It’s not just a case of ambulances getting through blocked traffic – ambulances refill at the same pumps as the rest of us. Elderly people trying to get to hospitals also need fuel for their cars. So do the staff working in hospitals. Public transport links dont often service suburbs / rural areas / accomadate hospital staff working night shifts etc.
There is no effective way of blocking everyone except people trying to access healthcare. It’s bullshit and the protesters have made their dumb point.
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We focus a lot on the patient not being able to get to the hospital, but shout out to all the nurses, doctors, porters, cleaning staff, security staff in hospitals who are having difficulty getting to their jobs. It must be super stressful.
Michael-flatly on
And another thing, if the gov does cut taxation on fuel (which they can’t really because of EU law and carbon commitments), where the fuck do the protesters think we’ll get money for the things those taxes fund?
Funding cuts for rural hospitals and services that don’t see as many patients is where. Services that look after the protesters own families.
We can’t just magic up more money
Slubbe on
How many healthcare groups, emergency response services And hospitals need to tell these people they are actively and intentionally blocking emergency, and critical access to medical care?
Stuck in traffic earlier saw them open their checkpoint to allow a friends jeep through down the motorway (i heard them stuck 3m away) and closed back up
You are delaying ambulance response times with traffic and diversions. You are reducing ambulance availability as they are on job twice as long per pt, you are disrupting elective but urgent outpatient care which will back up the whole already fucked system. You are preventing homecare and palliative care nurse home visits. If you get to hospital you have delayed the staff getting there and their ability to safely handover care
If you are manning a blockade you have directly reduced at least one persons chance of survival a lot(that i’m personally aware of, there will be more)
If you support these protests as they stand currently you better have some good reasons why the most vulnerable must suffer for your profit margins
The millionaire tax dodging animal abuser doesnt care if people die, he said as much on prime time last night.
No point in appealing to people like thatÂ
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give_me_the_push on
I’m slap bang in the middle of a set of nights in North Dublin and I nearly fell asleep at the wheel twice this trying to get back home
Throw1awayd on
My wife is a home care assistant and has had awful trouble trying to get to her patients in rosslare. It’s not on, this shouldn’t continue. These people have dementia and cancer and all manner of other illnesses and they need care.
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The calls shouldn’t be necessary, these dickheads need to know better
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It’s not just a case of ambulances getting through blocked traffic – ambulances refill at the same pumps as the rest of us. Elderly people trying to get to hospitals also need fuel for their cars. So do the staff working in hospitals. Public transport links dont often service suburbs / rural areas / accomadate hospital staff working night shifts etc.
There is no effective way of blocking everyone except people trying to access healthcare. It’s bullshit and the protesters have made their dumb point.
We focus a lot on the patient not being able to get to the hospital, but shout out to all the nurses, doctors, porters, cleaning staff, security staff in hospitals who are having difficulty getting to their jobs. It must be super stressful.
And another thing, if the gov does cut taxation on fuel (which they can’t really because of EU law and carbon commitments), where the fuck do the protesters think we’ll get money for the things those taxes fund?
Funding cuts for rural hospitals and services that don’t see as many patients is where. Services that look after the protesters own families.
We can’t just magic up more money
How many healthcare groups, emergency response services And hospitals need to tell these people they are actively and intentionally blocking emergency, and critical access to medical care?
Stuck in traffic earlier saw them open their checkpoint to allow a friends jeep through down the motorway (i heard them stuck 3m away) and closed back up
You are delaying ambulance response times with traffic and diversions. You are reducing ambulance availability as they are on job twice as long per pt, you are disrupting elective but urgent outpatient care which will back up the whole already fucked system. You are preventing homecare and palliative care nurse home visits. If you get to hospital you have delayed the staff getting there and their ability to safely handover care
If you are manning a blockade you have directly reduced at least one persons chance of survival a lot(that i’m personally aware of, there will be more)
If you support these protests as they stand currently you better have some good reasons why the most vulnerable must suffer for your profit margins
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The millionaire tax dodging animal abuser doesnt care if people die, he said as much on prime time last night.
No point in appealing to people like thatÂ
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I’m slap bang in the middle of a set of nights in North Dublin and I nearly fell asleep at the wheel twice this trying to get back home
My wife is a home care assistant and has had awful trouble trying to get to her patients in rosslare. It’s not on, this shouldn’t continue. These people have dementia and cancer and all manner of other illnesses and they need care.
The calls shouldn’t be necessary, these dickheads need to know better