hector, Linocut

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kelpforestdwellers]

healthy people, do you understand that many US state governments are officially gearing up to murder disabled people on your behalf?

i wish i were exaggerating.

New York state, for example, has implemented a policy that they will take ventilators away from people who needed them BEFORE COVID if they come to the hospital.

please read that again. if you needed a ventilator to breathe before this pandemic, they will take it away from you if you seek medical care.

a committee who never meets the patient will then decide who gets the ventilators based on 'likelihood of survival' and this will be reassessed every 48 hours. if you don't meet their standards, they extubate you and you die.

there's a word for deliberately leaving people without lifesaving medical care. the word is 'murder.' no matter how bad it gets, i can't seek medical care. do you understand how that feels? my choices are: die at home, or face 'fatal extubation.'

healthy people, are you happy to survive by murdering others? if not, you must stand up and tell your state government not to do this on your behalf.

[myfootyrthroat]

Is there a source for this?

[kelpforestdwellers]

it comes from a very long document, the New York state ventilator allocation plan.

this twitter thread summarizes some of the relevant parts.

[kelpforestdwellers]

two weeks ago: "don't worry, only vulnerable people will die!"

now: "... because we will do everything in our power to ensure they do."

[sophist-sophia]

Sounds a bit like euthanasia by omission, except worse cause someone is actively deciding to take away lifesaving ventilators from people who needed them before COVID19.

[kelpforestdwellers]

right, you're so close! there's actually already a word for 'involuntary euthanasia via removing medical care from someone you know will die without it': murder.

[body5000-deactivated20180929]

im 12 years old sitting on my bed reading it’s midnight it’s summer my window is open the crickets are very loud but very soothing my room smells dusty and warm and no one else exists. im 12 years old. the feeling never goes away.

[cheryllclayton]

[doeofdevotion]

[valtsv]

[jlassijlali]

“Hmm I wonder who the main character is”

[malglories]

“Fairy tales are more than moral lessons and time capsules for cultural commentary; they are natural law. The child raised on folklore will quickly learn the rules of crossroads and lakes, mirrors and mushroom rings. They’ll never eat or drink of a strange harvest or insult an old woman or fritter away their name as though there’s no power in it. They’ll never underestimate the youngest son or touch anyone’s hairpin or rosebush or bed without asking, and their steps through the woods will be light and unpresumptuous. Little ones who seek out fairy tales are taught to be shrewd and courteous citizens of the seen world, just in case the unseen one ever bleeds over.”

— S.T. Gibson  (via asteriads)

[phillip-bankss]

worio

[guapular]

[asexualveganmystic-deactivated2]

Is he like the opposite of Bob Ross?

[bwansen]

Yes.

[etirabys]

Dark Bob Ross show me the self expression of the lost & damned

[gahdamnpunk]

Lmfaaooooo Norway just called the US a dusty ass bitch and they ain’t wrong

[systlin]

I mean, as someone in the USA, they ain’t wrong

[tombliboos]

Joe Biden using the Italian NHS as an example against universal healthcare *at this particular moment in time* is everything I need to know this fucker is worse than Donald Trump.

I want to clarify something because there are many Americans on the internet and it seemed that neither Biden nor Sanders have adequate understanding of the situation, that is why Sanders could not counter attack properly to Biden's disgraceful remarks.

First, no healthcare system in the world is well-equipped to deal with a massive influx of patients, let alone many requiring intensive care because we are sick from a virus we have no cure or antibodies for.

Second, the funding for Italian NHS has been cut dramatically (approx 37 billion over 10 years) in the name of neoliberal policies, with the blessing of the European Union pushing for cutting the public and outsourcing healthcare to privates.

Third, the Italian NHS is decentralized. There are 20 regions in Italy and each one manages its own healthcare services. This has been a problem since ever because poorer regions = worse healthcare and decentralized system = no coordination for national emergencies.

Fourth, we are managing as best as we can DESPITE the cuts. There has been executive government mismanagement at the beginning and people partyin' and wildin' even though corona was around, which did not help.

Fifth, DESPITE everything Italy consistently ranks among Top 5 in Europe and world. America is, like, #37 or sumn. No healthcare system is without problems, the American one is just too insane to sustain. Whether universal healthcare works or not pretty much depends on how much funding it gets.

Sixth. Cutting funds to public healthcare is no less of a violence than lynching an immigrant or denying abortion. Cutting funds to public services, healthcare on top of everything, is violence. It's a violence against those who cannot afford to go private. It's a violence against those who rely on it to fucking live. Proper funding of public services is a way to ensure equality. Neoliberalism is not the lesser evil. Neoliberalism IS the evil.

[popepauljohn]

[captain-price-official]

Gillian all like

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[morefunthanb4]

[passe-the-ketchup]

let them out