[Newsbot]

Title: Seniors' home confines 94-year-old blind woman to bedbug-infested room for 2 weeks
Category: Health
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2019-11-04 06:49:02
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

My questions are; why does 95 year old grandma have a daughter that looks 40, and who leaves this 95 year old blind lady alone for 2 weeks at Christmas???

[N_Fiddledog]

That story is horrifying.

Whoever made the decision to lock that poor old lady in that bug-infested room to be a "blood buffet" should be locked in it themselves - forever.

And the daughter...

She doesn't get to pretend to give a fuck if her 95 year old mother is alone on the other side of the country during Christmas.

And it happened in Chilliwack. My God! We should go down there with pitchforks and tar and feathers.

Good on the grunt workers there for blowing the whistle though. They're this week's heroes.

[Freakinoldguy]

What kind of sick scum would do something like this? I pray to God that the assholes responsible for this inhuman and illegal treatment get everything they so richly deserve.

[Public_Domain]

capitalism.exe continues to work exactly as intended

don't know the daighters story but y'all spoiled shits have been in the money so long y'all think it's fucking free to do things like move someone across the fucking country. oh oh christmas. delusional af

people usually end up in places like this because of money in the first place.

so sick about hearing cases like this. how can people look at this and say, "the profit motive has the best intentions here"?

[Thanos]

^ look up Ceaucescu's orphanges as a stellar example of how vulnerable patients were treated under communism

capitalism. communism. there is no contest to determine which is worse. both suck, totally and EQUALLY.

[Public_Domain]

Thanos Thanos:

^ look up Ceaucescu's orphanges as a stellar example of how vulnerable patients were treated under communism

capitalism. communism. there is no contest to determine which is worse. both suck, totally and EQUALLY.

a tragedy, done in the name of "paying off foreign debt".

trust me, i think that's pretty fucking awful too.

[Thanos]

Romania was only in deep shit because of "foreign debt"? and not because of the crappy and inhumane way their communist first family ran the place for forty-plus years ? yeah, right.

maybe someday you'll finally get around to admitting that there was precious little of anything to admire in the former soviet states. just as much insincere and shallow flag-waving at public events as you'd find from the tool-bags that go to MAGA rallies. at this stage you're kind of in the same sort of denial the right-wing loons around here engage in, when they say idiotic things like a halfway-decent Scandinavian welfare state is identical to Maduro's nascent murder-realm in Venezuela. the debate isn't advanced forward in any worthwhile manner when denialist tactics from the extremes dominate the discussion. "social welfare isn't the same thing as hardcore communism" is something that both segments of goofs need to write on the blackboard about five thousand times until the concept finally sinks in.

[Public_Domain]

the policy of "fuck or we'll tax you" sounds hilarious in theory lol

i don't think banning abortions really count as a pillar of communism,
nor allowing basic services to fall apart in order to pay back global capital

as opposed to this which is just what people think the social-darwanism of capitalism demands; the strong survive and the unproductive weak get left in a room for weeks so the conglomerate of nursing homes can pinch a few more cents in its competition with the other conglomerates of nursing homes doing the same shit all over this fucking country, today, this year, Canada

i thought our country was rich? what's our excuse for such conditions

but yeah ok, fuck 1980s romania i guess

[Public_Domain]

the nice thing about decades and decades of red-baiting psychos associating any helpful governmental action with "socialism" is the kids today think it's the tits

anyway i love our normal country where challenging a problem will just get whatabouted to a dead state

i'm certain we can find a middle ground here. who should be ceausescu'd?

[DrCaleb]

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i'm certain we can find a middle ground here. who should be ceausescu'd?

By "ceausescu'd", do you mean who should be warehoused in appalling conditions, or hung by the neck in the village square as an example to others?

Because the former happens all the time. Usually with the severely disabled or comatose patients. They get stool hardeners one day, so they are constipated, then laxatives the next and they get to sit for a few hours on the toilet while the overworked and underpaid TFW "nurses" attend other people with a severe case of the poops.

This lady might just be the latest example, but she is far from unique. I'm more for the latter definition of Ceausescu'd, in that case.

[N_Fiddledog]

The advantage of our system over the system operating under the ideology preferred by PD (think China to North Korea) is you can complain about outrages such as the one described in the OP without having to worry about getting the 3 o'clock visit from the secret police.

There will always be those who take advantage of any system but in ours if you see a story inviting justified outrage such as the one in the OP you can expect something be done.

There was a time when one considered the responsibility of family a priority. It was a better time. Family will offer care for each other in a way governments won't so the idea a 94 year old family member should be close enough to a family member that they can watch over her situation was taken for granted.

At one time, not just at Christmas but especially at Christmas administrators of an old folks home would not dare lock a 94 year old in a bed-bug infested room to be a "blood buffet." They'd have to worry about a son or a daughter walking in and after being sufficiently horrified complaining to authorities.

In the system PD would like us living under those authorities would be more likely to send an "official" or "officials" to visit the son or daughter if they dared complain.

[Public_Domain]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

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i'm certain we can find a middle ground here. who should be ceausescu'd?

By "ceausescu'd", do you mean who should be warehoused in appalling conditions, or hung by the neck in the village square as an example to others?

Because the former happens all the time. Usually with the severely disabled or comatose patients. They get stool hardeners one day, so they are constipated, then laxatives the next and they get to sit for a few hours on the toilet while the overworked and underpaid TFW "nurses" attend other people with a severe case of the poops.

This lady might just be the latest example, but she is far from unique. I'm more for the latter definition of Ceausescu'd, in that case.

I meant more, a hasty show trial followed quickly by dragging the perpetrators out back, tying them up, lining them up to a wall, and letting the volunteers fire until dead. then footage of the justice being played on national television

[Public_Domain]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

The advantage of our system over the system operating under the ideology preferred by PD (think China to North Korea) is you can complain about outrages such as the one described in the OP without having to worry about getting the 3 o'clock visit from the secret police.

lmfao wrong. there are still "knocks on the door", even in Canada. Y'all forget the bullshit that happened with the G20 and the Olympics? The preemptively arrested folks. They had a thousand people in a warehouse in Toronto. what a joke. Leftists are on lists. we can say what we want but it's definitely not in the interests of our health to do so. "suicide" for those leading protests. lmfao, so naive and safe.

$1:

There will always be those who take advantage of any system but in ours if you see a story inviting justified outrage such as the one in the OP you can expect something be done.

nothing is done until the media gets a hold of it. then, as soon as the media forgets...

$1:

There was a time when one considered the responsibility of family a priority. It was a better time. Family will offer care for each other in a way governments won't so the idea a 94 year old family member should be close enough to a family member that they can watch over her situation was taken for granted.

"priority"... think of it like this. Have nan live with you, both of you are destitute and homeless. work interupted by the common health struggles of a geriatric. total misery for all involved. Or have nan live in the damn home and so you get to at least live in a maple bug infested apartmemt and keep your job.

do you not understand how precarious most canadians' lives are? y'all are exceptions with your hundred k a year salaries and whimsical travels all over hells half acre. most of the folks in this country can't get across the other side of the province without fucking their lives up.

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At one time, not just at Christmas but especially at Christmas administrators of an old folks home would not dare lock a 94 year old in a bed-bug infested room to be a "blood buffet." They'd have to worry about a son or a daughter walking in and after being sufficiently horrified complaining to authorities.

damn. that sounds really nice actually. what was that time? before or after the sanitoriums and residential schools?

$1:

In the system PD would like us living under those authorities would be more likely to send an "official" or "officials" to visit the son or daughter if they dared complain.

A just society would execute those who run a home like this.

Folks should be cared by folks like the whistleblowers in this case. Bleeding hearts. Their ability to provide care shouldn't be choked by their manager's greed, nor bureaucratic forces trying to make the GDP look good. Just take care of the god damn seniors FFS

[DrCaleb]

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A just society would execute those who run a home like this.

Everyone disses China for it's communism, but some guy kills a few babies because of Melamine in the formula, and he's put to the head of the organ donations line.