Text 29109, 105 rader
Skriven 2015-11-20 19:06:53 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 29092 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: Apologies for not performing properly the last weeks
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Hello Björn,

 BF> I must apologise for not performing the usual way lately.

Best wishes to you and Anita, for a full and speedy recovery
for you both.  Now for today's rant -

Not accepted.  A guy has to do what a guy has to do.
Especially when duty calls.  You know that.  I know that.
Everybody else knows that.

 BF> My wife has had a hip joint replacement surgery the other day, and it has
 BF> taken all my attention.

Excuses, excuses.  When duty calls, DO YOUR DUTY!
No need for excuses or apologies.  Just do what you
have to do.  That is an order.  Unnerstan'?

 BF> I've been driving her the 160km to and fro the hospital where the
operation
 BF> was to be performed twice. First for the examination and the second time
 BF> for the actual operation.

Real men never complain about doing their duty.  They
just do it.  Regardless of the cost to themselves.  As
a guy, you should know this.  You think Thor shirked
his duty?  Odin would have tanned his hide for sure and
stolen his thunder had he even harbored the thought!

 BF> Now (18th November) the operation was successfully performed, and I got my
 BF> beloved Anita home (160km later) safe and sound. All it takes now is at
 BF> least six weeks of recovery for her new hip joint to work properly.

Uh-oh.  The God of Thunder is about to transform into
the Dynamic Duo.  Talk about kick some butt.  Loki better
watch out, and better think twice ...

 BF> Alas, as you can all hopefully understand, I have more urgent matters to
 BF> take care of than Fidonet.

Yeah.  Gotta prepare a Cajun Turkey for Thanksgiving ...

 BF> And, hey, I can't help pointing out that the entire surgery cost us only
the
 BF> ordinary EUR30 in registration fee -- we even get the 2x160km travel cost
 BF> covered by our welfare system.

Access to quality health care is the most basic of all
human rights.  If something is not affordable, it is not
accessable.

In the USA, those who have "good" insurance can afford
to pay for access to quality health care.  Those who lack
such coverage have to beg, and hope somebody is kind enough
to pick up the tab.  "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" is a
song that was written long ago, but the words are just as
true today as they were then.

The dead have no rights.  And yet even the dead are trampled
on in this country.  Especially those who die homeless.  Not
only are they denied access to quality health care, they are
not able to get a decent burial when they die.  If the state
is unable to locate relatives who are willing to claim the
body, the state cremates the remains and spreads the ashes
on an empty lot in a cemetery, and sends the closest next
of kin a bill in hopes of receiving payment.

Every dead person deserves a marker.  Even the homeless.

A marker shows the world "Kilroy was here" and will be remembered.
What a senseless and thoughtless act, to cremate the remains
of the homeless and spread their ashes to the wind, leaving no
marker as a remembrance of who they were.  How cruel a world
we have become.

Undocumented workers (illegal aliens) who die in this country
have no choice.  Their remains will be cremated, then sent to
their country of origin, and their next of kin sent a bill for
services rendered, plus airfare.

What does Sweden do for American tourists who get sick in
Sweden?  What about American college students (foreign exchange
students) studying in Sweden?  What about American undoceumented
workers (illegal aliens) in Sweden?  What about homeless Americans
in Sweden?  What rights to they have?  Does Sweden tell Americans
to go back home and die?  Does Sweden fix them up, then send them
a bill that is too expensive to be paid?  Well, I guess it would
be okay if the American had insurance with deep pockets ...

I guess the only real right that anybody has, anywhere, is the
right to die.  But then, if that is the case, why is suicide illegal?

Hmmm.  Something is not quite right in this world ...

 BF> Anyway, if you think I'm more than usual absent from fidonet, now you know
 BF> why.

Do we?  Do we really?  Will we ever really ever know?
I mean, one can never be too sure of anything in this world.
Or the next ...

--Lee

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