Psycho-Babble Politics Thread 1109556

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hand sanitiser

Posted by alexandra_k on April 11, 2020, at 18:00:14

There were protocols.

There were protocols of when hand hygine was supposed to be performed.

Australia had this online video thing that you were supposed to watch and complete as part of your accreditation.

Like the way the University does the plagarism quiz before anyone starts University.

So they can prevent our completion later, I suppose. Or, you know, pretend they have never heard of you when an overseas party asks them if your Degree is Legitimate or if you just printed it up yourself on your printer back home.

Since they reckon our hospitals are pretty deserted... People arent' rocking up to the A and E...

Hand sanitiser use should have gone down. Yes. It's a no brainer. Less patients. Less consultations. Less hand sanitiser use.

Only that's not the case...

I think that is why it is hard to make sense of the people crying out for PPE... They never even cared about washing their hands, before...

But that's what makes it next to impossble to do elective surgeries (without saying 'hai' to a 'hosptial asosociated infection)... In the public system where there are so many people in the hospital.. The managers and administrators want to have their meetings... Dangle dangle dangly tags everywhere. Srubs in front of the patients. Scrubs walking to the shops. Scrubs in the sushi shop. Dangly tag dangle dangle dangle. Scrubs back into the hospital...

Uniforms generally.

People laundering their uniforms at home with their family's washing.

The whole system...

Overcrowded healthcare workers. Walking about in groups. Gangs of them...

A lot of our 'essential service' people are finding themselves out of jobs, right now.

They will say 'we will need them in teh re-build'. But I'm not so sure. I'm not so sure we are wanting to head back there.

They say they were working as doctors or nurses or whatever overseas. And maybe they were. Or maybe they weren't. Maybe their overeseas accreditation is not acknowledged here or maybe they don' thave overseas accreditation.

I'm not sure out accreditation is worth working towarsd. BY that I mean to say I don't know that it is something that can be worked towarsd. By that I mean to say I don' tknow that it is something that is intended to reward natural ability and hard work. I imagine it is just a hoop or step that actually plays no role and the truth of it is that they just choose the biggest suck ups who are just like them or actually they choose the kids who they have leverage over so they can get them doign things like... All the work for none of the money while teaching them nothing much... It is unclear to me that there is anything here...

I do get that if there is it needs to protect itself from the rabble and disorganisation that threatens to swamp it...

But where is it?

Why don't I get to contribute to things that are meaningful?

Are they blinded by their kids?

 

Re: hand sanitiser

Posted by alexandra_k on April 11, 2020, at 18:03:42

In reply to hand sanitiser, posted by alexandra_k on April 11, 2020, at 18:00:14

And they go 'well at least we taught our kids to wash their hands'.

And, well, yes, that's probably true.

But that's setting the bar pretty low, don't you think?

And the Australian video was 'clever' (all the movements that must be performed) but perhaps not very 'good' (the point being to rub the sanitiser into the surfaces which takes time and shouldn't be rushed).

 

small business

Posted by alexandra_k on April 11, 2020, at 19:00:54

In reply to Re: hand sanitiser, posted by alexandra_k on April 11, 2020, at 18:03:42

And the big businesses are the only businesses that the government will allow to operate.

The major supermarket chains remained open -- and there wasn't really anyplace else for people to spend their money.

So spend their money, they did, into the major supermarket chains.

We had 16 year olds working in supermarkets re-stocking supplies and facing customers etc. Considering themselves lucky they had any job at all.

The supermarket chains were supplying face masks and PPE to their employers.

Initially, at least.

I guess the Warehouse, too, then. They can say 'we brought up all the PPE before this precisely so we could continue to operate during an epidemic. We did the things we needed to do to ensure worker safety'.

So now the government can't really close them down...

But the government would like for, uh...

Policemen to have masks.

Nurses.

And where were all the DHB supplies?

Well...

They only hire people who won't use supplies. That's business as usual.

They only hire people that (they can convince themsleves) wouldn't be able to competently use supplies, even if they were available.

Somehow that's supposed to make it better.

I do feel bad for the small businesses. The corner stores. The local fruitshops.

To be fair, they were allowed to open... After some time. After it was clearer what protocols to follow with respect to one in - one out and how many in the store and people spacing themselves outside in cues.

Cafes's is hard...

I see people walking by (I live across from Auckland City Hospital) with their dangly tags and... More worryingly... What suspiciously looks like take-away coffee.

People should have a lot of time on their hands to study for their exams.

My schooling would have gone very differently indeed if I had have had the internet access that kids have today.

I would have discovered Khan Academy likely when I was around 7. That would have opened up a world of mathematics to me, if I was allowed to work at my own pace and progress when I was ready to progress.

Instead of (what is always the way) I get to do hundreds of problems (you think you're so smart!) and then they jump on the errors and berate me and that's the reason why I am not allowed to progres (with everyone else, even). That's why I must be held back.

I would have been able to explore different things. Robotics. Biology. Who knows what would have taken off for me.

I think physiology and molecular biology. The more molecular biology side of biochemistry.

I would have discovered about A & P examinations. I would have discovered about College Entry Examinations. I would likely have started working through the prep. It would have given me something to work towards. Helped me focus. Helped me measure my progression.

I would have done the work. Because it seems like a system that rewards the work. Whether it does or not in fact it gets people working. People with the capacity and motivation.

And that's where a chunk of our people went. Overseas. The hardworkign and talented kids of the rich people. Took off for their US college placements. The ones who stay here... Are ones who did not work towards / did not have the capacity to do well under that system.

We have a 'quick quick quick quick as you can' system of inheritence on the places, here. So people like me aren't supposed to be able to tell how not very bright and how basically inept so very many of he people picked to do med actually are. But of course, many of them were simply picked to be 'other halves'. There's that.

So, there is no reason at all they want me.

Because that's what it's about, hey? Increasing the inequality and imploding the earth by their own stupidity. Onwards ho.


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