In the last post, macron nationalism, I talked about the obvious agenda across the western world of flooding these countries with migrants. Diversity can obviously be interesting in terms of an urban melting pot and so on, and so I’m not going into that issue as a whole, but regarding the actions of a nation’s leaders, obviously their entire purpose should be to serve the best interests of the nation, its soundness as a functioning social system.
If one is amenable to a large influx of immigrants, particularly to the point of significant demographical change of society, whatever about the desire ability or not of the agenda, the sane and necessary base from which this ongoing process Could be justified is that the nation as is is structurally sound functioning smoothly in how it is dealing with the existing population. And then on top of this soundness, extra pressures such as increased Human numbers Of perhaps very different cultural backgrounds can be added, as it were, And not stabilize that sound system.
In my country Ireland’s case we have a major housing crisis, And where things like rent prices have gone crazy . And then on top of this, unprecedented levels of immigrants are intentionally being brought in With seeming no regard whatsoever both the public’s desires it’s just simply being imposed from above, and this same pattern and obvious agenda is going on in very, very many countries in the west. So So here in Ireland regarding this hugely important issue of housing, we have a dysfunctional system, and extra pressure to this dysfunction is intentionally being added to by the government.
This is undeniable but pretty tediously obvious, and the real reason I’m spurred to writing this though is because yesterday in our town’s medical center my much younger sister, Aimee who has spina bifida was told by the doctor that we would have to go to the Accident and Emergency unit in the Cork University Hospital (CUH) to see, or hopefully rule out, if a painful problem in her knee was due to infection in which case it could be very serious. It would more likely prove not to be, but it couldn’t be ignored, and if infected it would have to be treated very quickly.
So the CUH is by far the major hospital of Cork, which is the second major city of the Republic of Ireland, and this hospital also cover a very wide area beyond the city. So myself and Aimee arrived at the hospital at about half five, sent through whatever initial filtering things went fairly smoothly at her blood pressure checked and gave blood about half seven and then we had to wait for the results to come back and then see a doctor.
We were told it might take about two hours to get the blood results, and because the hospital was busy, perhaps as much as another two hours to see a doctor. So, not of course that we were thinking in anything remotely like these terms, we should get a good firsthand look here at how well a very important aspect of a modern, prosperous, liberal society is functioning and how well served it is by its leaders and functionaries.
As close to 1 AM the room where we were, about six people had been waiting in for now about 4 to 5 hours each, and finally one by one people started to be called out. The first one called out was a man being checked for I think sepsis, which can be very quickly fatal. Obviously, accident and emergencies will cover some quite serious or potentially serious emergencies. So anyway at last. We were on the move! Unfortunately, it turned out that’s all we were doing - moving.We had been moved to a different larger room rather than going to see any doctor or specialist. There are lots of other people still waiting to see a doctor, and beside us was a man in his 70s who had arrived into the hospital at the same time as myself and Aimee shortly after 5 PM, in his case with troubling chest pains.
So we all continued to wait, sitting in our seats occasionally dropping off into groggy sleep for short periods. At about 4 AM in conversation with the people around us from what we could see not one person in the room of I guess 25 people had yet seen a doctor, and neither had anyone told us anything about what was going on. It seemed we were just waiting there pointlessly.
I went and asked a nurse at their station what was going on, if anything was actually happening, because it certainly didn’t look like anything was. Were we just sitting there for hours through the night for no reason. She struck me as very genuine, but Was stuck in this stupid, embarrassing situation of having to explain that there was one doctor on in total for the night, and was presumably busy with the most serious cases - who had probably never been in our room to begin with. And yes, there was little chance of any of those waiting being seen during the rest of the night until 8 AM when other doctors would come on duty. At least on the back it is Aimee was able to get onto a trolley bed at about 4:30 AM from out of her wheelchair to get a bit of sleep.
I think it was close to 10 AM that Aimee eventually got to see a doctor, who was very pleasant and efficient, and who sent her for x-rays. At least things went as expected from here - and we were out by around midday. From talking to one nurse, this is not out of the ordinary. This is now the norm for evening and night time at the accident emergency unit of the biggest hospital in the Republic of Ireland outside of Dublin. She said it’s even worse to a friend of her who works in Limerick Hospital, and from a conversation with someone a while ago, he said a young woman died recently in Limerick from sepsis while hospital, herself and her father begging for treatment but not getting any, and so she died in there.
So anyway, that’s the modern well run country in action. We are well equipped to deal with all incomers. You might think if for example, you have a scaffolding put up and it’s shaky and not safe what you shouldn’t be doing is adding lots more pressure to it. But it seems you’d be wrong.
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