!960: BBC & ITV only. 1964: arrival of BBC2 - which came on the new-fangled 625 lines!
How time flies.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Can't really divine who else he might mean tbh R, but how to decide, where do you draw the line... ballot or 'death panel, enforced euthanasia for those requiring too many drugs perhaps...but how much is too much...or just go with an age limit, seems a bit arbitrary, inhumane.
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According to David Attenborough, and I tend to believe he's a trustworthy and clever chap, all the arable land available on earth (without even more deforestation) is currently being farmed. Fresh drinking water is also a massive issue.
So I wouldn't say there is massive scope for population expansion, even if we could somehow employ all these new people in a post fossil fuel driven world.
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Universal Credit. It'll be fine.
https://www.gov.uk/apply-universal-credit
Is this thread becoming another candidate for being moved to the Bear Pit?
Still can't see how many self employed people would manage to find work under the current lockdown situation.
They are both a big part of the problem yes, certainly growing crops instead of rearing animals for meat is far more land efficient and water wastage is woefully the world over.
But watch his documentary "A life on our planet", it is interesting, frightening, thought provoking and quite beautiful all at the same time. He does at the end suggest ways we can improve things, but not so that we can carry on with ever growing population expansion, just to save things as they are now.
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Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hang about a minute. Where did I say kill all the oldies FFS.
BTW I am 60 next month, but if I am living with a debilitating illness in 2 months time with little hope of recovery, then I would like to at least have an opinion as to how I would like to spend my remaining days. Currently this opinion is not available to me.
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Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
So perhaps the disabled, the old, the infirm, those with underlying conditions, are all an intolerable drain on medical and financial resources which would be better used to help the fit and able. If thats not what is being implied please explain what is?
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
That’s one way of looking at it. Another way is that we simply have to many mouths to feed and that it’s only through modern irrigation, GM, factory farming practices, pest control, etc is that we can feed the billions that already exist. By increasing the population you become more dependant upon technologies and will cause even more damage to the environment.
Also, you need to define the “we” - lots of countries do not eat “to much animal protein” nor do they “waste water”, however many of these countries already suffer from starvation.
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don’t forget that Universal Credit is paid from Taxation. If people are not spending or earning then they are not paying tax. In which case the government will be unable to pay it out. They could of course borrow the money, but then all loans have to be repaid at some point. So not necessarily a problem for the boomers and millennials, but a problem for the generation X’s
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
This isn’t correct.
My Father (who is 70), is to all intents and purposes terminally ill, and he received his letter saying he should consider shielding for 3 months to avoid catching Corona Virus.
It did also state that the Government/NHS completely recognise that people in his situation may choose to exercise their right to go outside, whilst maintaining social distancing rules, rather than spend a huge chunk of his remaining life confined to his own home.
We are still human, we still have free will, even during this time.
There was quite a lot of confusing messaging coming out from the Govt about this to start with, around making sure "essential" work could continue. That messaging has softened significantly and it seems that anyone who can't work at home can go to their work as long as they can do so safely.
The rules around construction have been clarified and both commercial and residential works are permitted to continue.
Of course, whether customers want the workers to visit is another matter altogether.
Some parts of this forum make pretty grim reading - and I don’t just mean this thread. ‘Who should live or die, the old and disabled don’t count, what should I invest in once businesses recover. Ooh, will more Rolex become available?’ Not a very pretty picture.
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What has the shape of the government’s support package got to do with whether I bought a watch?
Huh? This isn’t just about me Mick. It’s about electricians, plumbers, photographers, etc etc
Just so we are clear - my income WILL survive this as I am able to do a considerable amount of my role from home and via e-comms. I am far more concerned about my clients who have 50k+ income who are being hung out to dry here. So yes I will moan about the package if it means my clients could lose everything because the package offered is fundamentally skewed and unfair to them. Does that clarify my stance ?
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Sorry, yes if they have 16K in savings. However they can claim something called new style JSA which is unemployment benefit based on NI contributions if they paid NI for the two tax years ending Apr 2019? There is also a similar sickness benefit if that situation applies. Not Brewsters, but something?
Please please Eddie remove this post...like the last one it's getting to the my dick is bigger than your dick if you don't agree with me.
Should be in the Bear Pit along with all the same sad posters...
Let's get G & D back to what it should be.
Wow, why should I bother, you seem quite happy to infer and suggest what being implied to suit your own narrative.
However to attempt to provide some clarity and few questions for you.
a) do you accept that medical resources (people, drugs, technology, etc ) are finite?
b) do you accept that no one can live for ever?
c) do you accept that quality of life is more important than longevity?
d) do you accept that people should have the right to determine their own death?
Now the given the answers to a) and b) are absolute. This only leaves c) and d). Personally my responses to both would be yes. Yours however might not.
So for clarity, I am not suggesting we “kill the old”, the handicapped, the infirm, etc, or whatever BS you are peddling today.
What I am suggesting that we actually show some humanity and allow some to make their own decision regarding their treatment and that medical science takes a step back and looks at the impact of treatment to the quality and longevity of people’s lives. Plus treatment needs to be more about quality rather than longevity. I have witnessed first hand people going through numerous rounds of chemo and radiation treatment (which has destroyed both them and their families physically and mentally) for the sake of a few very painful extra months. At no point was the patient/there families are given a choice.
What we actually need is more honestly, more humanity and for patients/families to fully understand the implications of the treatments offered and the impact this will have on the individuals quality of life. The problem with this is that it needs a grown up conversation and unfortunately we do not seem capable of having one.
Strangely people often talk about never wanting to make their pets suffer, yet they seem unable to do the same for their loved ones. I wonder why that is?
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Doctors don't have the power to compel patients to accept any treatment offered, they should work in partnership with each other.
https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guida...p-and-teamwork
I have some recent experience of what constitutes "quality of life".
My mother had a massive stroke, lost 30% of her brain function, and went into a stroke unit. Fortunately she had written a living will, drafted by a respected firm of lawyers, and so we knew that, in her circumstances, she wanted to have all sustenance and medical intervention withdrawn.
However, the hospital legal team looked at her living will and said that, regretably, it wasn't valid in her circumstances since the will didn't stipulate her precise condition. For example, unconscious but breathing unaided. Nor could the clinicians be certain she wouldn't improve to a degree that would constitute a quality of life as she would have determined. They couldn't explain what that would look like, and obviously nor could she. But as an example, bed bound, feeding through a tube and partial consciousness but smiling at grandchildren could easily constitute quality of life for some.
Perhap most telling, with a patient in my mother's predicament, nobody could say if she could hear or not, and whether, if she could, listening to the radio might qualify as quality of life.
Others would certainly have a clear idea of what that phrase means to them but, given what I now know, it's impossible to put every possible permutation of quality of life into written form.
The point being "quality of life" is a nebulous and highly subjective area and, now, when I hear fit and healthy people discussing it as a remedy for others I am not filled with confidence.
One last thing; after the funeral my Dad, who survived my mother, fired the respected firm of lawyers.
You are absolutely correct, when a patient is unable to communicate, it is impossible to assess QoL. It's also very difficult to get the prognosis right. Everyone seems to think that doctors "know everything", but that is a very long way from the truth.
There was a very thoughtful episode of Star Trek (TOS) which examined this.
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