As per usual the anti maid crowd made up imaginary numbers for the “study”
Uggh. I was talking to a person who said MAID was forced on their family member. I was like WTF and explained they need consent, so they said their family member went in for an exploratory surgery and then the family all got called in because the docs said he had only hours left.
They show up and the person is not hooked up to machines or IV etc, and they asks why. The answer is because they are dying. Family freaks out and demands IV, and other remedies to get the person back to health.
I’m like OK, so all is good? Their reply was no the family member died 5 days later due to cancer.
SMH. So you put that person through an extra week of hell.
Also what was happening: that’s not MAID anyway if a person just fades away from dying by refusing medical tratment, its not a dose to end your life.
This is literally a fake scenario based on a bunch of fake numbers that was circulated on twitter.
It’s basically propaganda…
I am getting so sick of alt-right nutcases making up stories that they themselves would rather have a leading role in.
We all know most of the alt-right is just itching to unalive anyone not like them.
I too have lost all decorum in such exchanges and simply reply “Oh, well Ok then, liar” in those (fortunately rare) exchanges.
This article is trash.
Yea it’s not the best. but it’s calling out lies so I figured it was worth sharing.
Because it refutes a bunch of lies? Is that why it’s trash?
I think it’s trash because it starts with the “story” being “someone said this outrageous thing on a podcast”. Then the “both sides” counter argument is from actual medical professionals and people who have a clue.
Typically, journalism frames an issue and then covers some counterpoints to give some nuance. This time, they (bewilderingly) accept conspiracy theory nonsense as their story (when it shouldn’t have been written in the first place), then the sanity comes in as though it’s a counter point.
It has a low journalism factor. When one writes an article, it’s important to deliver to the reader certain facts right away; who’s involved, setting, etc.
This article starts with “a podcast” and then doesn’t say which one. It then goes on for a while not giving the reader who isn’t privy to the background any relevant context. So we’re left having to re-read the whole thing twice just to parse what the fuck it’s about.
Trash writing.
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I seriously think everything on Twitter is bots now.
The bots are talking, but there are still credulous fools listening.
Speak for yourself…
One of my relatives worked for his provincial government health care department some years ago. He told me once that smokers gave the biggest contribution to the health care system because although they tended to be expensive in the last five years or so of their lives, they usually died young enough that they used less money than they put in.
So if they really wanted to save money, they would encourage us to take up smoking tobacco again.
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